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Welcome everyone to game over Calgary following a six three win for the Calgary Flames over the Nashville Predators. My name is Peter Klein. Thank you all so much for tuning in. If you're watching us live, love you. If you're watching a little bit later on or if you're listening in playback on podcast afterwards, love you as well.

A lot to cover on this one today. Obviously going to talk about the game as Calgary, I thought had a pretty complete performance. We'll talk about what I saw and what it means going forward for this team as there's already discussions about that going on. We will talk about the hit on Dennis Gilbert and all of that, but then I do want to talk about some of the news of the day as Oliver Schillington is back with Calgary, the Wranglers at least. So we will discuss that and the newest all star for the Calgary Flames, which caught me off guard a little bit, I'll admit.

But we'll get into all of that as this show rolls along. If you have any questions that are off topic from what we are discussing today or at the particular time, you can send them my way in the chat and we will get to them in the presser once the show is done. So I think that's all of it. My name is Peter. I'm really bad at introducing myself on these, so hopefully I did before.

If not, there you go. So the Flames win this game six to three, and I wasn't going to talk about it a lot, but I'm seeing it a bunch on social media, seeing it a little bit in the chat as well. I think we have to start with the unfortunate part of this game, and that is Dennis Gilbert, in a scary looking collision, goes down to the ice late in the game. It's already six three Calgary. At that point, Thomas Emo comes in.

There is a debate as to the slew footedness of this hit. If it wasn't a slew foot, it was slew foot adjacent. And I think it's tough to read intent, but it did kind of seem as if he was going for a slew foot and then just went in too quick and ended up hitting him. Either way, Gilbert goes up in the air and then down very scarily, crashing basically headfirst onto the ice. And he wasn't moving for a period of time that is far too uncomfortable.

And you could see after he got up, he was checking his legs, checking his arms, everything was fine. They were squeezing the hand to make sure that his muscles were working fine. I'm assuming what that is. I've been hit on the head a few times before and they make me do that every time. I'm assuming that's what it is, but I've never asked why they did that.

But it was a really scary moment and the Flames have had relatively good injury luck so far this year. But obviously the first thought goes to Dennis Gilbert and again, hopefully he is all right. That looked really scary. I would imagine Tomasino gets some kind of a conversation from player safety. This is where you do kind of just like spin the wheel and make a deal and see what ends up happening with player safety and you end up seeing what this actually is going to be.

It is so unpredictable. Conrad saying in the chat, if Rasmus's charge is five, then this one needs to be four. Sure. Yeah. Quite frankly, I had more of a problem with the neon neon Rosica earlier in the game, like this one, because he wasn't like, he's going in quick and he could make the argument that their legs just get tangled.

It's definitely slew footish and it's a dirty play. But I had much more of a problem with a neon neon rosica that left him in quite a bit of discomfort that came, I believe, in the first period. So overall, not a great night for Tomasino as he kind of seemed like the dude that we didn't really. Or he kind of seemed like a dude that was just out there to be a dick tonight and that's unfortunate. But yeah, hopefully Gilbert ends up being all right.

It kind of does put a downer on what was, I think, a very strong performance from the Calgary Flames and an interesting chat here from, again, I'm going to full name it every time. Drums, games and the Calgary Flames. I don't know what to think anymore. I feel like we are getting too lucky with these wins. I don't think so.

This was a game I don't think luck played into this game at all tonight, aside from the very obvious. Like, this is a sport that's played on ice and sometimes the puck bounces your way, but this was a game that the flames controlled like they were, I think so. Clearly the better team tonight that they really deserved this win. And honestly, six three, I think is a bit flattering to Nashville. Obviously, they pour it on in the third period.

They're down by a bunch. That's what's going to happen. That's why score effects exist. Right? But no, I thought this was not a lucky game from a Calgary standpoint at all.

And you go back to the Minnesota game that I was so frustrated about. That was a first half of the game where Calgary again controlled it. Didn't like how they responded to adversity, but they controlled the first half of that game and then held on and picked up a win. This is a team that's playing pretty well right now. They are getting.

I guess the one way you could say they're getting lucky is that the level of competition is not overly fierce, but just did that right. Like they just had to deal with the overly fierce competition going into the Christmas break and they handled it to mixed results, but they handled it all right and now they are within striking distance of a playoff spot. So no, the conversation about this team and what direction they should go I think sometimes masks that this is an all right hockey team like again. Because they beat up on Nashville tonight does not equal them going to the Stanley cup or anything like that. But this is a team that is a fringe playoff team.

And so they played pretty well and they played like that over these last couple of games. I have liked how they have played. I like the speed that they played with. I like defensively most of how well they played on the defensive side of things. Like I think there's a lot of positives you can take away from this Calgary side.

So quite frankly, I don't think Lux playing into this. I think that this is a team that is kind of in the murky middle that can play better than teams in the murky middle on any given Thursday night. That's just kind of where I come down on it. But no, I thought this was a really good performance from Calgary through 40 minutes and then the third period was what it was. I don't think there's a whole lot you can take from that third period, but I do think that for 40 minutes Calgary was the far superior hockey team.

I loved the speed that they played at this game with and how aggressive they were in attacking. It was just get the puck and go. It was okay, well, let's slowly work our way up the ice. The one time it did kind of come back to bite him a little bit when it didn't happen, Gilbert had a bit of trouble getting out of his own end and led to a shot from Forsburg. But no, I loved how aggressive this team was playing tonight and going right after a Nashville Predators team that you don't often see a lot of teams like you can almost psych yourself out playing Nashville because you can understand that they are going to come at you defensively and so we're going to have to be ready for a grinded out game.

And the flames are like, I don't know, let's see if we can skate on them for a little bit. And they did, and they did it really, really effectively. And then when they got into the offensive zone, their puck retention was again very strong and they created a number of opportunities and then they work really hard. Draw power play. That leads to a power play chance where it looked like they scored twice.

I would have bet a not insignificant amount of money that that first Lindhome shot was in. And then they showed the replay and it wasn't. But they scramble for it and then Zari ends up getting the shot that goes through. I don't know if they credited Lindholm with it. It looked like maybe he got a piece of it.

But either way, the puck went off of Zari stick and into the net and Calgary took the lead and then Coleman gets one immediately after. It is mass chaos all over the ice in like that four minute stretch where Calgary takes a three one lead. But I think that there was a long winded way of saying there is a lot of things that you can feel good about from a Calgary flame standpoint for this game tonight. And I think, again, speed and aggression is certainly up there when you're looking at players to kind of single out in this game. He obviously got a boost and we'll talk about it in a little bit.

But I thought Elias Lindholm, this was one of the better games he's played this season. I really enjoyed what Lindholm did tonight. Again aggressive in taking the puck to the net and then setting up an opportunity for Sharon Govich that led to another opportunity. I think it was Huberto got stopped in the rebound. They had two really good chances, but that this is the guy that Flames fans wanted to see.

And this is the third game in a row that that line looked good. Huberto had another really good chance. He had a couple really good chances tonight set up by Lindholm when we thought it would be the other way around, but I thought that group looked good tonight. Backlund had some chances. I thought he, Manjapani and Coleman played well tonight.

And then Zari and Pospusil have been a little bit quiet lately, but Kadri has been quite good. So I think that this is a game that you come away with, actually, a lot of positives. And you know what? We've been on them for a bit. I thought Dube played well tonight.

As just, I think that you look at this from a flame standpoint and I know, like, long term, we want the tank and this team isn't built for sustained long term success, but they're playing some pretty good hockey right now and I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing to necessarily acknowledge. A couple of things of note that I didn't love from this game. One, Dan Vladar seemed the opposite of sharp. Just that first goal where, okay, he gets a stop, but it doesn't feel like a confident stop and leads to a rebound that leads to a felt. You didn't feel calm when the puck was on him all night.

And that blocker play in the third period that almost let Nashville back into it. Those are just plays you cannot have from your backup goalie. You need him to just be reliable and sound. If you get beat, you get beat, but don't beat yourself. And it did not seem like from the word go, this was a goalie who was ready to go.

I thought he struggled mightily in this game. And for a guy who's going to get at least one more game in the next couple, that's not necessarily something you love to see. Excuse me right now, one other thing, and it's just a little thing that power play at the end of the game that annoyed me a little bit. And I'm not saying like run up the score on Nashville or anything like that, but their dude just knocked your guy on his brain, make him pay for know. And they did a scrum and they did a whole little thing and that's whatever, but show them on that power play.

And I thought again, they're up three. There's five and a half minutes left and the guy took a five minute penalty. So it's a great opportunity to just kind of dick around and kill some clock out. But a, this power play is not going so hot that you can afford it to just pass up on live practice and b, that was always one of the things like you go back to the sadine twins and oh, well, they don't fight back. Well, taking a penalty against us is punishment enough and they would punish you and they'd score, make them pay for it.

Go out there and actually put the pressure on them and run up that score a little bit and just remind them like, hey, don't be doing that to our guys. But I do think the other part of it is like, this power play hasn't been going as perfect lately. They do get one power play goal in this game, but get some more rounds in there, get some more practice time, basically, instead of just kind of slowly working it up the ice and, oh, they sent it back down. All right, let's go back. And they did kind of get us set up at some point, but I thought they could have taken more advantage of the situation that was presented to them.

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They played really well and Nashville didn't. Nashville's a one line hockey team that I think that the results are starting to show. And when you look at teams who could fall out of a playoff spot, it'd be them. Unless is, you know, otherworldly again, which he could be, although certainly wasn't on this night. But I do think there's a lot to be excited about.

And Conrad saying in the chat, shilly, my beloved, because Oliver Shillington is back practicing with the organization. He is down on a conditioning stint with the Wranglers, which makes all the sense in the world. Haven't played in a year and a half. I would want to get up to speed, quite frankly.

But it's great to see and it's great that he comes out with a statement saying that his mental health is back at a point where he feels comfortable that he can come back. Now, I'm sure he has worked in that this was the most attention paid to a wrangler's practice this season and there's going to be a lot of microphones in his face for long stretches now, and hopefully he is all right with that. But I haven't really given much thought to what it looks like hockey wise, just because you don't know what this guy is going through and if that is a viable option. But now that he's back and understanding that this blue line is going to look quite a bit different over the next little while, but this makes you feel a little bit better about what could be coming in in this next wave on the Calgary blue line, and it makes things kind of lengthen a little bit more. If it were me personally, when he comes back again, I guess if he comes back right, it could still be overwhelming or whatever it is when he comes back to the lineup, whatever was bothering him could start bothering him again.

But seeing him back, a you just feel great for him, but b you start to piece it together. I personally would put him with Tanev that they've already split up the defenseman a little bit with Hannefin and Tanev on separate pairings. I would love to see Shillington with like because we've talked about before, everyone plays their best with Tanev, including Shillington, who has got some of his best hockey when playing with Chris Tanev. And so I think that's how you utilize that. Not to speculate.

I would guess Gilbert misses a couple here. Just guessing, but I think you can kind of cycle through like Osterly and Gilbert in that 6th spot going forward. If you want Solovia, by all means go for it. That one might be just a once someone gets traded, sort of a move someone else, I guess, gets traded because that was kind of the initial thought when Zidorov went down was that Soloviov was going to get an extended run. But Gilbert has been solid as a five six guy and Osterly takes a few too many chances for me.

I think he kind of took it literally when people said that he could be the Zidorov replacement. He's like oh yeah, bet, let's go. So he's very aggressive offensively, but he made a pinch that led to the goal the other night against Minnesota that allowed them to get right back into that hockey game. So he would be the OD man out to me. But this would be a huge and it would have to be a huge boost to the locker room to just have Oliver Schillington back and hanging around with the guys again and to see that he has worked through whatever he is going through is really inspiring and just so happy for the guy.

And as Conroy points out, he does only have eleven days or 14 days. Sorry for this conditioning stint. He's always seemed like he's in pretty good shape. I would imagine 14 days is enough to condition him. Wouldn't be enough for me, 14 years wouldn't.

But 14 days seems like enough to get that guy back into shape. The other news of the day is Elias Lindholm has been named the all star for the Calgary Flames. Now we can vote on who else would be going. This one caught me off guard and I think there's been a lot of frustration around Lindholm. So maybe we're too far into the forest to see the trees on this one.

But that wouldn't have been my first choice, probably wouldn't have been my second choice. If I'm being perfectly frank with all of y'all, I don't know why I'm going with Frank tonight. I feel like Kadri has been much better than Lindhome basically all season, and it's so clear that Markstrom's been their best player all season, so now getting goalies makes it like that. There's different restrictions for goalies and whatnot, but I really felt like Kadri going back to Toronto now. He might get in anyway, although I don't know if he's played well enough to be voted in.

He kind of felt like. Kind of feels like this playing team has only been playing well enough to get one all star this year, right? So I was a little bit surprised that it was Lindholm. I thought cadre had played significantly better for most of the season and kind of deserved this all star nod. Lindhome has put up some numbers, but has been relatively quiet for long stretches and has actually been relatively frustrating at times.

So that one really caught me off guard today. But now it helps out Craig Conroy, right? Because now instead of going into, well, we can give you Elias Lindholm. Well, we can give you noted All Star Elias Lindholm just bumps that trade value up a little bit more. Right?

Yeah, it's all about 2024. It's all about branding and marketing and all of that stuff. You just got to know how to sell it and you get the tag of All Star on there and we were able to lock that one in. So the trade value obviously sky high for Elias Lindholm now as he makes his appearance in the All Star game. But again, coincidence?

Maybe. I thought he played really well tonight, so maybe he had a bit of a jump getting that recognition. I believe it is his first All Star game, and so it's correcting that because he has played well enough in Calgary that he should have gone to an all Star game by now. So if I am remembering correctly, and this is his first All Star game, then I guess it just kind of rights or wrong, but it doesn't feel like this year has been an all star year for Elias Lindholm. It is now time for the press conference.

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A lot of talk. Like I said about the tomasino hits, one on Gilbert, one on Ruzicka. Matt C. Chiming in. I was getting the Nashville broadcast missed out and they were absolutely shocked that the slew foot penalty was called.

Again, it wasn't your standard definition, slew foot. The legs kind of crashed into each other more than anything, but it was slew foot adjacent, that's for sure, and led to a pretty terrifying result. Now, if Gilbert pops back up, I don't know if it ends up being a five minute penalty just because how things are called, right? That's not to discount the effects of that or the potential dangers of the move that Tomasino did, but we know in the NHL if Gilbert just pops up and sucks him one in the mouth, then maybe it's two. Maybe it's just a whatever.

They probably just go four on four and those guys just go off that way. So it's frustrating how the league is. I would imagine there's some form of discipline coming for this one and again, especially because of the result with Gilbert just laying there. But I don't know if you were to show someone like, oh, can you give me the definition of a slew foot? That's probably not the video you would show, but it's close enough that it was dangerous anyway.

And again, his second dangerous play of the game after a knee on knee on Rosica early in the night. Is it possible we can still vote Coleman and Zari to be at the All Star game? I believe so. I haven't tried to vote for the all star game in years, actually. But I do think if you go on there, you can just vote for whoever, right?

That's how John Scott got. So. Yeah, like, you can absolutely just throw Coleman and Zari in. That'd be fun. I think Cadri and Markstrom would be my votes for that for sure.

And yeah, maybe throw in Hannah Finn and Tanev. Just again, bump that trade value up a little bit more, get that all star tag on some of these players. Press conference question Shilly that is all. That's all that needs to be said. Just I was so happy to go to X or Twitter and see that this was something that was happening and see the statement from Oliver Shillington.

It brought so much joy to see that. I was so happy when I saw that he was coming back. Press conference question for real? From Conrad game over Calgary Meetup at Shilly's first Wranglers game I can commit to nothing. I don't know.

I think it would be fun. I would love to do a game over meetup at some point with a bunch of y'all. Anyway, maybe Shilly's first Wranglers game would be the time to do it. But we definitely do need to do something. And we do need to do something to mark the occasion of Oliver Shillington returning to the Calgary Wranglers lineup and then eventually the Calgary Flames lineup.

I don't think it was a full on slew foot back to what else would we be talking about? But it definitely needs to be looked at. Yeah, I do think that it should be looked at, and I do think it should get some form of a suspension. I don't know if it's like ten or anything like that, but it is a very dangerous play. Regardless of if you want to absolutely buy the book, call it a slew foot or not.

Conrad with the off topic question, thoughts on Nick Nemeth or Dolph Ziggler and Ryan Nemeth in New Japan pro wrestling? Do they take over Bullet club and make it relevant again? It seemed like. I mean, I think it's interesting that Finley is rivaling, wow. Starting a rivalry with the Nemeth boys.

I don't know if they take over bullet club. Finley taking over bullet Club is still, I was going to say it's still pretty new. I guess it's basically been a year. Hey, like the whole hikileo j white stuff was kind of early in the year last year, but it still feels relatively new to be bumping him out of there. I do think there has been a returned focus on getting bullet club a little bit more relevant, but that's probably enough wrestling for now.

But yeah, I don't think Delph joins Bullet club. I think he kind of goes off and does his own thing. But yeah, the world of professional wrestling is always fun. Much like the world of hockey. Like that the Flames again.

Is this going to be the season that the giant tank that people want? Don't think so. Looking at things right now and as updated as the NHL website is, and they do have it updated for the Flames, Calgary now sits 1716 and five. They are one point out of a playoff spot, trailing the Arizona Coyotes, who are getting their heads kicked in tonight by the New York Islanders. So Calgary will remain a point out of a playoff spot again.

Arizona does have by the end of the night, they'll have three games in hand on the no, sorry, they'll have one game in hand. Went the other way with the math. It's not how it works. They'll have one game in hand on Calgary. The Flames do still have to jump over St.

Louis and Edmonton as well, but now they are all so just four points back of Nashville, who holds the first wild card spot in the Western Conference. And even if Lindholm and Tanev and Hannifin get moved on from this team, this is still going to be a team, I think, that is battling for a playoff spot all year long. I was thinking about it today. You move with Shillington coming back. Presumably you move Tanev and you can basically replace it with Shillington.

I get it's not apples to apples, a to b comparison, but in the lineup you put Shillington in there and in Hannifin's place it's Soloviov or maybe Poirier. I keep talking about him on these shows and then not looking at injury updates, so he should be back soon ish and he felt like he was ready to contribute at the NHL level. So by the time there is a move for the second defenseman or I guess third overall of the trade season to move on, maybe he is ready. If not, it's Soloviov. And then you roll out there with just off the top of my head Uyghur, Anderson, Shillington, Gilbert, I guess, and Osterly Soloviov.

So it's not amazing and it's not great, but I do think with Martrim playing the way he is, they'll probably still stay competitive. And then at the forward spot you're losing. Lindholm probably going to gain a pelchier at some point, and I would assume a coronado can step in as well. And then if you want to trade like we have kind of been calling for a Dylan dube getting moved potentially, or if you wanted to kind of maximize the value you have on an AJ greer and bring up like a klapka or someone like that. There are replacements that can come in and maybe not do 100% of what those guys did, but can at least kind of keep things moving a little bit for this team and give us a good evaluation for this group.

Long term, it is better if this one kind of goes off the rails a little bit, but I do think it's going to be a valuable experience for some of these young kids to be in an environment where at least for them, every game matters. So I'm excited to see what the rest of this flame season has to offer, and I didn't think I'd be saying that for long stretches of this year. Matt C with a question what sort of ceiling do you think Sharon Govich has? Can he potentially have a 40 goal year with us in the near future? Honestly, I think so.

I don't know if he is a consistent 40 goal score necessarily.

It's like Manjapani right now. He's not a 30 goal scorer, he's a guy who scored 30, right? It's a different way of saying it, but they mean different things, if that makes sense. I do think that Sharon Gobich could be a guy who scores 40, but not necessarily a 40 goal score. He looks like with that shot and the offensive instincts that he has, he could roll out of bed and get 25.

And so I think given more opportunities with this Flames team because it feels like he's going to be a top line guy for a while. I think you can probably rely on him for anywhere between 25 and 45 goals a season just based on random variants and things like that. That can happen over 82 games and again in a sport where you're playing with a piece of rubber on ice. So, no, I think the world of this kid offensively, and I think that he can really step up and be one of the top scorers for Calgary. They just need more of him right now.

Curtis Joseph. I'm assuming that Curtis Joseph the Leafs will take Hannifin off of your hands. Yeah, I'm sure they would. All it would take is like Lilliagrin plus, right? And that's the other thing too.

Like I mentioned, all these players moving out, I'm assuming there's going to be kids coming back in, right? Like not just the Flames ones, but something like a Sharon Govich. Now that has been best case scenario, but I have long said you could see a Lilligrin or someone like that coming from Toronto or like a Hoaglander coming from Vancouver or whatever. Most of the hockey media I consume just based on game over is from canadian market, so that's where my head goes. But you can find those guys all over the place.

But yeah, the Leafs are certainly a team that I think will be in on Hannifin and Tanf and probably whatever goalie that the Flames want to move, whether it be Markstrom or Vladar or both, the Leafs will probably be in on all of those. And as Flames fans, we are well aware that Bradtree living is just in on everything when it comes to trade talks. So yes, Noah Hanifin will certainly be on the Leaf radar, I would assume, going forward. All right, I think that is where we are going to call this one one more time. If you haven't already like this video, subscribe to the channel.

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