“I just thought: you know what, what’s the one thing you can’t buy, you have to earn it, and you can only do if you’re in the NHL?” Ten years after first asking himself that question, Flames assistant general manager Craig Conroy remains driven by the same thing he chased for more than 1,000 games on the ice: a Stanley Cup.
Now with a decade of front office experience to his name, Conroy is in an interesting spot. More than anything, he wants to win a Cup in Calgary, his adopted home for the better part of two decades.