General Manager Craig Conroy has his hands full this offseason when it comes to shoring up weak points on the 2024-2025 Calgary Flames roster. While he may have twelve forwards and five defencemen already signed, the term “team needs” certainly needs to be addressed.
The 2024 off-season isn’t going to be quite as busy or crazy as 2023 was for the Calgary Flames. But that doesn’t mean they don’t have work to do. Craig Conroy is going to be a busy man between now and the first couple weeks of July.
Craig Conroy has been the general manager of the Calgary Flames for just over a year. Over that year, he’s added 22 players to the club’s reserve list via various means; seven of those players have been Russian or Belarusian.
In his season ending press conference Calgary Flames general manager Craig Conroy mentioned to the media that he is interested in the idea of acquiring younger players in a trade to help expedite the Flames re-tool.
You could make a case that General Manager Craig Conroy has handed in his homework early. The Calgary Flames are roughly five months away from commencing the 2024-2025 regular season, and the rookie Calgary exec has most of his work done.
This article is brought to you by bet365. In anticipation of an exciting 2024 NHL Draft, we can look at past draft selections under a common management group to give us a sense of Calgary’s drafting vision and potential 2024 direction.
The Calgary Flames head into the 2024 NHL draft with nine picks total, eight of those being in the first four rounds of the draft. One option for Craig Conroy and his management team is to use some of those draft picks and current NHL players to help them get another pick or two in the top half of the first round.
A year ago, the Calgary Flames’ prospect system lacked depth on the defensive side. So over the past several months, general manager Craig Conroy has gone out and acquired a bunch of young blueliners.
The order for the 2024 NHL Entry Draft is set with the conclusion of the draft lottery. The Calgary Flames were projected to pick ninth overall, and they will be.
In a season filled with ups and downs for the Calgary Flames, one major positive has to be the establishment of a new youth movement. Flames GM Craig Conroy made it clear in his introductory press conference, that bringing in younger players was going to be the main focus for the team moving forward.
After three seasons with the New Jersey Devils, Yegor Sharangovich was traded to the Calgary Flames in the Tyler Toffoli trade. At the time, many people grading the trade poorly for Calgary suggested that it was an A+ deal for New Jersey and an F for the Flames.
It’s safe to say that Craig Conroy’s first off-season as general manager of the Calgary Flames was pretty hectic. In addition to prepping for the draft and hiring a brand-new coaching staff, he had to deal with juggling seven prominent pending 2024 unrestricted free agents.
When Craig Conroy was announced as general manager in May 2023, he pledged to give young players a chance to play for the Calgary Flames. He and head coach Ryan Huska followed through on that pledge, with 11 different rookies playing games for the club in 2023-24 – a big increase from the six that made appearances in the prior season.
The Calgary Flames begin every season with a pretty simple goal: to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. If you want your team to be able to do anything impressive, making it into the post-season tournament is a requirement.
The Calgary Flames can’t officially re-sign Yegor Sharangovich until July 1. That doesn’t mean they can’t talk about it before then — and they ought to.
If Craig Conroy is going to follow the “Dallas Stars model” for retooling this Calgary Flames team, he’s gonna need a lot more draft picks.
In 2021-22, one of the best stories around the Calgary Flames was the emergence of blueliner Oliver Kylington as an everyday NHL player. In 2022-23, one of the more disappointing stories was Kylington’s absence due to mental health challenges.
The Calgary Flames are about to embark on another interesting off-season as they continue their re-tool. It sounds like Craig Conroy wants to get the team competitive again in time for when the new arena opens.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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