If I were Conroy, I'd be looking at trading for Orlov in the offseason.
He has one year left at almost $8 million and he's 4/5 in 5v5 ice time for them. He hasn't played badly there, but Carolina has better D ahead of him.
I think they would rather sign one of their UFAs and trade him.
Could get him for pretty cheap due to the cap hit.
Then Flames don't have to overpay on cap and term for a free agent, and he would be pretty moveable at the deadline with retention.
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