{"id":165597,"date":"2025-09-24T07:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165597\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:09:15","slug":"yegor-sharangovich-amongst-five-flames-standouts-vs-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/165597\/","title":{"rendered":"Yegor Sharangovich amongst five Flames standouts vs. Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

CALGARY \u2014 Last year there was more talk about Yegor Sharangovich<\/a>\u2019s work with Lego than there was about his game.<\/p>\n

One year after piecing together a team-high 31 goals, the Belarussian winger dropped to just 17, prompting plenty of concern his five-year, $28.7 million contract extension might not age well.<\/p>\n

Invisible on many nights and unable to build enough chemistry to get his deadly shot off with enough regularity, Sharangovich is tasked with trying to be more relevant more often.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday he found his scoring touch with a nifty redirect to open the scoring in a 4-1 pre-season win for the Calgary Flames<\/a> over Seattle at the Dome.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a good sign for a player who said he spent increased time on the ice this summer with an eye on getting off to a stronger start \u2014 something he was unable to do last year after suffering an injury in the final pre-season game.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cWhen you\u2019re healthy going into the season it\u2019s so nice,\u201d said the soft-spoken 27-year-old, who played alongside Rory Kerins<\/a> and Matvei Gridin Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cReally, just work hard in practice and do the same in the game. When you\u2019re playing hard you always have chances to score and do something good for the team. You just need to play hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, he is aware intensity is an issue, as he needs to work on his board battles and engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s much the same as we had last year for him, we feel like when Sharon is hard on pucks, when he\u2019s committed to getting into the battle a little bit more often his game comes along nicely,\u201d said coach Ryan Huska.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s probably one of the bigger messages.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said last year I probably had a hand in his slow start. He had an injury to start with, not\u00a0ideal, your last game of the exhibition season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI bounced him from the middle of the ice to the wing and I didn\u2019t really give him an opportunity to get himself going.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hope and the belief for me this year is he\u2019s going to be much more committed, and I think looking for a fresh start as well. He wasn\u2019t happy with the way last year went, so I think we\u2019re going to get a better Sharon this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

A look at four other players who stood out Tuesday:<\/p>\n

Kerins scored 33 goals to lead the Wranglers last season, was an AHL all star, had a point per game and snagged four assists in his five-game NHL debut.<\/p>\n

Yet, few mention the 23-year-old when talk surfaces of who might be the first call-up if the Flames need a centre.<\/p>\n

He made a solid case for himself Tuesday with a nifty finish in tight that saw him roof an early second period go-ahead goal past Philipp Grubauer while on the power play.<\/p>\n

It was part of a two-point night in which he also did some nice work in the corner to help set up Sharangovich\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like in a lot of ways it\u2019s kind of like my first pre-season, so this is very exciting for me and something I would have killed for the last three years,\u201d said Kerins, who wasn\u2019t given a single pre-season assignment last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cProjections are projections and I\u2019m just going there and doing my best and playing the game I love and having a lot of fun with it.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wolf only faced 13 shots in his two-period pre-season debut, but showed enough to inspire confidence he\u2019s ready to shoulder an even bigger load this year as the face of the franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Wolf was beaten just once before giving way to Owen Say to start the third period, leading 2-1.<\/p>\n

\u201cRocky the first 15 minutes to kind of kick off the rust, just kind of antsy out there, but settled in in the second,\u201d said Wolf.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the opportunity of pre-season, you want to get touches and feel the way I want to feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parekh didn\u2019t stick out as much as he did against Edmonton Sunday, which is a good thing.<\/p>\n

Give his partner Kevin Bahl<\/a> plenty of credit for that, adding a stability to the pairing that Parekh enjoyed the night of his NHL debut.<\/p>\n

Parekh wasn\u2019t hard enough on Mitchell Stephens when he scored Seattle\u2019s lone goal, but the 19-year-old, who will be a story every night he plays, finished the night plus-1.<\/p>\n

Running the top power-play unit with confidence, Parekh barely missed connecting early in the third on a nice pass while driving the net.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought he did a good job, not just with the power play but we were fairly liberal with who he was on the ice against for the majority of the night and I thought they did a really good job together,\u201d said Huska, who gave Parekh almost 22 minutes of ice time.<\/p>\n

\u201cBahler is very steady\u2026and I think it allowed Zayne to play his game a little more than from what we saw against Edmonton.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Zary was noticeable throughout the evening, driving play, creating chances, picking up an\u00a0assist and three shots on goal on a line with Justin Kirkland<\/a> and Adam Klapka.<\/p>\n

Zary was the recipient of four significant hits, including one blast by Mason Marchment that had him skating back to the bench at the end of the shift shaking his head.<\/p>\n

This is a big year for Zary, who signed a bridge deal after what was essentially a lost season last season when he suffered two separate leg injuries.<\/p>\n

Huberdeau \u2013 Frost – Coronato
Zary – Kirkland \u2013 Klapka
Sharangovich – Kerins\u00a0\u00a0– Gridin
Stromgren – Morton \u2013 Honzek<\/p>\n

Bahl \u2013 Parekh
Kuznetsov \u2013 Brzustewicz
Solovyov – Pachal\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CALGARY \u2014 Last year there was more talk about Yegor Sharangovich\u2019s work with Lego than there was about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-165597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}