The Calgary Flames played the Edmonton Oilers on Tuesday evening in a game that was utterly and completely devoid of meaning in the traditional sense. Zero points were handed out in the standings and neither team is any closer to raising a Stanley Cup.
So what value did the Flames get out of the undertaking?
Centre shuffling
Sam Bennett spent a chunk of training camp as the third line centre (between Milan Lucic and Dillon Dube) due to Derek Ryan being briefly unavailable. Ryan’s return bumped Bennett down to the fourth line, in a mix that included Mark Jankowski, Tobias Rieder and Zac Rinaldo.