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We have some genuinely kind of crazy updates as last night was a very strange night for Flames first round picks and prospects. Plus, the lineup looks very interesting as the Calgary Flames aim to get their first win of the season in tonight's tilt against the Anaheim Ducks. 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 quickly before we get into you know what we're going to be talking about in this video I just wanted to say it really does help out when you subscribe it's free helps out the channel a ton you can join the Flames Digest family and I sincerely appreciate it so a thank you in advance if you hit that subscribe button but let's get into these first rounders as this is kind of an update that I've never really shared before but Ryan Pike puts it perfectly as it was a good night for Flames first rounders and this was just so far when he tweeted it out last night but the Flames I mean they still have a lot of first rounders in the system obviously there's the guys mentioned here Zary, Potter, Reschignewitz, Hextall there's you know guys like Perek and Gridden of course that are playing with the Flames um you know some some other guys as well like Carl's just recently drafted but last night was actually really really interesting and genuinely kind of crazy the first guy we'll talk about is Connor Zary because he is a former Flames first round pick back in 2020 recently waived and sent down to the Wranglers and he had a goal in his first game back with the Wranglers first time in years that he has played with them so just wanted to point this out here that even Elliot Freedman was tweeting about how Connor Zary scores in his first AHL game he says first AHL game it's his first AHL game of the season and again first one in years but he actually opened the scoring uh in the game against the Condors it's pretty good goal it was a good play um got set up beautifully in front and what i like too is that who's the first person he's hugging there in that little screenshot it is Paul who was of course sent down with Zary at the same time both cleared waivers both playing for their first game for the Wranglers in a long time Paul it's not his first game with the Wranglers either but first one in a while um but uh yeah that was awesome to see Zary score it almost you know the celebration wasn't over the top but it almost made you feel like maybe he has a love for hockey again a lot of people just call it you know a wake-up call but again i was super pumped for Zary that he did end up scoring he might not ever play a game in the NHL with the Flames again but i was still happy to see that for sure and who knows maybe there is actually a happy ending with the Flames and Zary at some point but i'm not gonna you know hold my breath on that the next one well I'm actually going to just put it into two, was Cullen Potter and Jack Hextall, both scoring goals for Michigan State. Awesome to see Potter back playing after, you know, the horrible injury that ended his season last year. And then Hextall, obviously just a recent first rounder in 2026. I know in Ryan Pike's tweet there, it says 2026 for Reshni, of course is a 2025 first round pick, but still Hextall, the second of two first rounders in the most recent draft, Colin Potter, the second of two first rounders uh isn't that also supposed to say 2025 maybe he's just completely tripping here maybe maybe he was a little bit excited when he tweeted this out I swear both uh you know Potter and Reshni were 2025 I could also be wrong but uh yeah a couple of second first round picks in action for the Spartans and they did end up getting the win so super happy for them uh they ended up winning 6-2 Hextall excited for him as well scoring he actually got the last goal of the game here to make it 6-2 but good that you know already we're having a couple of our guys play you know meaningful hockey that looks like they're on a great team which we absolutely want we want them to develop as much as possible and the more winning hockey you play the more hockey you get to play and happy that they're both scoring as well now the last guy if we go back to the Ryan Pike tweet here is Reshney so Reshney has two goals for North Dakota that is actually how this game did end up finishing was with just two goals but a 3-2 win he got the game winner as you can see with the graphic there it was kind of all about him which was great the key thing for me as well is if we bring up his stats I'll put it in the bigger window here is last year it's not like he had a bad season he had 35 points in 36 games but what's kind of the glaring thing here for Flames fans is that he only scored six goals in 36 games in just one game so far this year with the University of North Dakota he has two goals already so if people were you know gonna nitpick Reshney they'd say hey maybe he's lost his scoring touch he can't score anymore well I know we're just one game in but already he has a third of his goal total from last season so so excited for Reshney seeing him play so well I'm stoked for the world juniors this year which is something I haven't said in a long time but I'm stoked for the world juniors this year because Reshney will very likely be the captain of that team put him in a leadership role so excited to see what he can do with the world juniors and just continue to develop with UND this year I was so happy to see that he got a couple goals he's going to be one of the best players in college hockey this season now let's get into tonight's game as the flames are back at the dome for yet another matchup trying to get their first win of the year this one going against the Anaheim Ducks this one at 8 p.m tonight very excited to say that I will actually be going to this game I hope it's not my final game at the Saddle Dome attending in person but super excited to go see hey if you run into me feel free to say hi always happy to meet you guys but what's really interesting for me is the lineup so no one at the time of recording this anyway has tweeted out what the lines actually yard, but yesterday we maybe got a glimpse of what the lineup is looking like. So there will actually be no Sammy Hanzik As Pat Steinberg confirmed this morning, Sam Hanzik is unavailable and won't play tonight versus Anaheim. He hasn't skated the last two days. I don't know if he's just extra hurt, if he's sick, he's pregnant. I don't know what's going on with Sammy, but either way, he's not playing tonight. Brendan Hoffman and Joel Hanley were on the ice late after the optional morning skate they'll be the other scratches which means that Sipilka is back in and with the lines that warm up Dustin Wolf will be the goalie tonight the lines yesterday in practice had Sunyev on the top line taking Gritten's spot alongside Frost and Coronado so great opportunity here for Sunyev again i can't 100 guarantee that these will be the lines tonight but it's always a great indication the only thing is that Hoffman is in here whereas he's getting scratched with which I really hope means that Georgie that Kistanyaw will be in there hopefully actually centering that fourth line between Pospisil and Klapka otherwise Gritten getting I guess demoted to the second line but a second line of Gritten, Stroman, Sipilka that's got to be one of the worst second lines in the league if not the worst second line in the league how bad are we we're or we're 0-4 we're already the laughingstock of the league and Sipilka is on our second line that is just absolutely disgusting Farabee Backlund and Sharkey are on your third line Sharkey the best Flames player from the last game him and Kistanyaw were kind of the only two standouts in that shellacking from Colorado that we faced but uh yeah deep pairings they remain the same Nemitz with ball Kuznetsov with like cloud per rec and Middleton so that is quite interesting there are a couple guys that I kind of want to highlight too one from each team uh let me pull them up in the bigger window here the first one is Mr. Big contract Leo Carlsson uh so a little bit of a scouting report on him he's having you know a relatively quiet season i'd say so far uh well i'd say quiet he'd definitely be the best player on the Flame so far but i'd say he's the player to keep an eye out the most on on the Ducks tonight is Carlsson mostly just because that big contract he's also a very exciting player i know he's the type of player that we would love to see you know on our team one day but it's a player like him anyway but I would definitely keep an eye out for him another thing I wanted to point out was Zane Perreault because a lot of people have been underwhelmed by him so far this year if we kind of take a look at where his shots are coming from I really want him to break out I want him to score I'm not just saying that because I'm going to the game tonight but it looks like he's taking a lot of his shots as you can see from the chart here most of his shots are coming from the point but as we've seen in the past if He can kind of sneak up and get a little bit closer to the net. He can score some great goals. Remember that one against LA last season in the last game. So I'd love to see him try and get a little bit closer to the net and take some more shots. He has just 0.6 expected goals on the season so far, zero goals. So I'd love to see him really take over. I feel like he's the player to do that on a Saturday night at the Dome. Would love to see it. Next graphic I'm going to show is one I showed yesterday, but it's the points race just because I love how sick this graphic looks. But this is kind of the points race, the standings race for the Pacific. We know we're not in a race to actually win the Pacific. We're already eight points behind Vegas. Just four games into the year. Of course, we're at the bottom. I mean, I have like a depression beard going because of how bad this season's going. I haven't shaved in a while. But I'm going to show that graphic as much as I can just because I love it so much. But we just have that decline right at the beginning of the season. And then hopefully we'll just plateau at the bottom and can get a top pick. last thing i'll say for tonight's game is will the flames get their first win i mean maybe i'm just trying to show all the graphics that i can possibly show but there's two options yes we'll finally show we're a competent hockey team it might happen but i mean let's be realistic here no let's be realistic here mark that's probably the option but feel free to let me know will we get our first win tonight against the ducks 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 another kind of new I guess graphic I can make is look how sweet this looks for the comment of the day this one comes from HR burgers and it was just so heartwarming to see there were actually so many comments from yesterday's video so thank you so much for the support I sincerely appreciate it but this one was awesome said I'm new to this channel but I've been looking to find a channel that is exactly what you're doing here so I'm excited to be with you for years to come I gotta be honest there are some massive changes coming to just the digest media network there's going to be a whole website that's going to be the place to go for stats games everything I'll talk about it more next week because I think the full launch is coming on Thursday but there as you already know things are wrapping up like crazy this season all the graphics the new look everything there's more to come trust me it's going to be great could even do more content as well there could be you know more articles from us actual like shorts or live streams so many things just pumped to say that but so happy to have all of you along it's honestly i mean i'm just going to be blunt here it's going to be the place to go for flames content i'm telling you that right now so excited to have you guys along thank you so much for the support thank you for watching this video please subscribe if you like what you saw here today and have a wonderful rest of your day