{"id":486220,"date":"2026-02-19T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486220\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T22:03:07","slug":"prove-the-expectations-calgary-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/486220\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Prove The Expectations&#8217; | Calgary Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And make no mistake, Gridin\u2019s teammates took notice, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did it well, like, when I was, like, 11 years old, like, 12,\u201d Gridin said of his move. \u201cAnd yesterday (Morgan) Frost, he sent me how he scored (similarly with) Philly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said, like, \u2018You can thank me for teaching you everything\u2019 or something like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gridin has spent the first two post-break practices on Frost\u2019s wing, as he did for Calgary\u2019s five most recent contests leading into the Winter Games layoff.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they\u2019ve combined for seven points during that span. But regardless of who he\u2019s alongside, Gridin just wants to be in the lineup, beginning a week today when the Flames get back to game action in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow many games left, like, 25, 26?,\u201d he asked the attending media when queried on his rest-of-season goals. \u201cYeah, just play all 26 games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust play my best. Like, if I can put up points on board, that&#8217;s great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And make no mistake, Gridin\u2019s teammates took notice, too. \u201cI did it well, like, when I was, like,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-486220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-calgary","10":"tag-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486220","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=486220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}