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Life as a fan of the Calgary Flames is complicated, but with riding a two-game winning streak, our prospects playing out of their minds, and some positive injury news, this is pretty much as perfect as it gets during what is expected to be a painful rebuild. We're going to get to all that more in this video, but first I want to welcome you to Flames Digest. I'm Mark Griffith. If you're new around here and you love the Flames, make sure you subscribe so you can stay up to date on all the latest news, updates, reports, and rumors revolving around your Calgary Flames. We would love to welcome you to the Flames Digest family. let's dive in with what is everyone's favorite topic and start with the prospects because Calgary prospects are producing in the NCAA right now. Not only the NCAA, it just seems like that's where at least half of our prospects are currently playing, which isn't a bad thing. That's obviously a very good place to develop. We've seen some really good players come out of college hockey over the past few years here. And I'm going to start it off with, you know, kind of, I guess, our college pipeline and then get into what the Flames actually themselves are at least on social media because they did a great job but if we look at just the NCAA right now this is just a handful of players but they are popping off Whittenbach as we know it's kind of our star boy I'm really glad that the last time I mentioned him a lot of you did back him up in the comments based off what we were seeing on social media otherwise people saying like he doesn't defend he doesn't back check he's soft that kind of thing that's not what we need him to do we are a team that is in need of goals we will need goals and points when the time comes that's what he's there for but he currently has 11 points in five games played led the nation last year in points we're hoping he can do the same this year Russian Karlovs have seven points and three points respectively each in five games played at UND so far Karlovs looked really really good last night kind of doing i mean he had a couple bad plays but he looked you know very good just based off the highlights i didn't watch the game but based off the highlights he he was a monster in more than one way Michigan State Hexter has four points Potter just two points in three games so I'd like to see a little bit more out of Colin Potter I hope he doesn't disappoint us too much looks like he's still trying to get into the groove of things after that bad injury last year but glad Hextall's over a point per game Muse at Michigan he's got four points in six games I could see him very well being a player that's involved in a lot of trade rumors just because we have so many players at that position that are maybe developing a little bit better which is unfortunate and then Hoskin at Merrimack he's got four points in four games as well so someone to kind of take note of not expecting him to necessarily be a star at any point but still good to of course you know pay attention to that now the inspiration for this video did actually come from the Flames social media they did it kind of a future watch um and they went over you know a bunch of different leagues i guess is the best way to put it and they started with the CHL uh maybe i do actually like it bigger in this window uh so Katalitsky he's got seven points right now with Sarnia in the OHL we have a few guys as well in the dub chase harrington who i'm going to be speaking about in a second here quite a bit he's got 15 points with the Spokane Chiefs right now he is going crazy phillips has four points joey aginla with six points that's him on the left there uh and then both Bowdler and Jacob Leander have three points and two points respectively so clearly there's one outlier there and it is harrington but you know not to disrespect Kadylitsky and Joe Agin as well they're doing really well and Phillips big defenseman defensive guy with four points as well as great to see um just going further along with the international skaters now Stokely, he's got four points um in the SHL right now i know he's kind of bouncing around a little bit he's doing well Shkelis Lamov who i spoke about in the last time we spoke about prospects video he has 17 points right now got that big promotion to the top league he is looking absolutely excellent could be the steal of this past draft after certainly Whitnock was the one before it's it's very similar to that in terms of the point production just obviously very different competition they're playing against and Yatman sorry Jan Mat Vako Jan Man uh he's got four points as well so someone to keep an eye on for sure uh next up they went over the NCAA skaters i know i showed a few there but uh there's lots to talk about so Hextall who we mentioned Max Curran disappointingly zero points uh with UMass I don't know if he's hurt or anything I actually haven't been paying attention to all at him but I hope he can pick it up Whitnock as we saw has 11 Hoskin 4 Potter 2 Reshney 7 uh Cade Liddler is added into this from ASU he's got three points uh Barabanov has three points at UMass so clearly he's able to produce at least uh Carl's as we know is three points Jameson and Aiden Lane both on zero which is a little disappointing Muse with four and then Luke Misa also with a disappointing just two points but overall we have a lot of guys again the major outlier here in a positive light is Wittenbach and Reschney playing against better opposition this year seven points he is looking absolutely excellent probably a guy I don't talk about enough despite it feeling like I do talk about him quite a bit if we take a look at the goalies now Yegor Yegorov doing awesome down at miami he has .909 save percentage tray ball i would say maybe the most disappointing prospect right now i think we saw him more on a video not too long ago pointed out his stats and was saying he's been a disappointment and he has just an .850 save percentage at UMass so far this year hopefully he can get it together and play a little bit better because we want to see some monster numbers from him as he should be our number one goalie prospect a little bit disappointing from here and another guy who has to be talked about is over in russia Daniil Chek sorry Cheklev he's got a .923 save percentage right now it's funny it always seems like those guys have such high save percentages when they play over in russia and then it doesn't translate to the north american game but obviously we hope it does for him when if and when he does decide to make the jump but the main prospect for me and the flames themselves once again they released a huge article on chase harrington written by chris wall so shout out to him but the headline awesome headline writes these are my brothers after extended Flames camp, Harrington leading by example over in Spokane and again he was unexpectedly the guy who stayed around the longest essentially at the Flames training camp and got to develop like crazy after being just drafted back in June and i'm not going to go over the whole article again it's a really long one but i do have three screen grabs of it because there are some awesome quotes in here so for Harrington the experience in Calgary was a confidence booster he said it was important being able to prove to myself that I can compete with those guys he said over the phone this week when asked about his time in the Stampede City I learned a lot from those guys and I'm bringing that back to Spokane now and brought it Harrington is the reigning WHL player of the week and as his Chiefs prepare for a weekend home set against their division rivals from Portland the product of Prince George BC sits tied for fourth among the junior circuit's top scorers with 15 points six goals nine assists all while helping Spokane race out of the gate to an eight and one record to start the season so we hope that just continues like crazy for him both the you know offensive production the leading the leading by example being a great captain is what we love to see as well and then obviously we hope his team is pretty successful as well shout out to any Spokane Chiefs fans if you're watching this video um to continue he's got a pretty good idea of what Hockey Canada's brass is looking for out of him too obviously in relation to potentially playing for the World Junior team uh this upcoming holiday season said i think i've just got to be myself harrington said of his world junior aspirations there's a lot of good players on that team but maybe there's not a lot of guys that can play the game like me playing those hard minutes succeeding on the penalty kill so kind of again he can do it all and he's very you know gritty as well i think just buying into that role knowing those first round picks will be on the power play I can bring a lot more to the team than that but it's just about showing that it can help the team win so he's selling himself a little bit here but obviously he wants to uh you know still be one of those classic hockey guys and give the yeah I just want to help the team win essentially um just to wrap it up here says but for now uh for the team he leads in Spokane finding more success at the WHL level is priority number one it's been so nice to be back in Spokane said Harrington this is my team these are my brothers so it's nice to be back competing with them it's been a blast and again we hope that very much does continue for Mr. Harrington here now let's get into tonight's game as the Flames are back home once again as Calgary hosts Detroit in the '04 throwback jerseys for the first time which will be super cool to see so this one goes at 8 p.m tonight a late one on a Saturday but the Dome should be rocking always nice to play against an original six opponent if you're a viewer of the channel for a long time you know for whatever reason I just don't like Detroit so it'd be nice to get another win here but again should be super cool they're debuting these awesome '04 throwback jerseys they they're only wearing them four times this year against the four opponents they played back in '04 and Detroit is the team I believe we played in the second round of that playoff run so that should be super cool to see them debut kind of got a little bit more info on it so the '04 look returns tonight as Detroit is in Calgary at 8 p.m. It's the first game in the '04 throwbacks. The Black Flaming C with Blasty on the shoulder patches Just a gorgeous jersey. I know it's not everyone's favorite uniform. I'm kind of biased because it's, you know, that's what I grew up on. So I just love those. I love the Blasty on the shoulders over the flags First of four throwback dates this season, as we know. And can Calgary end Detroit's eight-game streak? And some people might be saying eight-game streak. What are you talking about? They're not on an eight-game winning streak. they're on an eight game winning streak against the flames actually as we have the flames versus red wings history here we have a better record than i thought i thought we'd have an awful record against detroit just based off how good they were in the 90s and 2000s stuff i know they were horrible in the 80s maybe that helped when we were good but we're 77 wins we have 79 losses 16 ties and two overtime losses that includes the atlanta flames years the playoffs separately we have six wins and eight losses which again is better than i thought i thought we'd just get destroyed by in Detroit back in the 2000s all the time but obviously not in 04. So Calgary's last win was a 3-0 win way back on March 12, 2022. It's been well over three and a half years so the Flames have lost all eight meetings since with one of those in overtime so 0-7-1. So from 2022-23 through to this season Detroit has won eight straight and Calgary's been outscored 32-12 across those eight meetings so for whatever reason Detroit has had our number lately hopefully we can get that going and maybe we'll have a little more clarity with some lineup notes here um neither of these guys will be playing tonight but it's very interesting to note that it's nice to see that Jonathan Huberdeau was skating and taking shots prior to the morning skate first time we've seen him officially on the ice so we might have Huberdeau back in the lineup uh sooner rather than later which will make some people happy and some people not so happy they do not want Suneel to lose his spot but hopefully it'll be someone else uh Michael Backlund was also out there before the skate which is good to see they are in those yellow jerseys so i don't think they'll be playing tonight i mean maybe Backlund but i really don't think so uh but good good to know that some of our older fellas are getting healthy again which is great to see in terms of the goaltending now uh devin cooley will be starting again tonight so huska riding the hot hand once again no wolf which is funny because at fiery bread man here puts rip Dustin Wolf's kipper gear till at least December Dustin Wolf got these awesome pads that he's been breaking in lately to wear in one of these oh four throwback games it's not happening tonight Devin Cooley has won the starting job once again which isn't a surprise and it's just too bad that Wolf doesn't get to wear those sweet pads on that awesome uniform but hopefully we will get to see those later in December the next time they do wear them and it's funny too because both flames goalies are pretty well rested once again so cooley obviously he has had two starts in the last seven days whereas wolf also has but cooley has made the last two and those have been wins um i don't know if no he's zero sorry wolf has zero in the last seven days yeah cooley has both wolf has zero we have not played that many games so both goalies are technically fresh but again cooley should have been much better and has earned that starting job right now which is which is totally fair we will see what how husker kind of decides and for me again just like against minnesota the main theme will be the special teams that's what it all comes down to for the Flames right now their power play is fifth best in the league the penalty kill is sixth best so if they can continue that going then you know they might have a chance to win tonight Detroit they're funny they start off really slow they've a little bit better and clearly they have our number so it should be a good game no matter what now let's get into the comment of the day to wrap up this video as we love to do here on the channel comes from yesterday's video of course and if you don't agree with this comment you're probably in the wrong place you shouldn't be on this channel but it's so simple here all it reads is go flames with a kind of flame emoji and then the mind exploding emoji as well which is great to see That's all it really is. 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