It’s been a pretty wild 10 months on the job for new Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy. First he had to replace an entire coaching staff, then he had to run his first draft as a GM, then he had to deal with the Flames’ oodles of pending unrestricted free agents.
MANALAPAN, Fla. — Ask Craig Conroy how his first nine months as general manager of the Calgary Flames have been, and he can do little more than let out a long sigh.
After a week of beatdowns the Calgary Flames found some flow and were able to take down the Vegas Golden Knights.
Let’s start with a basic principle, friends: the Colorado Avalanche are a very good hockey team. If you look at the Avalanche and the Calgary Flames, on paper, you’d probably favour the Avalanche to win.
If you’re a new reader – and if so, welcome! – you might have noticed two things about the Calgary Flames over the course of the 2023-24 so far. First, they sure have moved a lot of good roster players for futures.
In the aftermath of the NHL’s annual trade deadline, sometimes the trades that weren’t consummated are as fascinating as the deals that did come to fruition.
Well, it finally happened. The Calgary Flames traded arguably the biggest fish in the NHL, top-four defenceman Noah Hanifin, to the Vegas Golden Knights.
Since he took the job last May, Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy has been grinding. He’s been working on resolving the situations of seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
The Calgary Flames will likely have a quiet trade deadline day tomorrow, as they have moved out all their pending unrestricted free agents (UFAs) which they were expected to.
The day he was announced as the new general manager of the Calgary Flames, Craig Conroy pledged to keep an eye on asset management when it came to the club’s seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
The 2024 NHL trade deadline is just about here! History can be a great teacher, and when we look at how teams have behaved in the past in the trade market, we can reasonably project how they may behave in the future.
It’s debatable that Brad Treliving had his phone on during Wednesday when half the league decided to have an impromptu trade frenzy. And while it seems
Well, one of the trades everyone has been waiting for finally went down. Chris Tanev is headed to the Dallas Stars at 75% retained salary (the New Jersey Devils are retaining 25%), and the Calgary Flames, in return, are receiving Artem Grushnikov, a 2024 second-round pick, and a 2026 conditional third-round pick.
Back in May 2023, when Craig Conroy was named the Calgary Flames’ new general manager, he pledged to focus on asset management when it came to the club’s seven pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
The NHL’s trade deadline is less than two weeks away. The Calgary Flames are expected to be a central figure in the trade markets, given the club having a couple impressive pending unrestricted free agents.
Friends, during the run-up to the NHL’s annual trade deadline, you’re going to hear a lot about the potential for the Calgary Flames to retain salary on impending trades.
With the 2024 Trade Deadline less than a month away, NHL teams are in for a busy next few weeks as player movement and other team transactions start. A team that has been in the thick of trade talks and rumors all season has been the Calgary Flames.
Sportsnet: Calgary Flames GM Craig Conroy on the Jeff Marek Show on where they’re at with some of their pending free agents. He knew they wouldn’t be re-signing Elias Lindholm.
It’s been another disappointing season for the Flames, who sit 12th in the Western Conference with a .500 record and are down to a 19% chance of making the playoffs, per Hockey Reference.
Conroy’s endless positivity and progressive ideas garnered rave reviews in Calgary on Tuesday. He’s more than proven himself as someone who’s easy to root for.
It’s official. The Calgary Flames have announced that former forward Craig Conroy has succeeded Brad Treliving as the eighth general manager of the Calgary Flames. The team also announced that Brad Pascall will now be the VP of hockey operations and assistant GM, while Chris Snow will be the VP of data and analytics, as well as an assistant GM.
The Calgary Flames are slated to announce Craig Conroy as their new general manager next week, according to reports. The move comes just over a month after firing former general manager Brad Treliving, who served nine years with the Flames organization.
TSN’s Darren Dreger is reporting the Calgary Flames are expected to name Craig Conroy their next general manager, promoting him from the assistant role he’s held since 2014.
For seemingly being a part of the Flames organization all of his adult life, there is no question as to why Conroy is the favorite to become the new general manager in Calgary.
As Daily Faceoff’s Frank Seravalli noted on Sportsnet 960 today, the Calgary Flames could be considering an organizational veteran to fill their vacant general manager role.
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