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Conroy's a big boy and doesn't need a White Knight defending his honour regarding a blog post that Fleury himself retracted shortly after posting, realizing his honesty would create headaches. No-one forgets on the internet, of course.

Class apparently doesn't have anything to do with leaving money on the table... which Fleury did for the Flames and which Conroy didn't when he signed with Los Angeles after the cup run. And then there's the fact Conroy himself admitted the ice was tilted in favor of players like himself against after Fleury's comeback attempt: "The reality was, coming in, there’s 14 forwards here on one-way contracts. It makes it tough for someone to come in here and take a job."

Also "take a job?" that's some no-good sense of entitlement, isn't it?

How many people were complaining about the fact Setoguchi was getting playing time based on a similar idea? Are fans happy paying premium prices for seats while management isn't putting out the best product on the ice because it slightly affects their rather healthy bottom line?

It's not like Conroy had only nice things to say about Fleury when he returned to Calgary:

"I hated him," said Conroy. "Really... He's kind of yappy, but he works hard. He's in your face. It's always about winning, and he competes hard... He probably said some stuff to me."

That quote is fairly innocuous compared to Fleury's blog straight up, but this is nice guy Conroy speaking some ill ('hated him', 'yappy') versus Fleury who isn't surprising anyone when he shoots his mouth off.

Also, where did the Flames go out of their way to help Fleury get reinstated? I've read of meetings involving league and NHLPA officials, along with Fleury and his agent - can you point me at some article that shows how the Flames helped Fleury get reinstated?

Finally, Conroy played 81 games over 2 seasons, registering 5 goals and 12 assists, after the preseason Fleury played for the Flames. Would it really have been so bad to risk an entry level amount of money on a former player hell bent on winning based on his on-ice performance to that point and in spite of his age who had put up essentially the same stats as Iginla, with the understanding there wasn't room for something like a 37-game no goal drought playing 13.5 minutes a night?

After all, the Flames were fine with burning a contract on Conroy in 2010-2011 in order to get Conroy to 1000 games; why not take a cheap flyer on the chance Fleury's pre-season results were more than a fluke seeing as the sample size was small enough to say the results weren't certain? I remember that Fleury didn't have the speed he once did but last I checked the puck travels faster than any player can skate and it's the scoreboard that has the final say on whether a team has succeeded and not the number of smiles in the dressing room.