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The Calgary Flames have sent Zayne Parekh down to the OHL after a brief stint in the NHL Training Camp. Peter Klein breaks down why this move is nothing to worry about for Flames fans.   Apple Pod: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeH... Twitter: twitter.com/primetimeklein IG: instagram.com/primetimeklein Facebook: www.facebook.com/Couchpotatodiary Twitch: twitch.tv/primetimepk Email: couchpotatodiary@yahoo.com We Had No Idea: every Wednesday morning,  instagram.com/wehadnoideapodcast

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00:00I wasn't necessarily anticipating Talking Flames today, but there's been a couple of

00:11things that have happened at camp, and so I want to just briefly talk about them.

00:15One, Deeds is saying, and I have no reason to believe that he's lying to me, although

00:19I should definitely just, you know, verify this, and while I trust Deeds immensely, this

00:24is also the same chat where someone was trying to get me to watch a YouTube video, so, you

00:28know, is what it is, but let's just go here, my notification, go down, the Calgary Flames

00:34have assigned defenseman Zane Parekh to the Saginaw Spirit.

00:39This is, this is the move to make.

00:41I know.

00:43I know.

00:44I know.

00:45He is this new shiny toy that everyone is very excited about, and that's super duper,

00:50and it's great, and it's fun, and it's all of those things.

00:54But he is not ready yet.

00:56That doesn't mean he's not going to be.

00:57This is no knock on him at all.

00:59This is him being an 18-year-old defenseman in the National Hockey League.

01:03That's very difficult to do.

01:05And so, this isn't an indictment on anything at all.

01:09This is the natural progression of things.

01:12You have a number of young defensemen ahead of him who have looked better than him.

01:16He has such clear and obvious gifts as a player, as a defenseman, all of these things.

01:24But, he also has some very clear and obvious things he needs to work on.

01:29And it just so happens that working on those things in the Ontario Hockey League is kind

01:34of the perfect spot for him.

01:36He needs to fill out a little bit more, and he needs to address his defensive game.

01:40So, do those things.

01:42I think he will do that very effectively, and I think that he will be great one day.

01:47I think that he is a very smart kid.

01:49I think that the defensive limitations that he has, he will figure out.

01:56I just don't think he needs to figure them out at the NHL level.

01:59The OHL is still a good developmental league, and if he had come out and was just undeniable,

02:05then maybe.

02:06But, he's been good, but he hasn't been so good that you have to give him a look as one

02:10of the top six defensemen on this team.

02:14It is not the case.

02:15So, let him go to the Ontario Hockey League, let him develop, let him go kick the shit

02:19out of everyone at the World Juniors, and do all of those things, and just be awesome

02:24in that way.

02:25But you do not need him to go out and do that.

02:29I think Flames fans wanted to see more of him.

02:32I guess maybe.

02:33You could have extended him in preseason maybe a little bit more, but also the Saginaw season's

02:39starting, right?

02:40The WHL season.

02:41Sorry, my cat's being very cute.

02:44The WHL season starts tomorrow, doesn't it?

02:49So, I am assuming that Saginaw's season starts right away, so why... just so that we could

02:54see him a couple times in preseason games when you're not going to be starting him anyway?

02:58Let Brustavich get a few more reps.

02:59Let Poirier get a few more reps.

03:01Let some of these defensemen who you're actually going to play on the NHL roster this year

03:05figure out who they play well with.

03:07Use Training Camp for what it's actually used for, in figuring out where guys fit and trying

03:13to earn some jobs, instead of, well, we want to see this guy because he's a fun, shiny

03:17new toy.

03:18Like, again, preseason is what it is.

03:20I'm not saying that you need to... how could you possibly defile the sanctity of preseason

03:26games by playing a kid in extra games?

03:28I'm not saying that.

03:29It's the preseason.

03:30We all understand this.

03:31But, you have other things that you need to work on and figure out, specifically on this

03:36blue line.

03:37And so to have him taking up spots that he's not going to fill in the regular season anyway,

03:42you may as well just let him go to the Ontario Hockey League right when the season starts

03:45and get into it and just keep doing that.

03:49So I think that that is certainly... again, it would be fun, it would be great, but we

03:54don't need it.

03:55Also, I noted today that Nazem Qadri collided knee-on-knee, I think, with Blake Coleman.

04:00At least that was the last thing that I saw.

04:01So that's awesome and really great.

04:04But hopefully everything is okay on that one because that would be... that would be not

04:09great to have any kind of injury issue to some of the veterans who you kind of want

04:13around this team.

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