This keeps getting HOTTER and HOTTER... Friedman LINKS Connor Zary to Vancouver | Calgary Flames News

The Connor Zary situation continues to get hotter and hotter and it was a key topic of discussion for Elliot Friedman on Saturday Night Headlines. Plus, the Calgary Flames continue their bid for the cleanest tank ever, despite Idar Sounyev trying to give this team some goals. 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 and the Flames came into last night's game as the only team without a point they still have yet to win a game and lo and behold in case you missed it the Flames well they just did what they do they lost 4-2 to Anaheim last night it they kept it close I guess is what we can say you know it was tied in the third period but they just could not get this one out against the Anaheim Ducks awesome to see Sounyev get his first career goal that was so cool to see in person um but the Flames just could not get it done which is too bad they they had really good moments in this game but they just could not pull it out and to be quite honest once again it was in no thanks to the goaltending as we get to the box score here Dustin Wolf gives up four goals on 28 shots for once again a well below sub .900 save percentage he is off to one of the worst seasons a goalie has ever had through the first three games um but he is just it's not necessarily like he played awful or anything but these statistics are catching up to him like he's he's just not stopping enough pucks which is too bad again can you blame him for the loss not necessarily but it was tough we got into the goal scores like I said Sounyev did score which was amazing to see you could see how much that goal meant to him he's a bit more of a nonchalant kind of guy but he really erupted with emotion there which was so cool a huge congratulations to him again Morgan Frost scored a really clean and tidy goal actually set up by Matty Coronado who gets two assists on the night pretty sure it was yesterday's video or maybe the day before where I said you know where are Frost where's Coronado where's Gritton I mean Gritton got demoted Sunyaev got to play on the first line but great to see Frost and Coronado get on the score sheet there and then Nemitz and Ball were actually the best D pairing Nemitz got an assist in this game which was great but they were both also a plus two which isn't exactly easy to do when you lose by a couple goals but I didn't necessarily think they played amazing or anything but they were definitely our best D pairing which was you know a big shout out to them for playing really really well for the full box score here I'll just pull it up for a second feel free to pause take a look at the entire stats here I mean it's it's too much for me to read through all of them but I always like to throw them in there just in case you're interested in taking a look but like I said I would say the biggest offensive driver last night was Matt Coronado sure it was a really nice finish by Frost on Frost's goal but I thought Coronado getting the primary assists on both goals for the Flames was really really good here as you can see he got a couple assists there's his full kind of box score for just him he had a shot on goal as well it was kind of funny for Sunyaev's goal as well you almost were disappointed in the play that Coronado originally made where he tried to go around the defender and then went behind the net but then made a nice pass which was great but how could I not you know shout out the main man himself as well the one goal first career NHL goal for Sunyaev he was a plus one on the night in a little bit under 16 minutes of playing time had a couple shots as well so big for him he obviously scored the tying goal actually that tied this one at two as you can see here the graphic isn't quite right because it's from the left side but still this is exactly you know the stats as you can say as you can see scored late in the second period to tie it was five on five uh it was against billy who so this is just one of the many you know graphics that i'll be able to make now which I think is just so cool but as you can see goal number one of this season as we know it was his first career goal on a wrist shot and he had a little quote as well he said you dream about it scoring your first goal and here it is so once again I think he's going to be the guy who maybe he didn't start the year with the Flames he's probably here to stay I would be really really upset to be honest if he's the guy who goes out once Huberto is healthy I think the fan base would absolutely agree with me there because it just seems like he wants it so bad and he clearly has some offensive prowess to his game and can get some goals so would love to see Sunev stay up now uh if we take a quick little look at the standings here i mean this is one version of it if we get the wild card picture as you can see we're nowhere in sight let me remove my head so you can see the full thing here we're the only team again in the league that doesn't have a single point uh in terms of the Western Conference here i mean LA and Chicago are barely ahead of us they only have two points a piece but um yeah we're still the only team without a point as we pull up a little meme here uh from the Flames Reddit it was has your team earned a point this season the quote of course the season started almost two weeks ago every single team is there except us we're saying uh yeah we we still don't have any points but you just gotta laugh through the pain our next opportunity to get a point though comes funnily enough against Anaheim once again is as you can see through five games we've played Seattle a couple times Vancouver Anaheim and Colorado zero points zero wins we haven't even lost we haven't even got a Daryl Sutter point that was our closest one four two but our next one is actually over in Anaheim on Tuesday so a place where we never used to be able to win period now we're the worst team in the league will we have a chance uh i don't know i'm not too sure i'm not gonna hold my breath on it now let's move on to the first i guess big Zary f-bomb here of the season f-bomb of course meaning a Friedman bomb as if you were watching you know Saturday Night Headlines last night Elliot Friedman he was talking about Zary in the Zary situation and he made quite a quote here and linked Vancouver uh to the disgruntled forward that's currently playing with the Wranglers he said i do think Vancouver is one of the teams that has looked at Zary so that's you know Friedman officially linking the Vancouver Canucks to Connor Zary could a trade work out i was kind of talking to Mark Pi who's the host of Canucks Digest about it and he seems down he's like yeah we'll throw in a fourth or fifth round pick to make it work and i thought you know without retention i'm down for for anything at this point but in terms of you know the cap space Vancouver can afford to take Zary they are doing great in terms of their cap space as you can see from the graphic here so they absolutely could make something work if they wanted to whether it was you know we would prefer not to retain on Zary's salary it's not like it's that high but I guess it's that high for a player going through what he's currently going through another quote here from Friedman continuing he said I don't get the sense anything is imminent right now so he definitely is ready to link Zary to certain teams but it doesn't sound like anything is absolutely imminent right now for the Flames which is kind of funny we'll see how things go you know as he continues to play for the Wranglers obviously he had a very good debut there the other night so we'll see in terms of his contract it's it's just 3.77 mil at least that's what this one says I always thought it was 3.75 but that's very affordable and obviously expires in 2028 so it's it's quite close Friedman had another comment on you know the retention so he said the Flames only have one retention spot available and they don't want to retain money so it's probably going to take something creative again we would prefer not to retain if it's to Vancouver you know they definitely don't need there to be retention they just obviously wouldn't give up as much to acquire him I do think Zary would instantly just be a part of the Canucks lineup though for us you know in terms of our cap space as well we have the space to retain but like Friedman's saying it's not like we necessarily want to use another retention spot on Zary we'd rather be able to you know just get this over and done with and it's funny Friedman isn't the only one talking about it this was a comment actually from a recent video on the channel someone said 3.775 is a lot for a guy that was in the press box on game two probably had something to do with the decision to place him on waivers but it's also significant contract for another team to take a chance on him I always see 3.775 mil as not that much but it is true not everyone has our cap space it's funny because you can look at Vancouver and they do have the cap space but not every team is like that i don't think Zary's gonna go to a contender that's in a cap bind anyway but that is obviously something to consider now it is i guess a bit of a buy low case here for whoever would be acquiring him as you can see the strengths are you know goals per 60 giveaways per game he does pretty good that's not too bad can we actually make this a little bit different yeah there this is even better so his goal rate leaves a case for buying low which is fair enough he does give the puck away less often than most qualified skaters though which you know you look at advanced stats here maybe i'm just trying to sell Zary but um yeah weaknesses his overall scoring rate trails the middle of the pack and that's fine i mean he hasn't necessarily been given the best opportunity so it is a buy low scenario for a lot of teams but i'm almost here to say hey Zary's great let's let's sell let's sell as high as possible um last little thing here is another thing to sell him up is penalties drawn and taken so he definitely draws more penalties than he takes so that's another reason why we could say hey he's worth something maybe he's worth more than a fifth or a fourth round pick maybe he could still go for a second i mean i'm just in dreamland when i say that um but yeah i would like to say that he still has some qualities that we could sell but again i'm not gonna you know hold my breath on that so what should Calgary do with Zary either a wait for a better offer because there's clearly nothing good right now it hasn't been for the past season and off season or should they move him for just a practical return now get rid of this scenario get rid of the drama and just you know leave it in the past water under the bridge feel free to let me know down below in the comments and speaking of comments 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 the clean new comment of the day graphic this one was funny here from Daryl Sutter's favorite account saying we're winning the race to the bottom as you can tell that one got a few likes and it just is true i mean it's it's definitely a rebuild year it certainly is turning into an absolute tank we're oh and five our worst season we've ever had um so yeah we are winning the race currently it's a close race again there's teams like chicago um philly and la that are right there but so far we're winning the race to the bottom at zero points 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