Tyler Parsons was supposed to spend this summer in Calgary. But he didn’t.



He calls it one of the best decisions of his life.



The original plan was for the Flames’ top goaltending prospect to stick around town and do the group training at WinSport with other players in the organization. That plan was so set in stone that in April, he and his fiancée, Darien Brooke, signed a seven-month lease on a home in Airdrie, a town just north of Calgary’s city limits.



Then plans changed, rather suddenly, after a trip home to Michigan in late May.



“I went back to my gym that I always train at and they had some new styles of training with functional range of motion stuff that they incorporated right into my strength and conditioning program,” said Parsons. “I did three or four days of that, before I headed back to Airdrie, and I just got so much benefit out of it. I said if I want to take that next step, really make the...