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[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by getbak

Yeah, there's certainly an argument for not letting a contract year slide and allowing the player to get to his second contract before he has really established himself.

If Parekh's deal doesn't slide this year, he'd be eligible to sign his next contract as early as the summer of 2027. If it doesn't slide this year, you'll end up paying more for 2028-29, but potentially a lot less for the four or five years after that on a long-term deal.


I think there are two valid arguments for sending him back to junior...

1. This is not a great year for the team and it might be a pretty negative experience for him to be in the room until the trades start happening.
2. He could benefit from some more physical development. He has taken some big hits already this season. Even though he doesn't have anything more to prove at the junior level, he could get sent down to focus on adding some bulk to his frame without also playing the travel-heavy NHL schedule.

I don't think there needs to be any rush though. I'd wait until around the World Juniors, depending on where things are, let him play there and then make the decision on sending him down at that point.

That’s been my thought too
Let him go to the WJCs and then decide
And agreed the biggest thing is adding some size
It’s such a shame he can’t go to the ncaa which would be perfect for development and off ice physical training

[Infinit47]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

I don't see a lot of people claiming Huska is an amazing coach. You've got a couple posters who hate him, everything he does and give him no credit for last season's success.
You've got others who suggest he played a role in last year's success along with several other factors, including goaltending. And a lot of those people also don't believe Huska is likely going to be the coach when this team is ready to win, or that he is even an elite coach today. But he is also not a bad coach. And I challenge if the Flames could bring in a coach who is clearly better. As I've mentioned, this isn't a compelling place to coach: lack of talent, no star players, a bad building, and a franchise that has established a pattern of firing coaches every 2 years. Who is going to sign up for that?

All that is separate from my point which is Rhett picks and chooses what information he uses to confirm his biases, and will even go as far to make things up.

Well many posters have specific complaints about how Huska runs the team, and the only response ever recieved is that this is a bottom 5 team and Huska isn't the problem. Based on his entire body of work last year sure looks like an outlier, and the claim that he is somehow amazing at developing prospects sure looks like total BS too.

The guy's entire career with the exception of Dustin Wolf's Calder performance last year looks completely mediocre.

Money talks, and if the Flames were willing to pay they would attract a way better coach.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

That’s been my thought too
Let him go to the WJCs and then decide
And agreed the biggest thing is adding some size
It’s such a shame he can’t go to the ncaa which would be perfect for development and off ice physical training

Yeah, NCAA would be a good option.

But playing him part time, here, leaving him able to also spend extra time in the gym building size, accomplishes the same thing.

I think everything is fine, and all the angst is just Canadian fans doing what they do

[Slava]

Originally Posted by Infinit47

Well many posters have specific complaints about how Huska runs the team, and the only response ever recieved is that this is a bottom 5 team and Huska isn't the problem. Based on his entire body of work last year sure looks like an outlier, and the claim that he is somehow amazing at developing prospects sure looks like total BS too.

The guy's entire career with the exception of Dustin Wolf's Calder performance last year looks completely mediocre.

Money talks, and if the Flames were willing to pay they would attract a way better coach.

Why bring in a better coach today when this is clearly a team tanking for the draft? Might as well just let that happen, collect the draft picks/prospects, and then change things up for the better part of the rebuild.

[dammage79]

Flames may never win again?

[saillias]

The idea the Flames are a coaching carousel, no the average lifespan of an NHL coach is 2-3 years. 2.5 or 2.3 last I checked. The Flames are generally pretty good at recognizing when a coach's time is up, although they could stand to do midseason replacements more.

[dammage79]

From all the games I've watched this year, my thoughts are the team's awful start has mostly to do with chemistry and deployment. The recipe that seemed to work last year for the coaches isn't really working this year. Don't know how scoring got worse than last year.

Haha, as I'm typing they showed the bit in the chase where Huskas going off about scoring.

[Infinit47]

Originally Posted by Slava

Why bring in a better coach today when this is clearly a team tanking for the draft? Might as well just let that happen, collect the draft picks/prospects, and then change things up for the better part of the rebuild.

The only reason to keep Huska is because some people believe he is an amazing development coach.

This seems to be based on what he has done with Sharangovich, Wolf, Zary and Coronato last year and the year before. But all of those players have massively regressed and now he is healthy scratching them.

But that doesn't matter because Huska has had one good year ever and is beyond criticism on this site.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by dammage79

From all the games I've watched this year, my thoughts are the team's awful start has mostly to do with chemistry and deployment. The recipe that seemed to work last year for the coaches isn't really working this year. Don't know how scoring got worse than last year.

Haha, as I'm typing they showed the bit in the chase where Huskas going off about scoring.

Huska is the Jon Snow of scoring.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

It looks like Sutter is still pulling the strings from the farm.

They probably dont even know Parekh's number off hand.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Calgary Highlander

Send Parekh to the KHL.

Redstar Kunlun are calling!!

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by TrentCrimmIndependent

Mistakes will occur, and they must brave through it.

Mistakes are fine, but I don't think it's about mistakes. When you lose physical battles or give the puck because you're about to be hit again, those aren't mistakes. Those are signs that he might not be ready.

The book on Parekh has been the same since his D-1 year. Great offensive player, but if he is going to be an impactful NHLer, he needs to engage more defensively. So again, not really about making mistakes. You can't make a mistake on something you didn't actually do. It's not "that was a bad defensive play", more like "what defensive play".

[Locke]

Well. Thats less than ideal.

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by Infinit47

The only reason to keep Huska is because some people believe he is an amazing development coach.

This seems to be based on what he has done with Sharangovich, Wolf, Zary and Coronato last year and the year before. But all of those players have massively regressed and now he is healthy scratching them.

But that doesn't matter because Huska has had one good year ever and is beyond criticism on this site.

There’s so much content defending elements of Huska’s coaching and arguing against the “worst coach everrrr!” narrative that the fact that some of you have to just keep making up a position nobody actually holds is bizarre.

Like there’s probably a hundred different things people have said in support of Huska and I don’t think “He’s an amazing development coach because of what he did with Sharangovich!” has ever, ever been mentioned lol.

Seems dumb but prove me wrong.

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction

Mistakes are fine, but I don't think it's about mistakes. When you lose physical battles or give the puck because you're about to be hit again, those aren't mistakes. Those are signs that he might not be ready.

The book on Parekh has been the same since his D-1 year. Great offensive player, but if he is going to be an impactful NHLer, he needs to engage more defensively. So again, not really about making mistakes. You can't make a mistake on something you didn't actually do. It's not "that was a bad defensive play", more like "what defensive play".

This is when I kinda wish we brought in Mark "back to the gym!" Giordano to help bring our d-men along.

Man strength always seemed to be his area of expertise.