After an eventful few days on the home front - full of Super Bowl parties, abruptly short practices, healthy scratches and a seven-hour appeals hearing for Dennis Wideman at the NHL offices in New York - the Calgary Flames are now on the road for a few days and have a wonderful distraction from all the tumult at home: a pair of really important divisional clashes.
First up? A trip to Silicon Valley, where they visit the illustrious Shark Tank and the San Jose Sharks. San Jose is one of many, many teams ahead of the Flames in the NHL standings and they haven't fared too well against them thus far in 2015-16.