{"id":612480,"date":"2026-04-18T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612480\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T13:51:01","slug":"flames-looking-ahead-to-youthful-future-after-missing-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612480\/","title":{"rendered":"Flames looking ahead to youthful future after missing playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a disappointing season, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/calgary-flames\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"calgary-flames\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Calgary Flames<\/a> are optimistic about budding talent. <\/p>\n<p>On locker clean-out day, while having their last conversations media ahead of the summer break, many Flames players were looking ahead and focused on the excitement young players bring to the team<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s exciting when you have guys, especially younger guess with talent and skill, you don&#8217;t want to hold them back. You don&#8217;t want to put a leash on them, right?&#8221; Connor Zary said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You need guys to want to go out there and do their thing because at the end of the day, that&#8217;s what makes them such exciting and good players. So, it&#8217;s exciting to see when a guy like Zayne does something like that and you can really see like, this is what that guy has and this is what that guy can do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zayne Parekh danced around the Los Angeles Kings to score the game-winning goal in the last game of the season on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>Captain Mikael Backlund echoed Zary and talked about what the next few months could mean for the Flames&#8217; future. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting summer, a lot of young guys played some good hockey at times this year, and you get some promising players coming up and with an exciting draft and a lot of capital, a lot of good things can happen,&#8221; Backlund said.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames have not made playoffs in four years. Calgary finished the 2025-26 season with a 34-39-9 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite a disappointing season, the Calgary Flames are optimistic about budding talent. On locker clean-out day, while having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-612480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612480","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=612480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}