"Darryl Sutter is resigned to the notion fans will not be privy to a Daymond Langkow comeback.

"I can't see how it's even possible," said the Calgary Flames GM. "He's been shut down for more than a month now, and he's 34 years old. We're in our ninth month since it happened. I feel so bad for him, because he's got a heart like a horse."

Langkow suffered a spinal injury late last season when he took a point shot off the back of his neck while falling to the ice. The spinal injury kept him inactive most of the summer until he resumed skating before camp.

However, numbness in his lower body caused him to stop skating twice, including a setback in late October that had one Flames official tell QMI Agency, "It's a 50-50 proposition he'll ever play again." "