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Originally Posted by Heavy Jack
The flames are soooooo asset rich that if they ended up making a splash for a big name player (cozens) or spent from an area of strength (mid to late picks/b-c prospects) to reward the team if they do find themselves where they are right now closer to the deadline then I’m ok with it. The culture Conroy is building is remarkable, we have one of the best teams in the ahl under the same roof and have graduated 6, 6!!!!! Players from the AHL to full timers over the past calendar year. There is still a good amount of talent below that is pushing (Stromgren, Bru and Cooley leading their respective groups at Forward, D and Goalie) and literally boatloads of picks having fantastic D+ years across the Canadian Junior leagues, NCAA and in Russia. We have 4 Guaranteed 1sts still through the next two drafts and all of your current worry is based on hypotheticals. Lots of hockey from now until the deadline and so far Craig Conroy has vastly accrued more assets than he has spent, more than any Flames gm has in my years as a fan. This isn’t the same ole same ole, Conroy has happily traded players away and has been somewhat bullied by other gm’s and the media going into trading all of the players that he ended up trading, even still after the trades he has executives saying he didn’t take the best offer (conveniently I might add) for Hanifin or Tanev while he has Insiders like Frank talking down the value of these players all the way until they were traded. Conny is proving himself so far as a GM, he’s done everything right so far after be dealt a 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, Jack be happy he’s handled it as well as he has.
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I would pump the brakes here. We have only had 2 full drafts with Conroy, and the draft prior with Treliving we had 2 picks.
We are just building our prospect base back to a top tier level.