Flames NAIL 2025 Draft: Reschny’s Grit, Potter’s Speed & Why Calgary’s Future Just Brightened

Peter Klein

The Calgary Flames did an amazing job at the NHL Draft again! Peter Klein breaks down: • Reschny Deep Dive: WHL stud with top-6 upside   • Potter’s X-Factor: NCAA standout’s elite skating   • How Stockselius/Wyttenbach fit Calgary’s identity     #Flames #NHLDraft #YYC #HockeyTwitter    Grade the Flames’ draft in comments! 👇 Subscribe for NHL Off-Season coverage  🎧 Listen on: Apple https://apple.co/49NGm2L | Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/3QgazeHcSKSteZbBIubcuM?si=icY7NEBvT7yZadv_JFlT6Q  💬 Follow for live breakdowns: X.com/primetimepk | Twitch.tv/primetimepk  | Kick.com/primetimepk  🔗 Support the Show:   - Tip Jar: https://streamelements.com/couchpotatodiary/tip (fuels more content!)   - Partners: C of Dead http://cofdead403.ca/ | Swift Energy https://www.swiftenergy.gg/?ref=mriusnqm PROMO CODE: PKPrimetime for 25% Off!

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00:00guys this is a new spot for us uh because this is two years in a row now where we're talking

00:14about how well the calgary flames did in terms of their draft and that's not something like look

00:21there have been a lot of times where the flames have had trouble getting the draft right one year

00:26in a row let alone multiple years i would have to go back and see like where is the stretch where it's

00:30like man killed it but it seems like again the consensus is they killed it let's look up at the

00:36top as reshni i just think he adds some dog down the middle for this team's prospect pool we talked

00:43about him as a target on the podcast and in the draft preview i talked about him again on sportsnet

00:49960 it was kind of our consensus that that was the way it should go and that is the way that it went

00:54um if this hits it is not the high-end prospect that i think people in calgary so greatly desire

01:01i don't think it is that but i think that this is if it hits in the way that it could it is a

01:07potential like high-end number two center for the organization but even if it doesn't even if it is

01:13the the size is an issue or anything like that i just feel like this kid with the competitive spirit

01:19that he has with the hockey iq that he has i think he is going to be able to find a way to be a

01:26productive winning player in the national hockey league and he is another one that it just it feels

01:33like he could have played like the version of him that we are expecting he feels like he is the type

01:41of player that could fit in that stanley cup final that we just watched with florida and edmonton like

01:47his style feels like he fits into that even though he has a touch undersized so sam bennett you know

01:53brad marchand's not the biggest dude in the world i'm not saying he can get to those levels i am just

01:58saying the way he plays the aggression that he plays with and how smart he is it feels like he is

02:03going to be able to find a role here and so it does really feel like the floor is just solid middle

02:08six guy for a long time with them and now they take another kind of a lottery ticket type of a

02:13move at 32 with colin porter or um yeah right uh um not trusting my typing here all of a sudden and

02:21not trusting the uh the old memory colin potter that's right i had potter written down and then

02:25i just didn't believe it um but this is this is the type of swing that i love seeing a team take

02:31at like 32 and especially for the flames where it feels like you get i don't want to call it safe

02:36because that a i think that puts limitations on what you think reshny could be and also

02:41maybe overstates things a touch but about as safe as you feel let's go with a high upside thing now

02:48here with potter and i think you get that he probably isn't going to spend a whole lot of time

02:53as a professional down the middle but he has uh everyone saying that he is the best skater in this

02:59draft adding pace and skill to this forward group of the prospect pool and it feels like again size may

03:06be a bit of a thing but there is absolutely like high level high level high level talent in this

03:14kid and so when you have those potentials where you have one trait that will just work you know like

03:19there are there are guys who have just made it in the nhl based on they can skate really really well

03:25and they just kind of figure out where they go after that but the pressure they can put on the defense

03:29gets them there caught potter like the the skating will be nhl level it is right now he like that that

03:37trait fits in the national hockey league tomorrow so that works for them and now if the other stuff

03:43where there is very high level potential if any of those other things hit now you have a real player

03:49on your hands and so to talk six point flames prospect pool is good just missing high-end talent

03:54like we've been missing for the past decade most of the prospects top out at second liner top four

03:59defense uh besides correct that is fair um i think brustavich has a little bit more of um an upside

04:06with that as well but i think potter and i'm not saying like forget forget the tank now don't worry

04:12about mckenna you got cullen potter i am not saying that but of all the players now in the prospect pool

04:18for the flames that have a chance to break into that superstar level that kind of difference making

04:25level it feels like he moves up toward the top of the list in at least having the potential to do

04:32that i'm not saying he is going to but it just feels like within his range of outcomes is that

04:36sort of a thing and he while the other ones do feel like there is a bit of a ceiling on him i don't

04:41know what the ceiling is on this kid but there's a lot to be excited about i think with him a lot is

04:47changing not just my facial hair on couch potato diary uh make sure you stay up to date on everything

04:52happening with the pod with the youtube videos with the new pod living room lariat uh on social

04:57media i am at primetime klein on twitter instagram tick tock uh threads blue sky all of them uh so

05:04follow me at primetime klein everywhere the rest of the draft everyone seems to be really high on um

05:11from kyle cushman who we had on on the radio um on friday and just absolutely awesome i want to get

05:15him on the podcast here as quickly as i can but uh from cushman to kind of break down the rest of it

05:20um stock sellius is a big center who scored a lot in the swedish junior league phillips is one of the

05:26biggest players in the draft wittenbach won the goudreau award as the usa chale player who best

05:32embodies the legacy of johnny and matthew goudreau this is a well-rounded class and it feels like this

05:37is the second year in a row that we are saying this and so it is again the point we bring up with the

05:43flames is that if and let's just say when this organization gets that high level player that

05:52they have been missing for a long time now when that happens they are ready to go this will not

05:59be the chicago blackhawks like you look at now the organizational depth that they have with two

06:04pretty solid drafts that all of a sudden the depth of the prospect pool feels strong and there are some

06:11very good like foundation pieces but in a different way than in san jose where we talked about okay

06:17that like championship foundation could be set with that this is more like building it like the house

06:22where it's like okay this is what you're gonna set it on now we put the mansion on top if you were

06:25to get a gavin mckenna or something like that like i think like if this team gets gavin mckenna next

06:30year they're a playoff team the year after like i just i feel like they have set everything up where

06:34you have players at the nhl level like azari a coronado um and and those sorts of guys i think frost

06:41falls into that as well with the high level that you have potentially on the back end with um perek

06:46and bruce davidge like we talked about and then the sort of depth pieces that you can win with with

06:51reshnies um i think strong grin has potential to be that sort of thing like it just it feels like now

06:56the organization has been set up in a way that if you want to build on this it's going to be pretty

07:02easy to be able to do that and at some point here very very quickly there's going to be a lot of

07:07upward pressure on guys who we viewed as high level prospects anyway and so i think that maybe

07:13a few of them don't pan out the way you want that is how prospects work but they are now in a spot and

07:19i'm not saying they should do this now but they are now in a spot where they can move three of these

07:23pieces and go out and make a big time splash and get a bigger type of a player to build around it like

07:29they have built such a great system and it is two years in a row where you come out of this feeling

07:33like this team when it comes to the draft really does have both hands on the steering wheel in a

07:39way that we haven't felt about them for a really long time so once again the calgary flames come

07:44away from a draft feeling like they are one of the winners of the weekend

07:48so

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