It makes no sense to keep two UFA pending defensemen on a team that has no hope of making noise in the playoffs.
1) The team's goal differential suggests this is not a playoff caliber team. The team might sneak into the playoffs and have coin-flip odds to win a round or two given how weak the division is. But you'd have to be nuts to think this iteration of the flames could challenge against St Louis, Colorado, Boston, Tampa, Toronto, Washington or Pittsburgh.
2) The teams star players have been atrocious. In almost any playoff series the flames could match up against in the first round (St Louis, Colorado, Edmonton, Vegas, Vancouver), the top two players on the ice are probably from the other team.
3) The flames don't have an ace in the hole - a hot goalie or a game breaker where you might even think, "well maybe there's a chance for something special here" as a dark horse. There's no Quick, Kane, Crosby, Theodore, Price, Kipper, etc
If Treliving is intellectually honest, he'd be a seller at the deadline.
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