The Flames would REGRET this...

With the Calgary Flames on a hot streak and certain players playing really well, members of the Sea of Red have of course suggested trading players that are playing well away in order to sell high. The main name now is Joel Farabee, but the Flames would regret trading him if it happened now. 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 to 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 it boils down to one specific thing for me and it's that not everyone needs to go as Joel Farabee sparks a trade debate mostly on Twitter right now within the Sea of Red and it's it's a little bit interesting it's just I think the Flames would regret it if they made a trade now now there are quite a few people talking about it the main tweet though was from Sea of Red Central just because it's more of a prominent Flames account or at least an account that you know just focuses on the Flames so Sea of Red Central said i know people are talking about moving Frost and White Cloud and they should but i think they also need to consider moving Farabee as well nothing personal love the guy but he's playing very well you might just get a haul for him if this continues Cooley too so he's he's saying they should trade Frost and White Cloud but those guys are already involved in the trade rumors now they're saying trade Farabee for sure and trade Cooley just because they're playing well which is just insane this team needs to hold on to some people we can't just keep recycling and going back to these 18 19 20 year olds what are we you know Leo DiCaprio and his in his dating life it just it does not make sense to trade these guys right now maybe eventually not right now one response to this came from Ivan here he says some people on X are suggesting the Flames trade Joel Farabee he's only 26 years old before trading Farabee I would trade Backlund, Strow, Middleton, Sharon Govich and there's other players you can put in there probably I mean if you can you trade Azari but a White Cloud maybe a Frost personally I don't really want to trade either of those guys but Farabee it's just I don't know he just fits the future in a way as Darren Haynes here says we just finished witnessing the type of impact Blake Coleman had and his importance at age 30, 31, 32, 33, 34. Joel Farabee won't turn 30 until february of calgary's third season in scotia place he absolutely can be part of the club's rebuilt future and i'd argue he should be so we're clearly seeing you know a lot of people thinking we should hang on to farabee yes he's not exactly you know young and spry anymore but he's still relatively young and can absolutely be part of that bridge as we get through this rebuild so if we get into a little bit of this here you know he's got his strengths he's got his weaknesses so his power play production connects him directly to calgary's most dangerous unit which is going crazy right now i'll have more on that later in this video but he's valuable for the power play he's creating goals for teammates a useful skill beside calgary's young scores he's setting up these young guys in order for them to develop more keep them around he's getting shots through rather than relying only on passing he scored some goals he's he's getting shots through that's what we want to see maybe there's a weakness in the actual finishing he's definitely more of a playmaker but that's fine again if you can set up those younger guys get them more confident get their numbers going their production and their development most importantly i think that's what's really really great another thing is the contract you still got a couple years i mean obviously you know including this one uh so it's not imminent that you need to trade him away but you can absolutely sign him to a big deal it's not like he's gonna be going after huge money because it's not like his offensive stats are really going to be you know amazing by the end of the year they could very well hit 60 65 70 points which would be pretty nuts to be honest could happen and i know those players now that hit 40 points are demanding 15 mil a year but still it's not gonna end up being a crazy deal afterwards so you know might as well as Ryan Pike puts here again showing kind of his value through 10 games the flames have four wins the third best power play the fifth best penalty kill and Joel Farabee is leading the team in points not only that he's been excellent on the power play and kills those penalties as well so what it all comes down to is the case for keeping him keep Farabee and you keep some perspective here at 26 he can bridge the rebuild the production helps the young core develop 10 games do not establish a new scoring baseline so not even sure what his value is why would you trade someone away who you aren't exactly sure what their trade value is and then revisit his future before his contract expires meaning you can probably try and re-sign him before trading him but that's essentially what it comes down to for Farabee again if he if they trade him away now i think they might live to regret it now let's get into tonight's game as the flames look to stay hot and they're once again playing at home this homestand has been awesome so far uh but 6:30 p.m. the flames take on the Leafs always fun to bring in an original 16 but i mean the leafs have probably the biggest fan base So there's always the chance there's going to be more Leafs fans than Flames fans, which, I mean, just is true. But it should be a fun one either way. In terms of the lineup, there are some crazy things to go over here. So if we look at this, a couple updates. First one is on Michael Backlund. So Michael Backlund was on the ice for morning skate with a regular jersey. He's missed the last two games with an upper body injury. You know, maybe the Flames two best games of the season. That's interesting to note. But he'll be a game time decision. So I'm not saying right here, right now that he is playing or isn't playing. If he is, obviously he just slots right back into his spot. If not, Ben Jones will probably be in. Now, the goaltending is what it really came down to. And it's interesting that Devin Cooley will be starting tonight again against Toronto. It's his fourth consecutive start. Huska is riding the hot hand. Cooley has been awesome between the pipes. He's been better in the post-game interviews. And kind of got that recognition, actually, league-wide, as he was named the NHL's second star of the week. I mean, what's he got to do to be the first star of the week? drop more generational quotes and not allow a single puck through but either way huge congratulations to Cooley for that one well well deserved if we get into the all-time history now between the Flames and Toronto because I guess it's just what I do in all these primers for the games um it's honestly an interestingly close matchup here so in Calgary's franchise history while the Flames franchise history there's 69 wins 72 regulation losses 12 ties and six uh Daryl Sutter points in there but that includes when we were back in Atlanta so since 1972 the last 10 though have been really bad for us we're one six and three in the last 10 against the Leafs Toronto has also won the last eight meetings which is funny because we just played Detroit who had won the previous eight meetings and we won so is that a good omen of things to come it might be it's actually been a long time since we've won against Toronto as well well I mean as I just said it's been eight games but that brings us all the way back to February of 2022 2 was our last win there as you can see it was a 5-2 win since then it's just been loss after loss after loss these are your last five as well all in regulation as well which is not good looks for us but hopefully we can obviously end that streak one guy who looks excited to play here someone who was born here is William Nylander, William Nylander could he be a future Flame who knows but William Nylander spoke on the final well his final game at the Saddledome unless he gets traded here during the season he says it'll be a fun one this building's got some character i was here when i was born watching my dad play so it's been a long time the new one will be really nice but it'll be a fun exciting last game to be honest he usually does play well against the Flames and especially in Calgary so he'll be a guy to keep an eye on i guess on the other team if things start not going our way now back to the goalie situation both goalies are rested able to go Cooley stats are way better this season and like i said you know both goalies were probably ready to go for this one and Huska once again chose Cooley. It'll probably take until a tough back-to-back or a really bad Cooley start for Huska to go back to Wolf, but you gotta kind of start feeling a little bad for Wolf. Once again, key to this game though is the special teams because we're just incredible so far. Fourth best power play in the league right now at 32%, which is crazy. Farabee leading the way. Coronado's actually been dishing loads of helpers on the power play as well, which is great to see and then the penalty kill White Cloud's been tearing up the minutes Backlund if he's in we know how he can do but that that's again what it'll come down to but it's mostly that first power play unit of Frost, Farabee, Coronado, Gridden and Parekh they were insane against Detroit they've been really good lately against Minnesota against Carolina it's just been good hockey from the first power play unit kind of unexpectedly but let's hope that can continue what it's come down to in a way as Darren Haynes points out once again for that top power play unit is new faces more movement and way better results that's what's going on it's you know that's why it's so different from the past couple years which is really nice to see so feel free to make your pick does calgary keep it rolling tonight a yes the flames win their fourth straight or b toronto extends its series streak we don't want to get it to nine but uh who knows that may just happen 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 this is a good one here from flames first here i'll make it a little better uh he says this is the best the flames power play i've ever seen in the past three years well he said he'd never said ever he said i've seen in the past three years the sustainability is another thing but our power play was never supposed to be in the top of the nhl at any point this year the thing i noticed was the skill and the chemistry between players there we know frost and farabee have the chemistry like i said coronado's been dishing but it's great to see i mean Parekh and Graydon have a little chemistry as well but it looks like they're all gelling together so keep them together remember when it was a debate of who would be the top power play unit quarterback and a lot of people we're saying Nemetz that debate's well and truly over so hopefully this unit can keep it going because that has made the games really exciting to watch thank you so much for watching this video please subscribe if you like what you saw here today and have a wonderful rest of your day