Despite RW Tim Jackman rumours to the contrary, all of the players were accounted for this morning at the Flames’ skate.
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Everyone, including RW David Moss and Jackman, was on the ice.
“We kind of figured it out in the room before we got out there,” C Michael Cammalleri said of the full complement of players. “Everyone was here this morning.”
And, of course, there’s a perfect distraction to the NHL trade deadline — which is 1 p.m., by the way — and that is a visit from the St. Louis Blues, one of the best teams in the league.
“It’s almost a good thing that it’s a game day,” said D Mark Giordano. “Basically, you can just go through your routine and get ready for a big game. This is a huge two points. There’s a lot of coverage . . . but you try not to think about it. Just go through our routine, the pre-game skate, we’ll have a meal and go from there. Just like any other game day.”
The trade deadline does tend to rile up reporters and fans, there’s no denying that.
“It’s become such a media frenzy,” said Cammalleri. “It’s almost anticlimactic now . . . you probably expect less to happen. According to the talk shows, everybody in the league is getting traded today. I would assume there won’t be 700 trades today.”
