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Originally Posted by flambers
Flames biggest challenge is their lack of direction, they seem to be a team forever stuck as a bubble team. Just good enough to maybe make the playoffs (some years or finish 17th to 20th )
Prospect depth is a organization weakness, this will be a problem that Conroy has to address
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Conroy has only been the GM for a few months. The Flames seemed to have a good draft, they didn't not move out any picks and added 1 in the Toffoli trade.
So far Conroy has made the team much younger and the prospect pool from what I have seen is ranked slightly higher than last year. Some of those gains come from Wolf though too.
The trade market hasn't been great for sellers either. Philly picked a direction and their prospect pool is much stronger than ours, but most of that comes from picks they had before the big sell off by Briere. Briere has put them in a spot that they should draft high and in a years time they could have a top 3 prospect pool in the league. But they aren't up a lot of picks, the retained salary and buyouts aren't great and they only have Farabee and Sanheim commited long term. They will be a good team to follow as they were a team that did what lots of fans wanted right when Conroy took over.
Conroy's next move will tell us alot, but it's been painful waiting to see what that next move is.