Five takeaways from Brad Treliving’s chat with the media

Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving held court with the local media following Wednesday’s morning skate to discuss the upcoming trade deadline. After the dust settled, we dug through the audio and found the five biggest takeaways from the session.

They’re expecting to get James Neal and Michael Stone back

The Flames aren’t expecting Neal to be out for too long – they’ll have a better idea of precise timelines next week, suspiciously after the trade deadline – but Treliving’s phrasings didn’t make it seem like he’ll be out for too long.

We’re expecting him back. So in that regard it doesn’t really change things. We’re still looking to see if there’s ways to help ourselves. It’s not a…