If there’s one thing that Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving loves to do, it’s acquiring depth defensemen when his team is in contention at the trade deadline.
In 2015, Treliving snagged David Schlemko on waivers from the Dallas Stars. Two years later, he brought in Matt Bartkowski on a tryout from the AHL’s Providence Bruins and signed him a day later, also adding right-handed rearguard Michael Stone in a trade with the Arizona Coyotes.
Fast-forward another two years, and, reluctant to mess with the chemistry of the first-place 2019 Flames, Treliving made L.A. Kings depth defender Oscar Fantenberg his big deadline acquisition.