News that Flames GM Darryl Sutter would not be conducting his public postmortem until Monday, well after the body had cooled, immediately sent tongues 'a-waggin'. To many, that fact alone signals Keenan's doom.

The five days of grace, the thinking goes, gives the Flames time to render judgment, release Keenan on the weekend, spare him the indignity of another round of interrogation, while preventing Sutter from being put in the compromising position of answering questions Wednesday he didn't want to respond to before the deed is actually done.