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Brad Treliving will try to upgrade his middleweight team at the deadline

The Calgary Flames began their rebuild in 2013 when they traded Jarome Iginla to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Despite not getting a whole heck of a lot for Jarome Iginla, Jay Bouwmeester and Miikka Kiprusoff, the Flames managed to build up their team and work their way up in a competitive Pacific Division.

A lot of the progress has to be credited to general manager (since 2014), Brad Treliving. But based on this season, this incarnation of the Flames seems to have plateaued. The big challenge right now for Treliving is figuring out how to break through this plateau and elevate the group from being middleweights and into true contenders.