Boomer and Rhett get into a conversation about Connor Zary, who’s now buried on the fourth line playing center — and the guys can’t figure out what the Flames are doing. Zary has shown real promise at the NHL level, but injuries and inconsistent usage have stalled his progress. What’s the plan here? Why isn’t he getting a real opportunity? The boys break down the situation and what Calgary should be doing with one of their most talented young players.
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23 Comments
WTF have they done to him?
Flames couldn't develop a wet hot fart after a night of dome beers chased with last night's taco bell and a Tim's triple triple for breakfast…
He's much less explosive this year. The knee injury did damage.
True Farabee n Frost has'nt done jack.
Zary is twice the player Coronato is. Gets injured twice in brutal fashion then proceeds to watch a player come up and take the contract and lineup position that was essentially his. Before the injury Zary was driving plays and creating chances with speed and creativity the team hasn't seen since the mass exodus of Calgary players. Can't imagine he is in a great mental space or excited to play hockey at the moment which is truly sad.
Do we want Zary as a winger or as a center? Is his development such as you could throw him in as a 1c or a 2c? If not how do you get him there? Keep playing him on the wing…. How would that make him a better center? Give him time as 4c taking faceoffs and playing center against the bottom six of the other teams? Maybe this will help get his footing as a center so you can move him up the lineup…. As a center.
The flames have a lot of players who on paper could work and have success. But as a team they do not or are not able to mesh it’s probably a coaching issue as well but also I don’t believe huska is doing a bad job and would be okay with huska being on the team during the rebuild. Huska seems to get it and is a strong team leader. Players like zary and Sharangovic and corronato and klapka and parekh can make it through the line up but sprinkle in some young exciting talent these players will thrive again. Until then they’re going to be just mid/ bad
Huska and the Flames coaching staff don't seem to be concerned with developing any young players at all. If you're not the complete picture at 18, you're getting sat or stapled to the 4th line with the plugs. Meanwhile the vets have guaranteed roster spots no matter how badly they play.
Zary has been playing awful but they need to play him in the top 9. They did the same thing with Bennett and how'd that work out ?
Flames are good at giving up on the kids.tyrn stick on the bench or 3/4th lines. No chance future here. But go to another team and get some quality minutes and viola ..a star.
I think the truth is a little or both. They haven't always used him properly, but he's been wildly inconsistent as well. Really like the player however on paper, and hope he can turn it around.
His best play came with Kadri and Pospisil. Nobody mentions Pospisil, but that guy gets everyone going. I wouldn’t mind seeing Klapka getting more ice with better players, too. Does anyone know when Pospisil is coming back?
And yet you are ragging on Sharangovich. Why is that? Is it because he’s Russian and Zary is American?
Doing the same thing the Kraken are doing with Shane Wright. Old school NHLers ruining these young guys for mediocre vets
huska and staff micro manage zary is another sam bennet along with a few others you should have to be twenty before you enter the nhl
The second injury was a rough play that literally almost every NHL player would be injured. I feel the criticism isn’t totally fair
I think it would be important for the young players to be playing with the same linemates for an extended period of time. At least that way, they can get familiar with those linemates WHILE getting up to NHL game speed. Shuffling lines constantly means that they need to think about their various linemates' tendencies WHILE playing against opponents that are showing them something different all the time. Just lock in the linemate variable for a while so they have a few less things changing.
They could easily trade him to the Habs now imo unless he has injury issues.
They're doing the same thing they did with Bennett. And that's not great news
as an NHL player – don't beaver slap your stick in the neutral zone wanting the D to pass U the puck up- then act pissed off that the D ignores U and dumps it in – what kinda show 4-the fans is that ?
Nobody’s scoring so, meh
Zary looked very good against WPG, but give him a finisher to play with instead of Lomberg. Klapka almost scored off a Zary pass, but hit the crossbar
His attitude sucks thats the problem.
I got Coranato in my fantasy league and am already starting to regret it. I'm glad the guy I tried to get Zary from in a trade said no now lol. The kid looked really good before. So weird to see him struggling this bad.