Olli Määttä

Initially, uh, Thursday night in Nashville, Jared Spurgeon is gonna play with, uh, Quinn Hughes at even strength.

Uh, it looks like Ole Maatta and Jonas Brodin will be on the second pair, and that Taiman Hunt and, and, um, Zach Bogosian will be on the third pair.

Hunt and Bogosian will basically split the PK time that, that Faber, uh, usually gets, and Spurgeon will take the number two power play, uh, point position, which obviously, um, this is a guy that's, uh, the only point that he does-- The only record in Wild history amongst defensemen that Spurgeon doesn't own outright, that he's tied with Ryan Suter in, is power play points.

Everything else, he is the number one record holder for defensemen in Wild history.

Where do you think they go from here?

Well, I mean, you just laid out how they're gonna go at least for game one, and, you know, Spurgeon and Hughes are gonna be fine.

It's-- You probably feel the bigger hit on the second pair with Brodin and Maatta as opposed to Brodin and Spurgeon.

And, you know, I think we'll see how this goes.

I, I think on the penalty kill it's very similar.

You know, I do think by adding, uh, uh, Olli Maatta, who's a very good penalty killer, he's done it at a high level his whole career.

Blake Coleman's another guy.

McCarrons another guy.

Uh, he'll make his Flames debut in the regular season when they open up in a couple of weeks, and he was brought over in July.

He was part of the trade that sent Blake Coleman and Olli Maatta to the Minnesota Wild.

That was kind of the last significant move the Flames made, uh, in early July.

And so that, that now brought back Jake.

Uh, they added Jake Middleton, old friend, uh, Simon Nemec, and Maxim, uh, Slukvinov.

Uh, they lost Blake Coleman, Ryan Lomberg, and Oli Maata, uh, as their kind of major moves this off-season.

This is a team, though, that is, I think, really embracing their rebuild this year.

And also, they're dealing ...

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Olli Maatta.

Blackhawk legend.

[laughs] Blackhawk legend Olli Maatta.

Yeah.

Uh, I think that's it, though.

Uh, major adds for them this off season, Simon Nemec, Jacob Middleton, and Maxim Siplakov.

Major subtractions, Blake Coleman, Oli Maata, uh, Rasmus Andersson, Mackenzie Weger, and Nazem Kadri were all traded before the deadline last year.

Yeah.

Um, so Calgary, storylines.