Nov. 28: The Flames announced Conroy’s two-year extension through 2027-28 and revealed they’ve given deals of the same term to virtually their entire core front office: president of hockey operations Don Maloney, AGM Dave Nonis, and AGM Brad Pascall.
Nov. 26: According to Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman, the Calgary Flames are nearing an extension with General Manager Craig Conroy. Ryan Pike of Flames Nation relayed a note from Sportsnet’s Eric Francis indicating it’s a two-year agreement.
It’s a relatively expected outcome for the third-year front office leader. Outside of his nine-year career with the Flames on the ice in the early to mid-2000s, Conroy had spent the nine years preceding his appointment as the team’s General Manager as Calgary’s Assistant General Manager. Putting it all together — Conroy has spent the last quarter-century involved with the Flames in some capacity.
Embarked on a retool for his tenure up to this point, the Flames have yet to bear the fruits of Conroy’s labor. In the first few years as General Manager, Conroy shipped out several veterans, such as Tyler Toffoli, Nikita Zadorov, Elias Lindholm, Chris Tanev, Noah Hanifin, and Jacob Markström, among others.
There’s consensus that Conroy has used the returned assets to good use. Although they haven’t returned to postseason contention under his stewardship yet, many rankings from before the 2025-26 season indicate that the Flames have a top-10 prospect pool in the league.
Additionally, Conroy had the task of finding a new bench boss for Calgary, ultimately landing upon Ryan Huska ahead of the 2023-24 campaign. Before this season, Huska had a 79-66-19 record as the Flames’ head coach, averaging 89 points a year.
Unfortunately, Calgary has seemingly taken a step backward this season. Finishing one regulation win outside of the 2025 Stanley Cup playoffs, the Flames currently find themselves in 31st place with an 8-13-3 record. Much of that has to do with a lethargic offense, which has averaged 2.38 GF/G.
At any rate, Flames ownership appears happy with the work Conroy has done thus far and is giving him additional time to see the organization through the rebuild. Given their position in the standings, Conroy will have his work cut out for him leading up to this season’s trade deadline, as the Flames could once again offload several veteran players.
What has Conroy done to deserve a 2yr extension?
Listens to Murray
Put them in position to get Gavin
Has anyone seen Gavin!?
Yes. An elite 17 year old kid playing against 20-24 year olds. Quite the adjustment from playing against 16-20 year olds.
I do wonder if his stats this year will deter future CHL stars away from NCAA until after getting drafted however
Yep. Stat line of 4/14/18 in 16 games. As a 17 year old.
Look everyone: dogkaren is on his high horse about something
Yeah those are good numbers for a D+1 season. Apparently he’s shown some work ethic issues however. Which isn’t consistent with the superelite of the game. I wonder if he loses his 1OA projected draft position.
I know he’s draft elligible I mean those are good numbers EVEN for a D+1 season.
Guess the Flames picked a direction.
He might be worse than KEVYN ADAMS.
My god.
CLUELESS.
I think you are clueless!
tit-4-tat ego ego eh? Look yourself and shithole CalGary in the mirror!
Have you even been there? What kind of comment is that?
Odd timing for an extension although, Conroy hasn’t been bad at his job, The Flames are also a better club than their 5 and 15 record indicates through the first quarter of the season, Perhaps a veteran coach like Peter DeBoer could turn the Flames around.
We don’t want to turn it around. If you are going to be bad for some good picks…this is the year.