{"id":95269,"date":"2025-08-25T07:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95269\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:00:11","slug":"pacific-notes-wolf-zary-kraken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/95269\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Wolf, Zary, Kraken"},"content":{"rendered":"

While last season was a successful one for Calgary Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf<\/a>, he is setting a high bar for his encore season and has playoff aspirations heading into the new campaign, per NHL.com\u2019s Derek Van Diest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old netminder, who is currently holding extension<\/a> discussions with the team, posted a 29-16-8 record to go along with a .910 save percentage last season. Those numbers earned him a second-place finish in Rookie of the Year voting, as well as a respectable seventh place in Veniza voting. Interestingly, he also finished second among all NHL goaltenders in Hart Memorial votes, behind only winner Connor Hellebuyck<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Despite being undersized, Wolf flashed the potential that the Flames were hoping for. However, he isn\u2019t satisfied with simply repeating last year\u2019s performance \u2014 either individually or as a team.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour objective is to come to the next season, have a good summer and be better. I think the term I like to use right now is, \u2018not to be complacent.\u2019 I\u2019m still super young, trying to learn my way around the League,\u201d he said. \u201cI have one full year under my belt, but that means absolutely nothing. I want to come in here with a chip on my shoulder. We have a lot to prove as a team.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere around the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n

Sticking with the Flames, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> is hearing the team and restricted free agent Connor Zary<\/a> continue to remain apart on an extension. Speaking on his 32 Thoughts podcast, Friedman said that while he believes the two sides will eventually reach a deal, both term and annual salary remain sticking points. \u201cI don\u2019t think this is a situation where the Flames don\u2019t like the player, or the player doesn\u2019t like the Flames,\u201d Friedman said. \u201cAnd the good news is the market is picking up.\u201d In 54 games last season, Zary posted 13 goals and 27 points.
\nThe Seattle Kraken are coming off a down season where many things didn\u2019t go according to plan, including special teams play. The Kraken finished 23rd in the league on the power play with an 18.9 percent success rate and 21st on the penalty kill at 77.2 percent. It\u2019s an issue general manager Jason Botterill is looking to shore up this season, per NHL.com\u2019s Kevin Woodley<\/a>. \u201cWe certainly have opportunity for growth in both those categories, and we have to show improvement to have success,\u201d said Botterill. To that end, forward Mason Marchment<\/a> was acquired via trade in June, partly to support Seattle\u2019s power play. On the PK, Botterill noted that younger players will be expected to step up, specifically mentioning Matty Beniers<\/a> and Ryker Evans<\/a> as key contributors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While last season was a successful one for Calgary Flames goaltender Dustin Wolf, he is setting a high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,762,48,27806,44788,448,768,82],"class_list":["post-95269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-calgary-flames","tag-canada","tag-connor-zary","tag-dustin-wolf","tag-nhl","tag-seattle-kraken","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95269","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=95269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}