The day is Feb. 22. That means we are officially T-minus seven days until the trade deadline. Just one more week until the Flames organization is locked into place and left to meet their fate with the personnel they have, whether they miss the playoffs or... yeah, miss the playoffs is probably the only realistic option here.
And what should teams that are going to miss the playoffs do? Buying would be ludicrous; even if there's a single attainable player out there that could make the Flames a playoff team, they're still rather far behind the eight ball.