Treliving: Flames looking to trade; have "no appetite" to mortgage future

Calgary Flames GM Brad Treliving was on Sportnet’s Hockey Central @ Noon on Monday afternoon.

On if where his team is in the standings has altered his way of thinking on the second half of the season:

“Well, I mean a couple of things guys. First of all, in one degree, no. Where we’re at in terms of building our team, you’ve always got the big picture in mind. And so as I’ve said sort of throughout the year, the job is to look daily and ask the question, ‘How do we get better?’

“So in that regard, we look to see each day how we can make ourselves better whether that’s internally, whether that’s moves from within, whether that’s looking outside the organization. Obviously you want to help your team, but as I try to be consistent with it, I have no appetite for throwing a bunch of young assets out the door or giving up top picks for something that could help us for a week or two. That’s something that we just don’t have a whole lot of appetite in.”

On if he’s a buyer at the deadline, or more of a stand pat guy:

“I think the deadline is a time where you can help yourself as an organization. But again, if there’s things there that we feel can help us now but without a cost in terms of our future, then we’d look at it. Like I said, anything that’s going to cost a young asset that we feel has a chance to play for us down the road, giving up picks, those are – we’re just not at that stage right now. But if the question is, ‘Are we looking to do some things?’ Sure. You’re always trying to make yourselves better. But we’re trying to keep a long-term approach in mind in anything that we do.”

Source: Sportsnet/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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