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And you were worried. Welcome to game over, Calgary, everyone. After another. What the heck was that night? From the Calgary Flames, both positively and negatively.

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My name is Peter Klein. Thank you very much for tuning in this evening. What a weird one from the Calgary Flames as they just wrapped up a three two win over the Carolina Hurricanes. The chat is already busy tonight, so we will keep that going as you guys are always fun. If you have any kind of off topic questions, we will get to those at the end of this one.

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As always, I don't even know why. I don't even know why I try to do any prep before these shows start. Right through two periods of play. Hi, Conrad. Through two periods of play, I had notes eviscerating this team, like, embarrassing, pathetic, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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And then the third period happens and they score that first goal and I was like, oh, fuck off. Don't come out here and pretend you were in this hockey game. And oh, well, we only lost by one. And then they scored again and then they scored again and they won the whole thing. So I don't know why I tried to come up with any notes or anything like that.

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Don't comment on Yoda being terrified. Oh, it's one year's folded. That's weird. But look, Christmas Yoda is good luck. All right, Christmas Yoda.

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Now, one and O coming out of this one, lurking in the background of, I don't even want to say speechless because that would be a bad thing for a podcast host to say. But there's just like, how do you break down something like that for two periods of play? They were dreadful. They had no business being in that hockey game. And I tweeted out like it was two nothing.

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But it didn't feel like a two nothing game, did it? It felt done. Some of you were tweeting at me, oh, yeah, just start the stream after the first because this game's over. Don't even bother waiting for the second or third. And I'm not like, oh, wow, cold takes exposed.

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Got you. Because I was like, yeah, we kind of should. This team doesn't have the expectations to do A. They're blowing it. We're starting this in the third period.

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Everything is awful type of a stream. But they were blowing it and everything was awful. It was an abysmal third period or second period, and then they come out in the third and it's like a completely different hockey team. I genuinely don't know how to explain it, but once again on this night, the straw that stirs the drink ends up being this. I was going to call them the second line.

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They're the first line at this point, right? Like the Cadri Zari Paspaso line is the top line for the Flames. We all agree that is number one on the NHL 24 lineup card, right? There's no question they were the only reason this game wasn't 19, nothing after 40 minutes of play. What they were able to do and the energy they were able to bring, it was just like the entire building woke up when they were on the ice because something was finally happening, and there is a real jump and a real chemistry with that group right now.

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And one of the things I was going to talk about was, do you blow this line up basically to try to get everyone else going? Because it was relatively lifeless the rest of the way. And so it's funny, like you talk about with the Oilers, it's like, oh, well, do you break up McDavid and Dreystidle? And with the Flames, it's like, hey, do you break up Zari and pospasal? Could you possibly spread that kind of wealth out throughout the lineup?

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But that is where we are at. And yes, as Conrad pointed out, clearly, Postpasol was holding this line back, this team back. As Ruzica comes in and gets the goal, or essentially gets the goal, Zari does finish it, but that kind of really gets this thing going and makes it two to two. But this line, again, whether it was with pospusal pre taking a puck off the ankle or post when he was able to come back in or in that stretch where it was Razichka, they are still everything that you would want from a line right now with this team. They're playing with energy.

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They are creating tons of chances. And I would venture to guess through 40 minutes of play, the only chances that the Flames had were coming off of the work that Zari, Kadria and Pospusal were doing, and that helped kind of keep the Flames afloat in this game. And so it was nice to see that it was that line with Zari eventually getting it that tied the game up and really got that big goal because I thought they deserved it tonight. But I think that there could be a point where you would look at, hey, should we put pospusel with such and such and move Zari one play? Like, do you put Huberto with Cadre and try to get things going that way?

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Because aside from that line, they were essentially lifeless for a lot of this game. And I thought when it really felt like it had turned was when the back one line started to get going. And they had that shift where Huberto creates a bit of a look off of, I believe it was off the wall, creates a chance out in front, and then Coleman ends up getting the shorthanded goal. And so that was when it was like, okay, well, this team, for a lot of this year, quite frankly, has been doing what they've been doing with two lines going right, like the Lindholm line. And I thought it was tonight.

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And they pointed out on the broadcast, Lindholm had a pretty good moment there in the third period, killing off some time in the corner. But it's been pretty quiet for Lindholm for a lot of this season, really. And so they've really just been doing it with two lines. And so when the backlin line kind of woke up, that was when you started to feel that the tide start to shift a little bit. So I thought that was relatively interesting.

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But, yeah, it feels like, again, I'm kind of all over the place, because this game, like I said, just through 40 minutes, they had nothing.

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It was a lifeless performance. I thought I could hear my dog barking through the TV at the dome down the hill because it was so quiet in there that you could hear stuff going on on the outside of the building. It felt like. And then there was some life, and now they won. And I'm still trying to process what to make of all of just, it was a really weird night, but it was nice to see that second line or the cadre line really start to get it going, and then Backland starts to pick it up.

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And then Rzica, who it does feel like he's kind of hit a bit of a lull, and it feels like the longer he sticks with the big club, whether it was last year or this year, the more he kind of fades into the background. And so it was nice to see him become a bit more of a prominent player in this game. And he is still someone who I hold out some kind of hope for, for being not like, difference making, impact type of a guy, but someone who can play a very good role on the flames. I still think there is a bit of a skill set here for him. So it was nice to see him kind of get rewarded with a really smart play.

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Nice pass by Kadri. He gets behind the defense and all but beats the goalie, and it stops at the goal line and Zari bangs it home. Also friend of the podcast and friend of the network. And I guess not even friend of the network, fellow coworker on SDPN, Julian Mackenzie, tweeting out the shot chart for Connor Zari. And basically all of his goals are coming, like right in front of the net.

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This one's going to come basically in the thing. All of the goals coming from right in front of the net. And you wouldn't expect that from Zari, who's all of like 119 pounds at least looks like, anyway.

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But we've been talking about this for two years. Those are the types of goals this team needs to score that they aren't going to do a whole lot. Pretty, right? And look at the goals that they scored tonight.

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You have off of a face off, win a shot, it bounces off of a dude to a pinching defenseman who backhands it in. You have Ruzica on what was kind of a broken play, sneaks behind the defense, shot, almost goes in, and Zari crashes into the net, putting it in. And then the third one's a shorthanded goal, which, it was nice, but this isn't a team that's going to skill you to death, that they're going to have to work very hard to do it. And maybe that's why they can only do it for 20 minutes at a time. Because.

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Because it's exhausting to play how this team is going to have to play to be successful, but this is what they are going to have to do, right? Like, they aren't going to go out and put up 100 shots a game. It's not going to be a lot of razzle or dazzle. It's going to have to be a lot of that lunch pail, crash, bang, boom, win pucks off of the wall, get it in front of the net, hope it bounces off of a couple of guys to a defenseman who happens to be right there, who puts the puck in the net. That is how this team is going to be successful.

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And they finally got back to that in the third period. In the first and second period, there was no sustained pressure, there was no winning of puck battles. There was no nothing. And it was once again, you know, things are bad with this group when the neutral zone is just the free space for the opposition, that there is no resistance through the neutral zone and there's no speed. Build up the other way, back through the neutral zone.

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You can kind of see it right away. It's like a pitcher in baseball, when a pitcher doesn't have command of his slider or the fastball, it's like they're starting it where it's supposed to go and then it's breaking. That's kind of what it is with the Flames, where you can see right away it's like, oh, they don't have it right now because that team just zipped right through and now they have an opportunity to score. So they didn't have it and then they did have it. The story of the Calgary Flames.

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Once again, the chat is going great. So as Conrad is reminding you all, hit like share this video and subscribe to the channel. We are so close to 100,000 subscribers on SDPN, so I think that opens us up to do a whole lot more fun stuff on here. So please do that and we can have more fun conversations like this. But yeah, let more people know that we're talking Calgary Flames here after a flames win over the Carolina Hurricanes.

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Twad's not all positive and I don't want to focus all on the negatives because I know that a lot of people want the rebuild, right? And we kind of talked about this basically after every game that they win anyway. Everyone wants a rebuild. Everyone wants this team to blow it up. And so anytime they lose, it's oh, hey, hooray, rebuild.

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Look at this. Don't they suck? Isn't that awesome? There's going to be, I would imagine, plenty of losing in the next couple of years. So my humble opinion, enjoy this stuff.

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You don't enjoy the first 40 minutes, but Wild comebacks like this. Let it be fun, let it be enjoyable because I do think there is going to be a lot of pain in the future for this team. However, there was. That being said, I do think you're kind of whistling past the graveyard if you're just like Ah, well, come from behind, win. First two periods don't matter because there's a lot in those first couple of periods that are really concerning.

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Carolina gets a goal off of a face off win and then they do again, but it gets called back off of goaltender interference. This is starting to become a thing with this group. Like we are seeing a number of face off loss. Bing, bang, boom, it's in the back of the net. And this is one of those times where I will admit the whole didn't play past peewee thing maybe comes back because the entirety of my analysis of wow, this team is allowing too many goals off of face off wins.

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Like if there's slight bit of analysis in the first segment where it's hey, slow them down in the neutral zone, that makes it a bit more difficult for them to get things going offensively. If you can kind of jam that up, and then if you can also get speed through there, it helps you out offensively. There's a touch of analysis there with the giving up goals off of set plays off, the face off. The entirety of my analysis, stop it. Fucking cut it out.

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That's basically it, because I don't know what you're supposed to do when there's a clean face off. When aho goes back and he rips a one timer from the depths of hell that goes into the back of your net.

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That was one where it's like, man, that seems like it's happening a lot, and then it happened again. I don't know what they need to do to stop it. Win more face offs would probably be the way to go. I feel like that solves a lot of problems on the power play, which was dreadful again tonight, and solves those type of issues where it seems to be ending up in the back of your net a whole lot more often than it happens with other teams. And now the majority of the games that I'm watching are obviously Flames games.

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The whole that's my job thing. So I don't have a chart of how many times it's happened to the Arizona Coyotes this year, but it does feel like it happens against the Flames more often than I see it happen in other situations, and that's absolutely something they need to get figured out. I know Audi kind of went in on it on the last stream, and I talked about it on the Twitch stream that I did yesterday. Shameless plug, Twitch TV, slash, primetime PK. More ramblings like this, but there's a video game happening at the same time.

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Dylan Dubey's kind of.

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There's just. There's not a whole lot happening with him. That the biggest thing he did was block a shot tonight, and there was. You could not convince me that he meant to do that. He just happened to be skating where a puck went, and it hit him in the foot and, oh, hey.

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Fearlessly blocked by Dylan Dubey. No, he is not doing shit out there right now. And if it were me, I would drive him to the airport. Some people suggesting waivers, maybe someone claims him. At this point, I would take a couple million dollars off the cap gleefully and let whoever Dryden Hunt come up from the American Hockey League, because the obvious one would be Coronado.

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But Dubai is playing in a fourth line role right now. We don't want Coronado playing there. So bring on Dryden Hunt and let him play on the fourth line with Dewer or whoever, he's got nothing left. And now I understand he was on a certain junior team that has a certain thing hanging over them and not a whole lot of people trading for those guys right now. That is not to say that I think he did or didn't do anything.

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There's a little bit of a something something hanging over guys from that world. Junior team and innocent or not, we're assuming we're going to find out about that soon. And you tend to not trade for players who are parts of teams that are ongoing investigations. So I don't know, you could sit them. I mean they did basically tonight.

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I haven't looked at the roster report, but like I said, it felt like I noticed him all of exactly one time tonight and that was because someone shot a puck off of his foot that he could pretend he was out there actually doing something. So while I am God, NHL.com sucks. Especially the mobile app. Hey, I know I'm not the first person who has complained about it this year that it's real edgy stuff that I'm complaining about NHL.com, but I'm clicking on time on ice and just nothing is coming up. So let's for a moment assume that Dylan Dubay didn't actually play a whole lot in this hockey is I would at this point, as I have said, much rather let someone else fill in for him instead and free up that kind like just a 7th round pick in 29 go.

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Fine, whatever. I don't see right now and this is going to seem extremely harsh, but if you want to tell me no, there's something there. Okay. What's leading you to that? What does he do that helps winning in any way, shape or form and what part of his game looks like something is going to develop into anything?

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He doesn't have a shot. He has, I would suggest average to slightly above average speed. He has decent puck retrieval when he wants to, but he's like 7th on the team when it comes to that sort of a thing. He's defensively responsible, kind of. He doesn't give the puck to the other team in front of your own goal if there is a better there and he still young player, fine junior career, relatively good draft pedigree.

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So all of those things are like okay, yeah, that this could lead to something. I just don't see from a 547 time on ice tonight. Honestly that seems about five minutes more than it felt like tonight. But if you want to tell me something's coming with this dude you're going to have to do a lot of explaining because I just don't see where that's coming from with Dylan Duvet. And so that one, to me, is kind of, God, it sounds so harsh to say, but kind of lost cause at this point.

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It's like, okay, well, next, it's not going to be. It hasn't been it definitely. I definitely feel it's not going to be it. So let's see if someone else is going to be it, and if you want to dangle them out there on waivers and see what happens, and if San Jose. That the suddenly hot San Jose Sharks want to pounce on that one, or if Chicago wants to take a chance on it, then by all means, let them.

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At that point, let them. I am officially over it with. They just. This team so desperately needs players to step up right now, and he has, as has been documented on this show by Audi and by myself, he has been given so many chances to succeed, just an absolutely absurd amount of chances to succeed, and he has been in basically all of them tonight.

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One more thing here before we get to your questions. And again, the chat is filling up and I'm not seeing a whole lot of people being, oh, no. Actually, Dylan Dube was great at this thing. But I do think we should talk about Dustin Wolf this evening. I thought he looked great, and neither goal tonight was his fault.

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As kind of talked about before, one goal happens, basically, moments into the game, you have an Orlov shot that gets deflected right in front of him. Both goals ended up being deflected in this game. So I don't think there's a whole lot that you can kind of critique wolf on. And he made a couple of big stops in this game that helped keep this team in. Um, you let in two goals relatively early, and now it's like, okay, this is a kid who's been maybe a little rattled coming up from the American Hockey League.

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How does he bounce back and checked every box? You could have asked for him tonight, given how that team was playing in the first couple of periods, if they came out of that game down three, four, five, nothing, no one's batting an eye, and no one is blaming Dustin Wolf. There'd be a couple of assholes, I guess, but no one's blaming Dustin Wolf for any of that tonight. Instead, he comes out, shuts the door, makes a big save late. The buzzer probably sounded, but he makes a big save late.

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Makes a couple of good stops there. Nikash had one right in front that he was perfectly positioned for. He was everything you would have wanted him to be in this start. And so, quite frankly, I would start him Saturday against the New Jersey Devils and then maybe give, what is it next Tuesday against Colorado, maybe give that one to blur because they're playing a back to back. So that one's going to be, he's going to get one or the other, which, by the way, a back to back against Colorado in Vegas seems unfair.

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That's a rough one. But anyway, I would go with Wolf for the next one and just let him ride the hot hand. Like I said, let's see what this kid has. I do think you want to give Ladar another shot to again kind of see what he had tonight or has going forward. So I'm reading the chat while talking and that's things are crossing.

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But I think you go Vladar at some point here again for a couple of games, just again, let him maybe get his confidence back and hopefully bump up the trade value a little bit. The Toronto Maple Leafs, I gather, might be looking for a goaltender again. So maybe tree living obviously likes him, brought him in the first place. All right, so those are just a couple of notes. Oh, also, the power play sucks again.

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For a second there, it looked like it might not, but it sucks again. You get one setup on the power play that'll last about 40 seconds, and if you're not getting it in that, it's over. There's just nothing going on with this power play right now. One more time, a reminder. Like this video, I think I've been all right tonight.

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So we have Vogon poetry. I apologize if I'm saying that wrong, saying I don't notice Dube in a bad way often. I don't think he sucks so much as his game breaking moments are few and far between. His board work is often pretty rad. He works hard, no, and he works hard for sure.

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His board work is all right. I don't have a lot to critique about it, but it's fine, right? The thing is though, not that he's making a huge chunk of money, but if you want to get work hard, like Dryden Hunt will work hard. Walker Dewer works hard. AJ Greer works hard.

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But there's a ceiling on works hard. Right? We'd all love it if the best players in the NHL were also the ones who work the Ah. Doesn't always happen, does it? But then you get like when talent and hard work come together and you get mega super Duper stars, right?

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But for a lot of times one of the first things you're saying about a guy is, man, that guy works hard. Probably a third or fourth liner, right? Like, it sucks to say that, but if that's the first thing that stands out to you, I'm just saying I don't think that there is much of a ceiling on this kid. I think we kind of see what he is. I don't know where the better is coming from.

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And so at this point, if you can get anything for him, fine. And I'd rather see if you can strike it with someone else, to be perfectly honest with you, you can find works hard on the waiver wire 15 times a year. So maybe it's just being overly critical because this guy gets so many opportunities, but I'd rather give it a go with someone else. I totally see what you're saying.

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He follows up by saying, I just don't see whipping boy status as he's garnered recently. To me, whipping boy status if he was in third or fourth line roles, which to be fair, he was for the majority, but then you sit Pospasil, you put Dube into a second line role immediately. And that's where it gets a little bit frustrating. It's that like, okay, we'll put you back here. But the second anyone has a misstep, then he's back up on a top two role.

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And that's where people get a little bit frustrated with him, is that he keeps getting opportunities that it doesn't appear he has earned, at least this season anyway. But let's keep more of that coming in the chat as we go into the press conference. Now, a lot of discussion about this Conrad off topic presser question. It's damn cold in Calgary. What's your go to soup?

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A lot of good ones. My mom's corn chowder. Phenomenal. Absolutely spectacular. When I think of soups, I think of that if I'm just going because I can't just have a vat of Mom's soup at any time, that she lives 800 km away.

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No, I've made it occasionally, but if I'm going like nice comfy, I need to go down to the grocery store and get a soup. I'm a minestrone guy that might be a little bit out there. Big minestrone fan, so that's where I'm going here. And I'm going to assume even though it's a bit delayed, I'm going to say that's fair, is to my soup recommendation and nothing else. Conrad saying I'd take Wolf and Donsk as our NHL tandem if we move both Markey and Fladar.

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I wouldn't hold my breath on a Markstrom trade. It just seems like to me the most likely tandem is Markstrom and Wolf. And that way I feel like if you went Wolf and Dansk, you're kind of like throwing all of the keys to Wolf. And while I do believe he is kind of ready for it, that seems like a lot to thrust upon someone, especially given how we think the next couple of years are going to go with this team. I don't mind having Markstrom here as the one A to Wolf's one B for a little bit and let him get acclimated to NHL life and Let him be, for lack of a better term, let him be the adult in the room and guide this young man through the opening stages of his NHL career.

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Not that Markstrom, while also being the starting goalie, so that it's not a difficult sell to Markstrom, but I would like to see Markstrom and be. Unless someone gives you the world for them, right? Like, there's no untouchables to me right now with this roster. So if someone's going to give you the sun and the moon for Jacob Markstrom, then yes, accept and I'll figure it out. We'll go sign some other guy who no one's ever heard of and bring him in or, or so, yeah, like whatever, they can go out and get the Laurent Brasois of the world or anything like that.

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But for now, I like the idea of Markstrom with Wolf and Markstrom kind of being the one to shoulder some of the more difficult things as Wolf gets acclimated to NHL life. What else do we have here for? Maybe we can get 2 seconds for, you know, I feel like I was pretty vague on my thoughts on Dube, so maybe we'll need to dive back into that a little bit more. Know how you stop face off plays when face offs? Yeah, it seems like the ones that end up in your back internet obviously suck.

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The ones that have been getting to me are the face off losses on the power play. When it is face off loss, other teams sends it down, and then it's not till like the 30, like with 30 seconds left in the power play that they get set up. I feel like that among a number of other things, but that mainly has been the issue for the Flames is that they lose the face off, it gets sent all the way down the ice, and then it ends up being forever because this team's zone entries suck. Now, if you figured out zone entries, then it wouldn't be as much of an issue. But again, you wouldn't have to worry about those.

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You wouldn't have to worry about entering if you're already in and you can just win the face off. That's how the rules were set up to help those sorts of things. Also, just like a quick aside for those of us who are old in here, which might not be any of us, I remember a time where you would get a penalty in the defensive zone and it would stay in the defensive. Like, we don't give the NHL a ton of credit here, which is fair. That was a really smart rule change to set that up.

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Just a quick aside, we don't talk about that enough. We shit on the league a lot, and rightfully so. But that's a rule where it's like, yeah, that was a good change they made there. Conrad says. So say we move Dube, are we looking at maybe acquiring someone like a Stefanielle, a true face off specialist?

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You could. I certainly wouldn't scoff at that. Admittedly, I don't know who those are in the NHL right now. Like, the Leafs seem to think camp is that sort of a fellow because he goes out there and takes the face offs to start overtime, as has been brought up on the SDP a couple of times. But I don't know if he's rocking that kind of a percentage where it's like, oh, man, go out and trade Dylan Dubey for that dude.

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But yeah, if you could get someone who's maybe a little bit better at it. The problem is it kind of needs to be one of your power play guys, right? Like it kind of needs to be Lind homer Backland to just figure it out because you don't want to have Stefan yell type go out there, take the face off, and then fucking sprint to the bench and someone comes back on. Because then you've just killed 510, 15 seconds anyway. But yeah, it's an area of this game that it needs to get better at, that this team needs to get better at.

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There's a lot of those, obviously. But I do want to ask you guys, temperature check here. Obviously we're all ready for tear down, rebuild, whatever. Are you still enjoying these games? Is a night like tonight still fun where they come back from two nothing down third period?

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Like the first two periods suck? I'm not asking you, hey, was that really fun when they gave up the first five shots of the game, but when they come out and have a big come from behind win in the third period, are you still enjoying that or are we so far in like hey, let's try to tank that nights like tonight aren't even enjoyable. I'm genuinely curious. You guys get to ask me stuff. I'm asking you guys stuff now because like I said, I do think there is some pain and suffering to come.

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From a flame standpoint. I don't think that even if this team tried right now, I don't think you're bottoming out that right. Like it feels like Anaheim has kind of fallen back into that mode. San JOse, while right now they are on a bit of a roll, overall not great. They have built up a pretty good cushion in the old tank battle.

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So I don't think this is going to be a team that is going to be able to fall to second, 3rd, 4th, last in the National Hockey League. So I do think that they're kind of going to be hanging around in this playoff race all year long. And why not? To me, yes, this team should do full rebuild. They're probably not going to.

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So why not give a bit of playoff experience now, I'm not saying go out and trade for like don't hear what I'm not saying. Don't be buyers at the trade deadline. Throw all the young kids in. But if Soloviov as your fourth defenseman happens to lead you to a first round series, even if you get shelled by Colorado in the first round, it's playoff experience for guys like Wolf and Zari and Soul to see what that extra level is and to see what this mystical Land of playoff hockey is all about. So I genuinely don't think it's the worst thing.

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Now, again, don't be going out and training for Patrick line for your first to try to make things work right. Like do what you got to do with the expiring contracts. And if anyone else wants to give you a first round pick for something else on this roster, let them. But I don't mind that they're still hanging around in some of these games and battling back in this way, giving some of these players some of that experience. Now, the last time we said that was the Findaway Flames team, and look where that got us.

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But still, I do think learning how to win and learning what playoffs are like are actual things that young players need to do. So I think stuff like tonight is kind of fun. Conrad said, celebrate the wins, but still solidly team tank. It makes things easier, right? They win.

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Hey, that was fun. They lose. Hey, team Tank, it makes it fun either way. Toxic, enjoyable because of the rookie, but I still want them to lose. I'm just confused as to why this team doesn't play a full 60, you know, Paul, that's an excellent point.

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Paul Singh in the chat there, that is an excellent point. It would be nice. Nothing was prevented. All due respect to Carolina, who I think quite highly of as a hockey team, although they're probably happy to leave Alberta, Carolina was not doing anything that would hinder the Flames from doing what they did in the third and the first and the second. I didn't look at the first and second period as, oh, man, what a brilliantly devised and executed game plan by the Carolina Hurricanes.

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It was, oh, man, the Flames are dog shit. And then they were less dog shit and then they won the hockey game. So just do that for 60 minutes. It is probably hard work, but it is kind of your job. So, yes, I would absolutely agree with that.

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Credellis, again, apologize if I'm saying that wrong. I enjoy watching the kids. Conrad hashtag fire Murray Edwards. That's difficult to do, firing an owner. Like certain instances in pro sports, it has happened, but like twice, maybe ever.

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So I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. But yeah, this should be a rebuild. But it's fun to see Pospasol in there. It's fun to see Zari getting goals and getting so fired up after. It's fun to see Wolf in there and Soloviov doing the holy water bit at the end of the game now with the NHL team instead of the American Hockey League group.

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So there's some fun that you can find in this one. And hopefully part of the fun that you can find is right here on game over. That is going to do it for the stream tonight. You guys have been a blast. My name is Peter Klein.

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You can find me on social media, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. I am at Primetime Klein and I host a podcast called Couch Potato Diary. When I'm not yelling and screaming, about the Calgary Flames on this show one more time. If you stuck it out this long, you must have liked something. So, like this video, subscribe to the channel, share it with all of your friends, and even, like, one or two people who you don't like just to throw them off a little bit.

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Next game is Saturday afternoon against the New Jersey Devils. Audie James has you covered on that one. It should be a lot of fun this season. May not be, but tonight was. You guys are a blast, as always.

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Thank you all so much, and we'll talk to you guys later. Have a good night, everybody.