With tonight's game in mind, I think is time to set our sights on the best goaltending prospect we currently have, the BSZ. Did you guys know he was preparing this summer in Czech Republic alongside Rittich? I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere around here, but there was an article in Czech media few months ago:
https://www.idnes.cz/hokej/nhl/david...485899_nhl_ald
Don't have time to make a full translastion at the moment, but long story short, is about Rittich and Sharks' goalie prospect Josef Korenar and their summer camp with HC Jihlava goaltending coach Jan Drsata. Both goalies are Jihlava natives so it makes a lot of sense, but surprisingly, they were joined by Zag this summer. No words about whose idea was that, Korenar only said Zag is going to play in Stockton next season so they will be seeing each other a lot.
My personal take is that was an idea of Flames management, apparently they like how Rittich works out during the off-season and thought it would benefit Zag as well. Also Rittich can give him some good advices how to handle his stimt in the AHL and develop into a real NHL goalie. If that's true, they are probably holding Zag to a high standard and he might have a bright future with the org.