On one hand, I get it. He’s not exactly lighting it up and he’s taken a couple big hits. I can see him not quite being NHL ready. On the other hand I felt in his last two games he really started to look confident and made some strong offensive plays. We aren’t a good team, I get not wanting to burn a year but I say give him the green light and see what he can do without the pressure of NEEDING to win.
You can’t send him down, there is no development for him there
The state of this club..
Scratch’em all!!
they can’t seriously be considering sending him back to Junior. Has he struggled more than someone like Weegar? certainly not when you consider he is 19.
send him down on a conditioning stint, manage his load in the NHL, and send him to world juniors. use the rest of the new year to get him stronger and end the season playing every game. You cannot risk stalling his development just to nickel and dime him on his ELC sliding.
The perfect solution would be wranglers time, its so lame that theres rules against that tho
Damn son
I swear to god if he gets sent to juniors. Why do they care about his ELC? With a prospect with Zaynes potential your priority can’t be saving elc years, you let the guy stay with the team and play him, even if it’s sheltered minutes and not the full 82 games
How tf has he struggled in the nhl? He makes less goal giving errors than Weegar. Hes looked perfectly fine for a 19 year old defender
Conroy, I mean come on. I couldn’t be happier with what you’ve done after being dealt a shit hand, but you gotta let this kid play. This is a big moment
To this franchise, “You are not serious people.”
This is going to be downvoted but I don’t give a fuck. Huska needs to be fired. He’s favoring veterans, not letting kids play, fucking Sutter 2.0.
I swear to god if Parekh gets sent down and I have to watch a whole season of Miromanov and Bean
This team is going to make a trade of young good players and picks for a 30 year old mid 6 player aren’t they? Delude themselves into thinking this team is good enough.
The only thing ive really noticed he struggles with is keeping his head up. He’s taken more than a few pretty hard hits, (some borderline imo).
We aren’t a good team and most nights we are being ran through. There is development in a year that we aren’t good, but the trade off is possibly losing him to injury from one of the many massive hits he takes when we are being thrown around and outscored by 3 goals.
Really a shame the A Isn’t viable for him. Hard to develop in the NHL when the team doesn’t give you much support.
It sucks that we can’t make special accommodations for young players that are dominant in junior but not quite there in the NHL. The AHL would be perfect for Parekh right now. Lots of reps, less pressure, less talent. I don’t hate the idea of sending him to WJHC but then we can’t bring him back up unless it’s emergency recall
Keep him here, play him as much you can, get his confidence up at the world juniors and come back and play more. It’s time for the kids to learn. This is the time for them to make mistakes.
These chat-GPT lineups are getting a little crazy folks
Can he not go to Penn State and take chemistry with McKenna
Be dumb af to send him to junior. They need to stop sheltering him and let him play top4 mins and figure it out. He’ll figure it out
That’s disappointing, one of the main reasons I look forward to watching this team play is watching Parekh. Honestly he hasn’t been any worse than any of our other defenseman.
Flames is not a serious franchise and Huska is not a serious coach…
Dunno, feels like that’s how you piss off a really good young prospect to me.
Type of thing that a player wouldn’t forget.
Do not fuck this up Flames.
I know he cant play NCAA cause he signed his ELC, but why did they sign him? If they didnt sign him he could have played in the NCAA this year and it would have been a great alternative to the AHL. Am I missing something?
Skip playing the young guys this year and max out the cap to build a playoff team of all rental players . Lol
Junior is pointless. I say keep him up and have him play 50 games or something. The schedule is grueling so it’s not a bad idea to shield him from the full 82. I know people will say that he should be playing games and that sitting out stunts his development…to that I would say getting 40 or 50 NHL games is way better experience than, for example, a season of college where they also only play 40ish games.
Plus, watching games from the press box might benefit him more than most other prospects too because he actually has half a brain on him. He might actually learn something up there. He can hit the gym harder in-season too.
The main risk with that plan is that he’s not ready to step in to a full time schedule next year and has to go to the A. Then it’s a wasted season. But if keeping him up here gets him to playing full time next year, then I’d say that’s way better than sticking him back in junior.
Unconventional and wildly speculative I know. Just throwing it out there that it might not be the craziest way to go about it.
For a coach whose whole thing is “young player development”, he really seems to be doing anything but that
Just play him ffs, who cares if it burns a year? This is supposed to be our future superstar, sending him back to juniors at this point is as pointless as scratching him. You can’t tell me he’s been any worse than the rest of our defensemen, Weegar specifically has been shockingly bad so far and there’s no world Jake fucking Bean deserves a roster spot over Parekh. The rookie is supposed to be making these mistakes, not the vets.
Incredibly frustrating watching Schaefer excel with the Isles because they’re giving him every opportunity to find his footing in the NHL and it’s paying off early for them. Season’s already a write off as far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely no reason we shouldn’t be playing him imo.
They have to shit or get off the pot, not just with Zayne, but with the season. Do they want to play the kids – play them, let them take their lumps, and use this year to grow? Or send him back to play. Sitting the young guys does nothing to develop them. If they want to make an unlikely (and stupid run imo) at a wildcard spot, then commit one way or another.
Zayne stuff aside, WTF are they doing with Zary? Is the plan to force him out? Player development has not been good this year.
I’m not saying it would be good for his development or is a real serious option just a hypothetical scenario for you more knowledgeable folks than me…
Could he go and play in Europe for a season? How would that affect the contract and return the following year?
I don’t get this logic at all. With how fast the cap is going up and how much of a game changer he could be in his prime, it’s almost better to burn year 1 now and let it expire sooner. If we wait an extra year he might be significantly better and earn a much bigger raise.
Least serious org in the NHL
Am I alone in thinking he’s been solid? Like he’s not potting crazy points but he’s only a -2 on a 32nd team
Better get top 4 future studs Hanley and Bean in for their very crucial development. The FUTURE IS NOW, BOYS
Send him to Europe for a year
Find that man a loaner team to play pro in Europe, stat
Roll out the AHL rule change already 🙄🙄 such a handicap if you’re a non-NCAA/junior American league player
Buium has had such a nice ramp to the NHL that Parehk is barred from for such an arbitrary rule. Really frustrating.
Can’t wait to dump Conroy and Huska after we land McKenna
I wonder if they’re going to take the same approach Seattle took with Wright years ago. Scratch him until he’s eligible for a conditioning stint in the ahl, then let him play in the world juniors and send him down to end the season and have a playoff run in the chl. Does anyone know if this is still allowed?
Still I’d say that would be a mistake. I think more play time would be better for his development. He’s looked really good imo, the team just can’t score so he’s not getting the stats.
The whole roster has struggled. Let the kid play
If this is how we’re treating one of our best prospects in years it’s concerning what they will do if we do get McKenna or any top pick
Does he have to go to an OHL club, or would he be able to play at an ncaa program?
I don’t know how that works tbh
At this point we will get McKenna and Huska will play him 6 minutes a night with Lomberg and Kirkland
Burning a year of ELC probably would be the best bet. That way when they’re still fucking around with his development and deployment in the next 2 years he might not have popped and can get him on a longterm sweetheart deal for his next contract
A team with Hanley, Bean, Pachal as dmen can’t find room for Parehk wow. our team is too stacked I guess
Full disclosure – not a Flames fan but I live here and desperately want this team to be good. I have corporate seats and often entertain clients, and if the flames are playing anybody other than my Avs I’m going for them.
But holy cow, fellas. This is an absolutely embarrassing public display of prospect development.
The Flames bemoan how players (stars) won’t stay and then treat their most talented young players like this.
This is what happens when you have cheap ownership – a cheap GM, cheap coach & cheap hockey.
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On one hand, I get it. He’s not exactly lighting it up and he’s taken a couple big hits. I can see him not quite being NHL ready. On the other hand I felt in his last two games he really started to look confident and made some strong offensive plays. We aren’t a good team, I get not wanting to burn a year but I say give him the green light and see what he can do without the pressure of NEEDING to win.
You can’t send him down, there is no development for him there
The state of this club..
Scratch’em all!!
they can’t seriously be considering sending him back to Junior. Has he struggled more than someone like Weegar? certainly not when you consider he is 19.
send him down on a conditioning stint, manage his load in the NHL, and send him to world juniors. use the rest of the new year to get him stronger and end the season playing every game. You cannot risk stalling his development just to nickel and dime him on his ELC sliding.
The perfect solution would be wranglers time, its so lame that theres rules against that tho
Damn son
I swear to god if he gets sent to juniors. Why do they care about his ELC? With a prospect with Zaynes potential your priority can’t be saving elc years, you let the guy stay with the team and play him, even if it’s sheltered minutes and not the full 82 games
How tf has he struggled in the nhl? He makes less goal giving errors than Weegar. Hes looked perfectly fine for a 19 year old defender
Conroy, I mean come on. I couldn’t be happier with what you’ve done after being dealt a shit hand, but you gotta let this kid play. This is a big moment
To this franchise, “You are not serious people.”
This is going to be downvoted but I don’t give a fuck. Huska needs to be fired. He’s favoring veterans, not letting kids play, fucking Sutter 2.0.
I swear to god if Parekh gets sent down and I have to watch a whole season of Miromanov and Bean
This team is going to make a trade of young good players and picks for a 30 year old mid 6 player aren’t they? Delude themselves into thinking this team is good enough.
The only thing ive really noticed he struggles with is keeping his head up. He’s taken more than a few pretty hard hits, (some borderline imo).
We aren’t a good team and most nights we are being ran through. There is development in a year that we aren’t good, but the trade off is possibly losing him to injury from one of the many massive hits he takes when we are being thrown around and outscored by 3 goals.
Really a shame the A Isn’t viable for him. Hard to develop in the NHL when the team doesn’t give you much support.
It sucks that we can’t make special accommodations for young players that are dominant in junior but not quite there in the NHL. The AHL would be perfect for Parekh right now. Lots of reps, less pressure, less talent. I don’t hate the idea of sending him to WJHC but then we can’t bring him back up unless it’s emergency recall
Keep him here, play him as much you can, get his confidence up at the world juniors and come back and play more. It’s time for the kids to learn. This is the time for them to make mistakes.
These chat-GPT lineups are getting a little crazy folks
Can he not go to Penn State and take chemistry with McKenna
Be dumb af to send him to junior. They need to stop sheltering him and let him play top4 mins and figure it out. He’ll figure it out
That’s disappointing, one of the main reasons I look forward to watching this team play is watching Parekh. Honestly he hasn’t been any worse than any of our other defenseman.
Flames is not a serious franchise and Huska is not a serious coach…
Dunno, feels like that’s how you piss off a really good young prospect to me.
Type of thing that a player wouldn’t forget.
Do not fuck this up Flames.
I know he cant play NCAA cause he signed his ELC, but why did they sign him? If they didnt sign him he could have played in the NCAA this year and it would have been a great alternative to the AHL. Am I missing something?
Skip playing the young guys this year and max out the cap to build a playoff team of all rental players . Lol
Junior is pointless. I say keep him up and have him play 50 games or something. The schedule is grueling so it’s not a bad idea to shield him from the full 82. I know people will say that he should be playing games and that sitting out stunts his development…to that I would say getting 40 or 50 NHL games is way better experience than, for example, a season of college where they also only play 40ish games.
Plus, watching games from the press box might benefit him more than most other prospects too because he actually has half a brain on him. He might actually learn something up there. He can hit the gym harder in-season too.
The main risk with that plan is that he’s not ready to step in to a full time schedule next year and has to go to the A. Then it’s a wasted season. But if keeping him up here gets him to playing full time next year, then I’d say that’s way better than sticking him back in junior.
Unconventional and wildly speculative I know. Just throwing it out there that it might not be the craziest way to go about it.
For a coach whose whole thing is “young player development”, he really seems to be doing anything but that
Just play him ffs, who cares if it burns a year? This is supposed to be our future superstar, sending him back to juniors at this point is as pointless as scratching him. You can’t tell me he’s been any worse than the rest of our defensemen, Weegar specifically has been shockingly bad so far and there’s no world Jake fucking Bean deserves a roster spot over Parekh. The rookie is supposed to be making these mistakes, not the vets.
Incredibly frustrating watching Schaefer excel with the Isles because they’re giving him every opportunity to find his footing in the NHL and it’s paying off early for them. Season’s already a write off as far as I’m concerned, there is absolutely no reason we shouldn’t be playing him imo.
They have to shit or get off the pot, not just with Zayne, but with the season. Do they want to play the kids – play them, let them take their lumps, and use this year to grow? Or send him back to play. Sitting the young guys does nothing to develop them. If they want to make an unlikely (and stupid run imo) at a wildcard spot, then commit one way or another.
Zayne stuff aside, WTF are they doing with Zary? Is the plan to force him out? Player development has not been good this year.
I’m not saying it would be good for his development or is a real serious option just a hypothetical scenario for you more knowledgeable folks than me…
Could he go and play in Europe for a season? How would that affect the contract and return the following year?
I don’t get this logic at all. With how fast the cap is going up and how much of a game changer he could be in his prime, it’s almost better to burn year 1 now and let it expire sooner. If we wait an extra year he might be significantly better and earn a much bigger raise.
Least serious org in the NHL
Am I alone in thinking he’s been solid? Like he’s not potting crazy points but he’s only a -2 on a 32nd team
Better get top 4 future studs Hanley and Bean in for their very crucial development. The FUTURE IS NOW, BOYS
Send him to Europe for a year
Find that man a loaner team to play pro in Europe, stat
Roll out the AHL rule change already 🙄🙄 such a handicap if you’re a non-NCAA/junior American league player
Buium has had such a nice ramp to the NHL that Parehk is barred from for such an arbitrary rule. Really frustrating.
Can’t wait to dump Conroy and Huska after we land McKenna
I wonder if they’re going to take the same approach Seattle took with Wright years ago. Scratch him until he’s eligible for a conditioning stint in the ahl, then let him play in the world juniors and send him down to end the season and have a playoff run in the chl. Does anyone know if this is still allowed?
Still I’d say that would be a mistake. I think more play time would be better for his development. He’s looked really good imo, the team just can’t score so he’s not getting the stats.
The whole roster has struggled. Let the kid play
If this is how we’re treating one of our best prospects in years it’s concerning what they will do if we do get McKenna or any top pick
Does he have to go to an OHL club, or would he be able to play at an ncaa program?
I don’t know how that works tbh
At this point we will get McKenna and Huska will play him 6 minutes a night with Lomberg and Kirkland
Burning a year of ELC probably would be the best bet. That way when they’re still fucking around with his development and deployment in the next 2 years he might not have popped and can get him on a longterm sweetheart deal for his next contract
A team with Hanley, Bean, Pachal as dmen can’t find room for Parehk wow. our team is too stacked I guess
Full disclosure – not a Flames fan but I live here and desperately want this team to be good. I have corporate seats and often entertain clients, and if the flames are playing anybody other than my Avs I’m going for them.
But holy cow, fellas. This is an absolutely embarrassing public display of prospect development.
The Flames bemoan how players (stars) won’t stay and then treat their most talented young players like this.
This is what happens when you have cheap ownership – a cheap GM, cheap coach & cheap hockey.