READY FOR THE FIRE SALE

With a plethora of pending UFAs, the Flames are the main focus leading up to the NHL’s March 8 trade deadline

BY JARED CLINTON

BACK IN HIS TIME at Clarkson University, Craig Conroy was a management major. That’s fitting enough given his career arc, which has seen him transition seamlessly from his 1,000-game NHL job into front-office duty, eventually rising into the big chair when he was named Calgary Flames GM in May. But a quality education is nothing without a bit of diversification, and it seems Conroy managed to find time during his college days to learn that oft-repeated aphorism about history: those who don’t learn from it are destined to repeat it. The history, in this instance, isn’t even all that ancient. It was only 2022 when Conroy, then an assistant GM in Calgary, had front-row seats to the saga surrounding Johnny Gaudreau, who remained a Flame through that season’s trade deadline despite…

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