I know it just practice but the fluid skating, and the ease he moves around with and the way he skates to his partner to give an outlet for the pass and becomes the 4th guy deep is what this team desperately needs.
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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.
I'm saying Rhett is probably exaggerating a bit on the players were begging for him and they would have won the cup. Who knows.
He is the hot take guy these days...always featured in the clips. They have got a little click baity lately.
The Flames are not an organization that would leave his parents hanging as to whether or not he will be playing. I suspect if they really are in California he will play.
You know his parents could have made the choice to go on their own. He is not playing tonight.
Pospisil is actually banged up and won't play (hence Klapka on line 1 and Pospisil on the 4th line).
Parekh will be dressed as the 7th dman. He's not taking reps with PP1 in morning skate if he's not playing tonight.
I like this train of thought. I didnt' think they'd play him and leaned towards that being a good thing. But, parents flying in, seeing that clip with him on the PP (compared to Suniev doing drills by himself) seems to be suggesting something different to what is being said out loud.
The decades of watching this organization have taught me that there is no way Parekh sees the ice this season. Even after we're eliminated, he'll still be glued to the press box.
In terms of next season, the only thing preventing Huska from already (as in today) deciding he's not even making the team out of camp is the fact we'd have to send him back to Saginaw. Even with that, though, I only give him a 60/40 shot at getting a nine-game tryout.
If Conny wants him to play, he's going to have to pull rank.
(Parekh still needs a lot of time to get the skill and swagger worked out of him. He needs to learn how to carry a lunch bucket around with him on the ice and skate in steel-toed workboots before he can play in our system. He's probably spent his whole life carrying the puck and making plays... he has to unlearn all of that before he can spend his shifts chasing the puck in his own end, then dumping it into the other end before going off for a change.)
The decades of watching this organization have taught me that there is no way Parekh sees the ice this season. Even after we're eliminated, he'll still be glued to the press box.
In terms of next season, the only thing preventing Huska from already (as in today) deciding he's not even making the team out of camp is the fact we'd have to send him back to Saginaw. Even with that, though, I only give him a 60/40 shot at getting a nine-game tryout.
If Conny wants him to play, he's going to have to pull rank.
They've given plenty of youngsters the chance to play in the last decade.
Gaudreau, Wolf, Coronato, Zary, Kerins, Pospisil, Pelletier & Klapka to name a few.
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They've given plenty of youngsters the chance to play in the last decade.
Gaudreau, Wolf, Coronato, Zary, Kerins, Pospisil to name a few.
Johnny was a once-in-a-generation talent (for this team, at least), and him playing was almost certainly Conroy's doing. Also Sutter inherited him. There's no way he'd ever let a 5'9" 158lbs rookie play on his team otherwise.
Wolf toiled in the A for three years, and even after we were eliminated last season, he still saw Marky get the majority of starts (instead of the team using that time to see how Wolf handled being a starter).
Coronato, Zary and Pospisil also played multiple years in the minors before given a chance here.
This is an organization that would rather have a 30 year old 4th liner with zero offensive talent playing in the top six than a 18-19 year old skilled rookie.
You know his parents could have made the choice to go on their own. He is not playing tonight.
Sure, they could have. My point was the Flames have let them.know one way or the other. If they are there and he does not play they traveled knowing he wouldn't play
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The decades of watching this organization have taught me that there is no way Parekh sees the ice this season. Even after we're eliminated, he'll still be glued to the press box.
In terms of next season, the only thing preventing Huska from already (as in today) deciding he's not even making the team out of camp is the fact we'd have to send him back to Saginaw. Even with that, though, I only give him a 60/40 shot at getting a nine-game tryout.
If Conny wants him to play, he's going to have to pull rank.
(Parekh still needs a lot of time to get the skill and swagger worked out of him. He needs to learn how to carry a lunch bucket around with him on the ice and skate in steel-toed workboots before he can play in our system. He's probably spent his whole life carrying the puck and making plays... he has to unlearn all of that before he can spend his shifts chasing the puck in his own end, then dumping it into the other end before going off for a change.)
For the record, a lot of what I'm sying right now is a mixture of tongue in cheek sarcasm and honest frustration from 40+ years of watching them do the same things year after year, telling us "this time it will be different!"
Edit: Also a bit of prepping for the worst, so that anything else is a welcome bit of positivity.
Bro. You're the same guy that argued with me that Tkachuck was going to be nothing without Gaurdreau... and then that Florida was a garbage team that was never going to win anything.
Like... maybe you need to worry about how closely you're watching hockey lol.
