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Some good soundbites from Connie (shocker, I know):

Happy to do what he could at a difficult time for the organization, Conroy borrowed Mark Giordano’s skates in Buffalo and helped run drills, offered feedback and provided encouragement. He even stayed late to team up with Gelinas for a two-on-two grudge match with the healthy scratches, which he claims to have won in Buffalo despite ill-fitting Bauers.

His takeaways?

“You kind of remember when you played and think, ‘well, it was only 2010-11,’ but so much had changed really,” chuckled the former Flames captain and 1,000-game man, who is now 48.

“Especially the first game, the pace blew me away, and how much quicker it is than from above. I had never seen an iPod on the bench; they’re changing skate blades bam-bam-bam; they’re changing gloves like crazy. I wore my gloves all game. We used to come in after and dry them. Now they’re flying all over the guys’ heads.

P.S. Looks like he's done behind the bench:

The Flames assistant GM has simply finished a two-game stint at ice level, where he was asked to spend the last nine days huddled up with the coaches as an observer and helping hand.

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Nor will he let anyone forget he’ll wrap up the stint a perfect 2-0.

“(Flames PR, Sean) Kelso is putting it in the bio now,” he said, laughing.

“You don’t want to jeopardize that perfect record – there’s no point.”

Link: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/...ice-evolution/