The first suggestion was to jog along the sea wall in Vancouver's Stanley Park.
But when Craig Conroy shrugged it off, Glen Gulutzan demonstrated the sort of outside-the-box thinking that may very well have landed him the Calgary Flames coaching gig.
Instead of resorting to a meet and greet in the Vancouver hotel or airport, the 44-year-old Flames coaching candidate suggested the two head out to the mountains for a little west coast climb.
"He said, 'hey, what about the Grouse Grind?'" recalled the Flames assistant general mnager of his first conversation with Gulutzan over a month ago when Brad -- The Boss -- Treliving sent instructions from Russia to meet.