Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - WTF Are The Flames Doing With Connor Zary?? | BB Clips

Episode Date: November 17, 2025

Boomer and Rhett get into a conversation about Connor Zary, who’s now buried on the fourth line playing center — and the guys can’t figure out what the Flames are doing. Zary has shown real promise at the NHL level, but injuries and inconsistent usage have stalled his progress. What’s the plan here? Why isn’t he getting a real opportunity? The boys break down the situation and what Calgary should be doing with one of their most talented young players.Video Link: https://youtu.be/_Ly486j_uDY#nhl #nhlshorts #nhlplayoffs #nhlpredictions #nhlhockey #nhlpicks #stanleycup #stanleycupfinal #calgaryflames CHECK OUT OUR STUFF ⬇️BARN BURNER MERCHhttps://nationgear.ca/collections/shirts/FlamesnationBARN BURNER SHORTS https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLj_bcGtvvo-cW2DHEDZ6dEO5ePDmlhZc9&si=jo8iNGxT4ImhS2Y8📲 Follow us:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fnbarnburner/X (Twitter): https://x.com/barnburnerfn?lang=en🎧 Listen on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/barn-burner-boomer-pinder-with-rhett-warrener/id1648562889Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Mc6Qd5U22R2zbMlQ7RxIiProducer: Jack Haverstock Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Connor Zerry has zero goals and one point in his last 15 games. He was one of only two Flames Forwards without a shot on goal tonight. Now I, that was on, that was two days ago. Among all flames forwards, Zeri ranks last by far in shot attempts per 60 minutes. And his second last to Ryan Lomburg in XG slash 60. I got to get that on a T-shirt. You want that on a hoodie?

You kind of got me. I'm second to last in XG slash 60. Yeah. Expected. I mean, expected goals for 60. It's, I have a hard time looking at someone like, and I guess I'm a zary guy, so it's, I'm going to be biased. But it's like a lot of these things.

It's like with Uyger, it's with zary. Sharon Golvich obviously is different. but on this team and how challenge they are as a group to look at a young player who is playing on the wing and on the setter and on the fourth line and say your offenses I don't look at zary and say you're why you're a big part of why this team is struggling to score it would help if he was but I'm not can't play him as a and I don't think there are four lines

but you can't play him as a fourth line guy and say produced for us I know I he's moved around within games and he's not always been on the fourth line. It's not been, it is not a good year for production for him, obviously. Or anyone else. But it is, I, I'm not going to look big picture at a young player's potential as an NHL player, pin and pin it on this season and how you do with in goals and assists and shots. It's, I just don't think it's fair. I think he's coming off a season where he showed flashes of being really good,

and then he got his ass injured again. Twice, right? Twice. So it's easy for us to think, well, he's healthy and good. Well, maybe you are, but maybe you're still a little bit off. Maybe you're on the fourth line. Maybe you're not. Maybe you're bouncing around too much.

Maybe you're, I don't know. But you tell me who. who's been so damn dynamic offensively that we're mad at Zary for not putting a point. Yeah. It is. It's one goal, one assist in 16 games. He's getting 13 and a half minutes in ice.

He's got 19 shots. I just, it's, you just got to be patient. It's going to have to be patient. It kind of goes back. I'm happy to be patient with him for some reason. I know.

And because we would argue with Pinder, which is odd, but he was kind of, what is he you don't want to when it came down to what are you going to pay the guy i feel like you and i have always kind of been a little bit more gracious and how much space we get him but he picks oh we all do we all pick and choose our fights but he picks about like he fails to remember his stronger opinion of him when he was playing well a year ago when we were sitting in a pub watching the game and he had good results and was offensively driving the play oh he's hurt again

Okay. Yeah. Maybe he's a hurt bag. Maybe, yeah. He is, you know what he is? He's a long list of players on the forwards for the flames that aren't that doing that well. That aren't living up to expectation. Fairby, Frost, like.

Yeah. There's no passing grade for anyone. What the hell are we talking about? There's zero passing grade for anyone. Even Wolf, you know who's the passing grade? the guy going into the year we were going, oh, God, we can't put him in that coolly.