My guess would be some sort of progress/status check. He's an RFA this year and the Flames need to decide if they want to qualify him or not. So call him up, see how he's doing, let him skate around in practice and join in a little Flames team building and see how he does.
Plus, at the time of the call-up, the Heat didn't have all of these injuries so it seemed like it would be okay. Then two more guys went down and we ended up short benched.
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