[News] Flames recall Zayne Parekh

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Weird take. You infer that a few interviews where he rubbed you the wrong way have any bearing on how his team mates see him.

I don’t think you are very self aware. You have nothing in common with him or his team mates. Neither do I, but I understand that.

Most of us should stick to our lanes. You know how he makes you feel, and that’s it. Stop there.

Terrible take but nothing new there from that person.

Locker morale will not take a hit it’s probably high. The older guys love infection of youth. Look around the league and our Flames when Pelts got the call. Especially a player of Zayne calibre.

I bet they are pumped even if a bean gets bumped out.

[musth]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Rhett said that the players in 2004 were begging for Dion in the playoffs, they wanted the help.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! I always wondered why he didn't get a game or two when it was clear we were decimated

[FBI]

I don't mind the number 89 for Zayne, it has a certain je ne sais quoi about it

[SemicolonD]

Originally Posted by musth

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! I always wondered why he didn't get a game or two when it was clear we were decimated

Rhett actually went as far as to suggest that they would've won the cup if Dion got to play.

Crazy to hear directly from someone who went through it, sad to imagine what we missed out on lol.

[BigThief]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Rhett said that the players in 2004 were begging for Dion in the playoffs, they wanted the help.

Yeah, that blueline was decimated by injuries; Lydman went down game three vs the Canucks, Gauthier game six. Warrener missed games 3 and 4 vs the Wings and Brennan Evans came in for 30 seconds in one of the games, five minutes in the other. Commodore went down in the finals and Lydman came back in the lineup but was clearly hurt. Regehr left game six with a cast on his left foot and Sutter told the media he wouldn't play game 7 but he did.

[FlamesAddiction]

Yeah, they went through 9 defensemen and practically all of them were playing injured.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Yeah, they went through 9 defensemen and practically all of them were playing injured.

The entire Dcore was being held together with duct tape

[Buff]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Rhett said that the players in 2004 were begging for Dion in the playoffs, they wanted the help.

Originally Posted by musth

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck! I always wondered why he didn't get a game or two when it was clear we were decimated

Originally Posted by SemicolonD

Rhett actually went as far as to suggest that they would've won the cup if Dion got to play.

Crazy to hear directly from someone who went through it, sad to imagine what we missed out on lol.

Dion didn't sign his first contract until September 2004 so he wasn't eligible to play.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Many of the peanut gallery have seemingly never been all hands on deck on a win at all costs project, so they say things like ‘wreck the chemistry’ or ‘he didn’t earn it.’

On a project like that, adding a new person at the last minute doesn't usually help much. This is known as Brooks's Law; it's a real phenomenon. It's not about chemistry, but a problem of communication and learning. Helping the new guy get up to speed can cost more time and effort than the extra productivity he adds for the short time he's there.

If the project is easily broken down into independent tasks, Brooks's Law isn't a problem. But if it requires constant close cooperation among team members (like, for instance, hockey), it can really bite you in the behind.

[flamesgod]

Originally Posted by Buff

Dion didn't sign his first contract until September 2004 so he wasn't eligible to play.

Players were probably pushing to move that process forward, so he could play.

[dino7c]

Rhett is kinda clickbait these days so IDK...you would think someone may have mentioned it in the last 20 years

[Goriders]

Originally Posted by Badgers Nose

Weird take. You infer that a few interviews where he rubbed you the wrong way have any bearing on how his team mates see him.

I don’t think you are very self aware. You have nothing in common with him or his team mates. Neither do I, but I understand that.

Most of us should stick to our lanes. You know how he makes you feel, and that’s it. Stop there.

Didn’t really have anything else to base it on. So yes, the interviews I watched.

Seemed like he was trying to portray that he was uber confident. But it didn’t look genuine. I chalked it up to being 18. I think penticton and camp opened his eyes. I hoped he would take it to heart and it would drive him to get better and talk with his on ice performance.

Guessing we will find out this september.

[Mightyfire89]

Originally Posted by Buff

Dion didn't sign his first contract until September 2004 so he wasn't eligible to play.

Could he not have been signed and then allowed to play? I always assumed that was the case and Darryl didn’t want to for…Sutter reasons I suppose.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by Mightyfire89

Could he not have been signed and then allowed to play? I always assumed that was the case and Darryl didn’t want to for…Sutter reasons I suppose.

Like in the middle of the Stanley Cup Finals?

[Mightyfire89]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Like in the middle of the Stanley Cup Finals?

I don’t know. Was it not possible?

[Shazam]

It was pre cap CBA, anything went.

[dino7c]

who knows, Dion was probably on a bender

[Buff]

I don't know what the rules were in 2004 regarding when teams could sign their drafted players and when the player would be eligible for NHL games. As someone suggests, it was probably allowed but I really don't know.

[browna]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Rhett is kinda clickbait these days so IDK...you would think someone may have mentioned it in the last 20 years

It was discussed in the papers, pretty sure, and not just here at CP (those days of the forum lost in internet ether), so it's not Warrener making things up. Different CBA rules then, but the same as Hull in 1986, Iginla in 1996 and I think Comrie for the Oilers in 2001, starting careers in the playoffs.

Red Deer was eliminated late April 2004 so just around same time Flames were dumping the Wings. Having lost Gauthier in R1, and using Brennan Evans for 2 shifts vs Detroit, talk was more that bodies were needed more than Phaneuf being an impact player.

[Jay Random]

It may not have been about when Phaneuf could sign, but when he would have been eligible to play. The Red Deer Rebels went deep in the playoffs that year: Phaneuf played 19 postseason games for them. They weren't eliminated until April 25, by which the Flames were well into their second-round series against the Red Wings.

I don't remember ever hearing of a junior player being signed during the NHL playoffs and playing immediately. I hope someone more knowledgeable can tell us if it's specifically against the rules.