We just witnessed a MIRACLE...

Ryan Huska and his young guns on the Calgary Flames quite blatantly performed a miracle last night as they beat the defending Stanley Cup champion Carolina Hurricanes for their second win of this season. But after taking a deep dive, this could be a sign of great things to come. 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, sports and rumors revolving around your Calgary Flames. We would love to welcome you to the Flames Digest family and it's all about last night's game this is where said miracle was performed as Calgary upset the Carolina Hurricanes you know you can call it a scheduled win it was the second of a back-to-back for the Hurricanes they had just played in Winnipeg the night before which is pretty close but not that close so there was some travel mileage and time put into that but no matter how you chalk it up the Flames won and they looked good in this game they had a lot of people stand out and that's essentially what i'm going to be getting into but shout out to Ryan Huska for actually doing something right he really just leaned on the young guys and they played great Devin Cooley was awesome I'm gonna focus mostly on Gridden Parekh Frosty of course a little bit of Kostanya as well but there are so many names we can throw in there of guys who played really good but first I'm just gonna pull up the box score here so Cooley like I said he was great and what was even better than his you know only two goal against performance on 36 shots is 34 save performance .944 save percentage 2.03 goals against average even better than that performance was of course his post-game interview because he you know was playing in his unconscious mind he's using his unconscious brain he played really well when he's too conscious according to him he's not all that good of a goalie apparently he felt nothing after the win it was just overall what a performance but what an even better interview he doubled down this morning again and uh you know said everything he said last night was absolutely true but it was so funny once again the most quotable goalie in the league maybe of all time to be honest that's a stretch but my goodness does this guy have some all-timers of interviews but it was just another great one and a great performance for him his first really good performance of the year Frosty led the way offensively with a goal and an assist Sharky and Gridden got the other goals and gotta be honest all three of the goals were really really good um Coronado gets an assist Faraby gets an assist Middleton gets an assist and Zane Parekh gets an assist on a really nice feed to uh Frost for his one but I am going to focus well actually real quick I'll pull up the entire box score in in case you want to take a look at it uh for the Flames want to take a deeper dive into all the stats here only one pairing or one a couple players I should say didn't do well in terms of plus minus Stroman Pospisil but I mean is that all that unexpected not really now let me focus on Cooley as well so again we're going to pull up his stat line but go a little bit deeper and make it more of a digest sports uh you know graphic here and I mean what a photo of Cooley he's got the best smile in the league too he just loves his you know math and everything but um uh yeah almost played I don't know why that doesn't say 60 minutes I guess there was a little bit of time where he's pulled when you're going on the power play that's why um but yeah again a .944 save percentage was great his best by far so far this year um and what was the key for both him and the team as you can see in this graphic was that the team did really well on the special teams he made three out of three saves on the penalty kill made two out of two saves on the power play too he had to make a couple saves when we were on the power play is that unexpected no of course not uh and stopped 29 of 31 even strength shots as well so we have been a pretty good even strength team we haven't been a great special teams team kind of in the middle of the pack for both especially in terms of finishing chances but the goaltending was spectacular all over the place and we do take a look at his starts this year it was his first quality start as we know if you've been watching all the videos so far this season we know for Dustin Wolf he really only has one quality start as well and it was that win against Anaheim but for Cooley it's his first above .900 save percentage start i mean that one against Colorado was horrendous but did anyone expect differently not really but it's his first win in his first game where he's well above the uh you know save versus expected which is fantastic it really was a great one for him i know Carolina hit three posts in this one or at least three posts in this one might have hit more um and there might have been a little bit of luck but overall Cooley deserved that win as did the Flames and uh a great quote here from Cooley he said everyone's panicking about the goalies everyone just chill out we're gonna be fine Dustin's gonna be fine i'm gonna be fine sometimes you just have a bad start and things aren't going your way and it was certainly a way to bounce back last night but one thing i really wanted to focus on as well as the goaltending was kind of these young guys Eric Francis wrote an article and i'm actually not going to dive into the article just this and then get into my own graphics again but he wrote Matt Vegele and Zane Parekh reminded everyone in a 69 second span on Sunday, that's quite the alliteration, why the future in Calgary could be far more exciting than the present suggests. Eric Francis explains how the young duo sparked the Flames' upset of the Hurricanes. And it's true, right there, kind of late in the second period, I believe it was. Yeah, Parekh with a great assist, Gritten finally with a goal this year, which was great to see. And again, all three goals in this game were great. Gritten, it was crazy of him to get that shot off. The Frost goal was a great passing play and then the the Sharky goal as well to win it in the third um was a great shot by him it popped the water bottle and everything but it was a good play as well but we'll start with Gritten out of all of these guys as uh again for him he finally scored a goal this year after he seemed quite you know confident in the offseason that he would lead the Flames in goals this upcoming season um the stat line isn't exactly you know gonna blow you away just the one hit a couple shots but it's just that he got that goal which is so fantastic crazy play as well where Kuznetsov was on the ice forever and the Flames finally went the other way and scored a goal but if we get into his minutes so far this year like I said for Huska he was more willing to lean into the young guys last night and Gritten was well over his season average of 14 and a half minutes of almost 16 minutes of ice time last night so really you know leaned more on him and some of the other younger guys that it will get into but it was just so happy for Gritten once again and why did this goal specifically matter as we just saw you know the stat line a second ago isn't exactly amazing it was a quick release through traffic so it was actually a nice goal the skill changes the game after a long defensive shift again they were in their own zone forever I think again I think it was Kuznetsov for like three minutes or something went the other way and scored and a younger player gets to make the difference here he finally you know got the monkey off his back and finally seemed to make a difference offensively in this game which has been lacking from Gritten so far this season another guy that both Eric Francis and myself want to focus on is Zane Perreca as he got an assist in this one but he was just way more looked way more confident and dynamic out there he really showed the offensive prowess that we know is the key to his game again it was a great feed on the goal it was overall just a beautiful play it's not like he made the only nice pass on that play but he is well he played without Middleton by his side in this game and it's funny because it's the exact opposite of what we all thought would happen but it almost unlocked him a little bit more being beside Kuznetsov and being maybe leaned on a little bit more I'm glad he didn't play too many minutes because I think that's been an issue so far this year but it was great that he was able to yeah just be unlocked a little bit more looked a bit more confident was great in front of the home crowd so the Frost goal here again this is the one that was assisted by Zane it was in the second period very late in the period it was a beautiful goal made it 2-1 and it was just great again assisted by Parekh and Farabi it was just a beautiful play that's the little graphic of it and all the details you need it says the shot was a tip in it was more of like a finish at the end it's it's hard to say I mean it wasn't a tip in he did have to shoot it but Frost is another guy that we definitely can focus on because again he had the most points for the Flames in this game and arguably the best Flames for this season but that's definitely a conversation to be had he had a goal and an assist he was a plus one on the night played almost 16 minutes as well just like Gritton and overall was fantastic the key thing for me here as well other than the points is the 80% in the face-off dot he was spectacular another guy who was leaned upon quite a bit was actually Jonathan Castagna he also played almost 16 minutes funny that almost all these guys time on ice looks almost the exact same but he was doing well in the face-off dot as well he didn't get any points but he was really really leaned upon in important moments you know to kind of finish off this game especially late in the third which was awesome to see him you know get an elevated role more responsibility and he thrived in there I thought you know again it's not like he got any points but this was probably his best game of the season which i was so happy to see and as you can tell here we looked at Gridden's minutes so far this season Kustanyan was well above his season average of 11 minutes and 17 seconds almost playing 16 minutes as you can tell once again Huska was leaning on the young guys lo and behold it actually resulted in a huge win again this was an upset over a very favored Carolina team for us to get our second win of the season and for Kustanyan you know it's more than just the points he makes his case his line sustained pressure all game which I thought was great he did have a backhand chance that nearly brought him his first NHL goal it would have been awesome if he had gotten that goal but unfortunately didn't and as we just saw Huska rewarded his effort with more opportunity more ice time more opportunity he was on the backland line which is always going to get you know quite a bit of playing time under Huska but still he thrived in that position which I was very very pleased to see for him so where does this bring us in terms of points now I'll move remove my head here uh it actually moves us up to not even bottom of the league anymore we're within striking distance of Vancouver at this point but LA still the only team with a win they've only played six games I don't know why they haven't played at all yet but uh yeah we're now on four points LA just on two uh and we're not far behind Chicago and Vancouver now is that what people want to see not necessarily but it does mean we're only five points out of the playoffs which is uh not where we want to be at the end of the season but it's okay to be there now um but that's kind of what's going on in the wild card picture the best way to show this is like my favorite graphic to show but it's the pacific race look at this and they're off where's the flames oh they take a huge dip and they're just in the bottom there for essentially all of october here but look at that we're ahead of the kings and that is where we remain as of right now Two wins, six losses in eight games for four points. Huska, again, a couple of quotes from him will bring my face back. Hey guys. He says, you want them to have the confidence in those situations that they can be difference makers and they can attack the game. That is of course him talking about the younger guys in which he did lean upon them, which was fantastic to see. So props to all the guys for playing so well last night, but honestly props to Huska as well for doing some good coaching. I know myself and a lot of the fan base, I mean definitely the comment section of this channel aren't big Husker guys but he did some very good coaching last night it was really nice to see and it resulted in honestly what I think was Calgary's best game so far this season one against Anaheim you can say that as well this was against a far superior opponent so do you agree a yes the young guns made the difference b it was the most exciting but Cooley was the difference or c it was a big step with more to prove feel free to let me know in which way was this the best game of the season for the Flames 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 comes from good old one of these years saying white cloud has done and said all the right things since coming to Calgary and heard nothing but trade talk in return sometimes I wish this business could have more of a heart and that's truth as soon as he got here it was already how can we flip White Cloud and he has done and said all the right things been so involved in the community always says the right things but it's just you know in return gets that trade talk that's what happens when you're just a valuable player i suppose especially on a great conroy team but um yeah it is a little heartless at times business does take over the human side but it's good to recognize the human side no matter what 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