We've had a busy few days around these parts with the trades of Markus Granlund and Jiri Hudler. It all comes to a head today with one of my favourite days of the hockey calendar, the National Hockey League's trade deadline.
Welcome to FlamesNation's continuing coverage of Deadline Day, folks. Here's what you need to know as things start to get crazy here.
WHERE THINGS STAND
The Calgary Flames roster sits at 21 active bodies right now:
- Goalies (2): Jonas Hiller and Joni Ortio
- Defensemen (6): Mark Giordano, T.J. Brodie, Tyler Wotherspoon, Dougie Hamilton, Deryk Engelland and Jakub Nakladal
- Forwards (12): Joe Colborne, Mikael Backlund, Johnny Gaudreau, Josh Jooris, Lance Bouma, Matt Stajan, David Jones, Sean Monahan, Brandon Bollig, Michael Frolik, Micheal Ferland and Sam Bennett
- Injured But Active (1): Kris Russell (lower body)
- Injured Reserve (2): Karri Ramo (ACL), Ladislav Smid (upper body); both are done for the season
- Non-Roster (1): Dennis Wideman
We are expecting to have a recall announced at some point today, which will probably be Garnet Hathaway and Brett Kulak joining the team to top-up the roster at 23 active players - pending whatever happens with Russell today.