What Just Happened in Calgary? A lot

Free agents: D Jay Bouwmeester, $4,875,000 (u) D Adrian Aucoin, 4,000,000 (u) LW Michael Cammalleri, 3,600,000 (u) RW Todd Bertuzzi, 1,950,000 (u) D Anders Eriksson, 1,500,000 (u) C Jamie Lundmark, 600,000 (u) LW Andre Roy, 550,000 (u) D Adam Pardy, 500,000 (u) C Dustin Boyd, 675,000 (r)

In D Jay Bouwmeester, 5 years, $33.4M (re-signed) D Adam Pardy, 2 years, $1.4M (re-signed) RW Fredrik Sjostrom (Rangers)

Out: LW Michael Cammalleri (Canadiens) D Adrian Aucoin (Coyotes)

I feel like the Flames change their roster just because they can. The turnover on this team, outside of Iginla, Phaneuf (who's subject to trade rumors all the time), and Kiprusoff, I'm pretty sure no one is safe. But with that kind of willingness/desire to win, you also end up with some hefty cap issues. That's kinda where the Flames sit right now.

But you certainly can't say they didn't improve their team. Yes, they lost Cammalleri, but now they have a full year of Olli Jokinen (take that for what it's worth). They traded the rights of Jordan Leopold for the rights of Jay Bouwmeester, yeah I think they won that one. Oh, and Adrian Aucoin? He deserved a $4 million a year contract about as much as Jay McKee ever did.

The Flames are top heavy, and outside of Langkow I'm not even sure I'd recognize anyone else on their forward depth chart. But I'm sure they're going to be right there at the top of the Northwest division before it's all said and done.