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For those who weren't at the Flames Fest today:





Cliff notes for Burke:

• bought a house in Bridgeland
• successful teams work hard; this group have bought in and the coaches have done a wonderful job
• has officially moved into his job this week
• Anaheim scouts thought Calgary was 1st star of the draft (Ducks loved Monahan, Poirier and Klimchuk)
• Ken King made it clear to do what's best for the hockey team and not about the economics of having Monahan's ELC contract slide another year
• Burke's guideline for staying up was Monahan had to play at least 16 mins a night
• trying to avoid Monahan as the face of the franchise as it can be detrimental to his development
• Monahan made it impossible for the Flames to do anything but keep him
• believes in community service, says the first time a player will say no to community service the Flames ask him to do, the player will be on a plane to join another team

Cliff notes for Conroy:

• Abbotsford is a young team that makes a lot of mistakes but works hard
• Billins, Horak, Knight have stood out the most, also mentions they have moved Reinhart to the wing
• specifically mentions that some of them may want to play center but to get to NHL they may need to convert to wing
• Berra has done well and has made huge strides since first game
• Jankowski and Gaudreau are playing unbelievable right now
• jokes that the Atom hockey player that carries out the flag during the pre-game introductions is Gaudreau whenever he watches the game with Feaster
• mentions Arnold, Agostino, Gillies as having great starts again this year