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.
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