Doomsday.
That's what it would have been, had the Colorado Avalanche not matched the offer sheet the Calgary Flames sent Ryan O'Reilly's way.
For all the good fortune that has been bestowed upon the team since finally accepting the need to rebuild, the Flames would have suffered a major setback had it not been for Greg Sherman. The goal was to get a quality centre, and while O'Reilly was the target, Sean Monahan was the end result: a result that would not have happened if Sherman had simply let O'Reilly go.