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The message from Flames management Sunday was pretty clear: They’re going to play around with some different combinations, but it’s best not to overreact.

“We’ll go on the ice tomorrow and the big story will be who is playing with who, and I caution everybody that it’s Day 1. It might be different in Day 2, it could be different in Day 3,” said Flames GM Brad Treliving. “I know we’ll tweet out ‘Here’s what’s going on’ but it’s not gospel. I think what we’ll use, whether it be through training camp or even the beginning of the year, we’ve got some good players and we may experiment with some different things.”

“There’s nothing written in stone,” Ward said. “I think we do ourselves a disservice if we don’t take a look, potentially, at what some new people may inject with some of the people we have.

“We know what the lineup was like that we ended the year with and we’re comfortable with that lineup, but I think we’re doing ourselves a disservice if we don’t take the opportunity to see if we have a better potential-lineup than the one we ended with.”

So they are really doing nothing unusual. Going to experiment with new combos but are pretty much fine with how things looked at the end last year.

https://calgarysun.com/sports/flames...line-shuffling