[GreenLantern2814]

Conroy began his tenure with six UFAs - he extended the only one who’d been a lifelong Calgary Flame, and turned the other five into 15 assets, including four Russian/Belarussian NHLers, two 1sts, one (likely two) 2nds, and three prospect D.

There are only four Flames under contract longer than two years heading into next season.

Huberdeau - $10.5M (7Y)
Kadri - $7M (5Y)
Weegar - $6.25M (7Y)
Coleman - $4.9M (3Y)

They will have all their retention slots available once the season is over.

No key RFAs due major raises for at least another year.

Conroy can say “playoffs” all he wants - the goal for the players in the room should always be playoffs. They’re not getting paid to lose.

But this is a rebuild. There are 12 UFAs over the next two seasons, including both goalies, one of whom has already been in trade rumours for two months.

This doesn’t mean they’re going to trade all of them - Sharangovich works with Huberdeau - if he wants to stay for a fair contract, keep him. Same with Andersson - he’s a drafted Flame. If he wants to stay at a non-extortionist number, keep him by all means.

But they won’t keep them all, and the ones that aren’t kept are going to be traded. For 2nds, 3rds, 5ths, it doesn’t matter - they’ll be traded for something.

They can’t reasonably blow their brains out in UFA, since they just traded the five best UFAs on the market.

They don’t have a choice. They're in a rebuild.

Knowing everything about the way this organization does business, there’s no way they don’t want Tij Iginla - they have the assets to secure him if they choose.

I don’t think they’re going to want him to fail. I think they’re going to want to around him with another two draft’s worth of high picks, and be an ascendant team when their new building opens.

Don’t listen to what they say - they say a lot of things.

Look at what they’re doing.

What they’re doing is rebuilding