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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
As for Conroy - yes, he is inexperienced, but at what point is a guy who has been working in management and being groomed to become a GM ready? Also, I would say he is a good talent evaluator - he has found a lot of prospects for the Flames over the years IIRC. Wasn't he the guy responsible for Duehr as his latest find?
This is all irrelevant anyway. Flames are going to go all the way this year, Treliving will be extended since he would officially become a great GM, and we can carry on arguing about other things.
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Agreed with your statements in general, but I wouldn't call Conroy inexperienced. 1000gp+ as a player, coming up on 10 years as AGM of the Flames. That kind of resume has gotten a fair number of player's into GM roles (Guerin, Drury, Grier, Yzerman, Blake, Verbeek). By all accounts these guys have done a pretty good job so far of turning around their teams.
I have no idea what Conroy's personal philosophy on team management, player development, analytics etc are but those are the things that will get him into a GM role, not his experience at this point IMO.