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https://www.nhl.com/news/brad-treliv...om/c-340735594

Treliving Q&A:

"Listen, we'd like to add to our team, but the most critical part is where your team's at, right?" the Flames general manager said. "We've got some work to do to get ourselves into a better position than we currently are. We've been up and down. There's been some inconsistency to our game. It's hard to sit here and start making any proclamations about what you're going to do at the deadline. We continue to watch our team.

"We'd like to help it, but you've got to be careful how far you chase it when you're in the position we're in."

Adding a top-nine forward was a priority in training camp. Has that list changed at all or have you changed your perspective as to what this team needs?

"I'm not going to go too detailed into what we think we could need or what not. I think we could certainly use another forward. Now, as I said at that time too, people think that's coming from outside the organization. That might be coming from the inside. We've got some people within the organization that have had some good years in the [American Hockey League], we've seen (forward Jakob) Pelletier now. You do a little bit of internal auditing to see what you have internally. Can that come from within? I think our group could use another forward. Is there other pieces we'd like to tweak? Sure. It's all sort of wrapped up in the same question in 'how far can you chase this' where we're currently at right now.

On defenseman Oliver Kylington (who is away from the Flames because of personal reasons), do you have clarity as to whether or not he'll be back with the team this season, or do you need to know his status by a certain date to know how to approach the deadline?

"Yeah, certainly we do. Those are things that we work on behind the scenes. Yeah, it's certainly something we want to have clarity on as soon as we possibly can. We want to be supportive, and we have been, but certainly clarity there is going to be required as we get closer to March 3."