The Avalanche are turning up the heat on the Flames, which will only ramp up those lingering rumours that Jim Playfair is in trouble as Calgary's head coach. But GM Darryl Sutter dismissed that talk Monday. "Every time the team has lost two in a row, that's become the speculation and the speculation is not valid, let's put it that way," Sutter said in an interview with The Canadian Press. "It's tight and it's close and that's the way it's supposed to be. "And I think our coaches have done a really good job."