Jonathan Huberdeau wasn’t required for a media scrum. Neither was Mikael Backlund nor Dustin Wolf.

The most requested player on the first day of Calgary Flames training camp was, instead, Zayne Parekh, a guy with all of 20 minutes of ice time on his NHL resume.

He’s the talk of the town. The guy with the brightest spotlight. The player who Flames fans are pinning their hopes on.

That’s a lot of pressure to put on the shoulders of a 19-year-old at his second NHL training camp.

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His head coach, though, has a simple message for the young blueliner.

“Just focus solely on making the team, that’s it,” said Flames head coach Ryan Huska. “I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think Zayne should feel any undue pressure about being the sav

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