Kevin Bahl
Calgary Flames defensemanWikipedia
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Search complete. 17 mentions across 10 episodes found for "Kevin Bahl".
Sep 11, 2026
Bobby GermanyGUEST
You got Oliver Moore, Ryan Greene, who played some good NHL minutes last year.
Bobby GermanyGUEST
And then on defense you got Vlasic, who's kinda like a Kevin Ball-
Dean MolbergHOST
He's huge, yeah
Bobby GermanyGUEST
... style player.
Peter KleinHOST
But we, [laughs] we, uh, we, we have a lot of shows to be able to fill all of that.
Peter KleinHOST
Um, uh, another one for me, just to, to stick on the blue line, and it's, uh, maybe not as glamorous or anything like that, but I, I'm excited for another year of Kevin Ball.
Peter KleinHOST
Um-
John EasthopeHOST
I like that
Joaquin GageHOST
Oh, yeah, he's great.
Hernan SalasHOST
I, I, and I was telling you guys in the break of Kevin Ball, to me, is a lot better than I, than what I...
Hernan SalasHOST
I didn't really know much about him, but I saw him play last year, and he, he's a big boy.
Hernan SalasHOST
He plays well.
Bobby GermanyGUEST
Yeah.
Ryan PinderHOST
If you've got him a Kevin Ball, you're not really trying to rein one of the horses in.
Ryan PinderHOST
Ball's happy to hold the fort, and you can let this guy move up the ice a little more.
Bobby GermanyGUEST
And I think that's the perfect pair.
John EasthopeHOST
It's pretty straightforward.
John EasthopeHOST
You've got Kevin Ball.
John EasthopeHOST
You've got Simon Nemec.
John EasthopeHOST
They've played together in the past.
Mark GriffithHOST
Kuznetsov, Brustevic, which was awesome last year, and then Hanley as the seventh defenseman.
Mark GriffithHOST
I'm thinking, yeah, that, all of that looks cool, but where is Kevin Ball? That's kinda what I'm thinking here.
Mark GriffithHOST
Does that mean Ball is traded? Does that mean, you know, something else? Uh, I'm, I'm a little bit confused on that one.
Mark GriffithHOST
I think it would be more interesting or more maybe accurate if, you know, Whitecloud was the guy out of there because of a trade.
John EasthopeHOST
But I got the ball mimic pairing as my top pairing, just obvious reasons.
John EasthopeHOST
Kevin Ball is your best shutdown guy.
John EasthopeHOST
a really good leader on that back end he's really coming into his own and you want to see what you get at anemic and they do have a history together uh this is where it gets a little bit interesting for me because i put uh i put a kid with a veteran for my other two pairs here i do have coots nets off with white cloud i think those two can form a nice pairing uh nets up really performed well last year and showing what he is at the nhl level what he can be for the flames here going down the road And Zach Whitecloud is everyone's favorite boy, and we know what he brings to the table.
John EasthopeHOST
That leaves me with Middleton with Parekh.
John EasthopeHOST
If Kuznetsov didn't need waivers, it'd be easy to put him in the American League for a couple of weeks and then call him up in case of injury and stuff like that.
John EasthopeHOST
But I think it's really important to get Nemec minutes, Perek minutes, Kuznetsov minutes, and Bristevich minutes.
John EasthopeHOST
And it's hard to do that at the NHL level when you have these awesome veterans in the white cloud and the Middleton and Kevin Ball kicking around here.
John EasthopeHOST
So I would put a little bit of emphasis on making sure Kuznetsov still gets his minutes as well.
Allan MitchellHOST
Can you name five, Flames?
Josh FenwickPANELIST
Matt Vaigreden, Matt Coronado, Dustin Wolfe, Devin Cooley, Zane Perrecht, Simone Nemech, Kevin Ball.
Josh FenwickPANELIST
Now I'm just running out of air.
Declan KruegerPANELIST
So two of those guys play the same position.
Allan MitchellHOST
I thought...
Allan MitchellHOST
I thought
Josh FenwickPANELIST
Ball was gone.
Josh FenwickPANELIST
I'm pretty sure Ball's still on the roster.
JordanHOST
Who would you pair him with? We asked this with our last guest.
JordanHOST
I mean, you got your options, I think, are just basically Ball, White Cloud, or you could go Ultimate Chaos and pair him with Perek.
JordanHOST
Which do you think would be the best route in terms of, you know, obviously developing players is always key, but what would be the best fit for them, do you think?
JackGUEST
You definitely want somebody who is going to take care of things behind him and That is, I mean, the Flames kind of have no lack right now of guys who fit that.
JackGUEST
Middleton or Ball probably will do the trick.
JackGUEST
I think kind of Ball's, you know, stick work and defensive ability, his kind of stay-at-home profile would probably fit pretty well.
JackGUEST
I'm kind of interested how the Flames are going to dole out the menace between Whitecloud, Nemech, and Perak, just because that seems to be kind of their three right-handed defensemen right now.
JackGUEST
um you know i would kind of like you know the flames clearly trust ball a lot they they clearly are willing to give them a ton of minutes if they just walk out opening day next season and with a ball and damage pairing as their top pairing i don't think that that would be anything to complain about because
Ryan PinderHOST
You have four guys that are cut above.
Ryan PinderHOST
You've got Kevin Ball as a left-shot defensive guy.
Ryan PinderHOST
You've got Zach Whitecloud as a right-shot defensive guy.
Ryan PinderHOST
And you've got two very offensively gifted young players with a lot of ceiling to see how much can they get to.