With the trade deadline rapidly approaching, Flames general manager Brad Treliving has made it no secret he’d like to add to his forward group, if possible. Assuming Calgary is looking to supplement without removing anything from their current roster, the conversation becomes one about organizational assets.
The problem is, the Flames have depleted those resources over the last year thanks to acquisitions of players like Travis Hamonic, Michael Stone, and Mike Smith. The team isn’t running totally empty on tradable assets, though.
I split things up into three categories to assess Calgary’s trade chips, based less on my opinion of the assets in question and more on what seems realistic from the team’s standpoint.