Matvei Gridin Makes Flames Roster | Calgary’s Top Prospect Earns Shot in Top 6 - video Dailymotion

Peter Klein

The Calgary Flames made headlines today as top prospect Matvei Gridin officially cracked the NHL roster out of training camp.  🔥 Former Sportsnet 960 host Peter Klein breaks down what this means for Calgary: Gridin’s elite shot and offensive upside could be exactly what this roster needs after ranking near the bottom of the NHL in goal scoring last season.  He’s not being eased in, Gridin is skating on a line with Morgan Frost and Matt Coronado, showing the Flames view him as a legitimate top-6 option right away.  Injuries to Jonathan Huberdeau and Martin Pospisil opened the door, but Gridin’s camp performance may have forced the issue regardless.  But there are still questions… Should the Flames have kept Rory Kerins up as well? Is Yegor Sharangovich really a fit in a fourth-line role? And what does this mean for younger players like Perets going forward?  📊 Full breakdown of Gridin’s impact, line combinations, and what to expect as the Flames head into the new season.  👉 SUBSCRIBE for more Calgary Flames coverage, NHL previews, and in-depth analysis all season long!  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00Certainly not on the level of the news from the team up north of the Calgary Flames making a few

00:05headlines in the NHL today. So let's discuss one of the team's more exciting prospects

00:10starting the year with the big club.

00:20The Calgary Flames are going to be keeping a couple of their prospects hanging around

00:25for the start of the season as Gridden. Gridden? Gridden? Gridden? Either way, your boy Gridden is

00:35staying up with the big club. That the news of the day. Sorry, there was a lot that was tweeted out

00:40trying to find the official stuff here. Of course, from our boy Pat Steinberg tweeting out that Matt

00:46Vey Gridden confirms he has made the team out of training camp. And so there was some frustration.

00:53I was on radio in Calgary last week when the Karens, Soloviov, Prosvitov verdict came down

01:02after clearing waivers and not clearing waivers. And a lot of frustration around how all of that

01:09played out. This, I think, quiets it down a little bit. Because you have now an exciting young kid

01:16who, if it's just based off of training camp, earned an opportunity to break camp with this team.

01:22There's no question. There's an electricity to his game. And I think the biggest part is the shot that

01:29he has. There is an offensive upside that just not a lot else provides on this roster right now. So it

01:38makes sense for them to give this a go. They get some space freed up. Steinberg also tweeting out

01:44today that the club not expecting Jonathan Huberto nor Martin Pospisal to be ready for the season.

01:50Head coach Ryan Huska says, the hope is that both are short-term situations. So that makes it a

01:57little bit easier. Now, I would suggest it maybe made it also easier to keep one Rory Karens on the

02:02roster, which I think they still should have done. But they got away with it because the kid was able

02:06to pass through waivers. But this is an exciting prospect for the Flames. And one thing that this

02:13organization is looking for are guys who can help out offensively. Because this was a group that even

02:20though they finished with the highest point total of any team to have never made the, or to have not

02:26made the playoffs, they still finished like what, 29th in goal scoring? So this kid, it does feel weird

02:32to say, oh yeah, no, just, hey, a kid who hasn't played a second of pro hockey, fix us. But there is

02:40that there's just something different about him compared to some of the other pieces that this team

02:47has. So when you have a young player who has earned his way through camp, gotten better as camp has gone

02:52on, and he fits exactly what your team is needing, seems like a pretty obvious choice to me. So I think

02:59it makes sense. You look at the lines, and how it broke out from camp today, or practice, I guess,

03:06training camp over, I guess, for the roster today. Gridden is on a line with Frost and Coronado. I find

03:13that really intriguing. It's different than what I would have done for a couple of reasons. We'll go more

03:18in depth on Flames preview tomorrow on the show. But I, I do like the idea, like Coronado and Gridden, that

03:24is a dangerous offensive pairing. Frost is a very high hockey IQ player that can spread the puck

03:30around very effectively. So I, I think the potential on that line is high. And I like that Gridden is

03:36getting thrown into the fire. Like, it's not just easing him in on the fourth line or whatever. They

03:40view him as a top six player. It's what they said with Karens. They view him as a top six player.

03:44There is a top six role that is available. Go fill it. Go see what you can do. This is what this should

03:50be for the Flames. We'll talk about them in a bit where expectations are or anything like that. But

03:55I, I think that this year is about trying to see where all the pieces fit, what you have in some of

04:05your young players as the organization continues to develop and see where the process kind of lands

04:11you. So Gridden making the roster is a big part of that. Um, with the injuries, Faraby is

04:19on a line with Kadri and Klapka. And the other noteworthy part of all of this is Sharon Govich

04:25is on the fourth line with Lomberg and Kirkland. That is a part I don't love. Um, again, we'll get

04:32into this a little bit more tomorrow, but I, I thought there was a chemistry with Sharon Govich and

04:36Frost. So I thought it made sense for those guys to stay together because you do have an investment

04:43in Sharon Govich. And he is not someone who you think would be effective in a fourth line role.

04:50He is not a guy who, if he's not scoring, well, he's doing the other little things to help the

04:53team win. That ain't him. He needs to be the scoring guy. So him down on the fourth line,

04:57it's practice multiple days before opening night. So I'm not going to overreact to it, but

05:03that at least stood out to me. And then the other part that's jumping out to a lot of people

05:06is Parekh would be in a spot where he wouldn't be playing on opening night, which I think would be

05:12a gigantic mistake for the Calgary Flames organization, uh, going forward. But we will

05:18see how it all plays out heading into the opener later on this week. What do you guys think? Was

05:23Gridden a no brainer to make the roster? Should they still have kept Karens up with the team? Let

05:28me know what you guys think in the chat, if you're watching live or in the comments after the, uh,

05:33all this gets posted.

Matvei Gridin Makes Flames Roster | Calgary’s Top Prospect Earns Shot in Top 6

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