Bad news for the Calgary Wranglers ... It doesn’t look like Sam Honzek, who scored his first NHL goal Tuesday, will be back in the minors

Asked if he is feeling more comfortable in this second stint as an NHLer, Sam Honzek pauses a beat.

The Calgary Flames forward callup doesn’t want to fib, but he’s not necessarily sure he wants to admit the answer — more to himself than to anyone else.

“I would say yeah,” Honzek said. “But I try to put myself in uncomfortable positions, you know? Because sometimes I can feel that when I’m uncomfortable, I play better. So I have in mind and have that thought in my head that nothing is guaranteed here and I still have to earn everything.

“It’s all on me to show them that I belong here and I deserve a spot.”

He’s doing a heck of a job of that.

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