The number one thing I heard, ‘cause there were a lot of questions about Whitecloud. What were they going to do with Whitecloud? Another team told me that they heard that Whitecloud is not in a hurry to get out of there. He’s not someone who shows up and says ‘no, this isn’t for me, and can I go somewhere else.’ That is not the case. That doesn’t mean he doesn’t get traded, but it means that the Flames are happy to have players that are happy there, and they’re not motivated to move him. They get a great offer, look out. There’s not much else you can do. You get a great offer, you jump at it. But I’ve just heard from a couple teams that Whitecloud indicated to the Flames he’s happy to stay, and therefore they’re not rushing him to the front of the list, we’ve got to trade this guy.

The biggest challenge the Flames will have is all their guys have competition. Kadri, I think people love Kadri the player, I’m not sure they’re crazy about the term, and also there’s other centres. There’s Trocheck, who we mentioned. There’s O’Reilly, who we’ll get to. There’s other centres available. So while I do think people like Kadri the player, between the age and the term I think that’s the challenge that the Flames are going to have. Like I said, people like Coleman, people like Weegar, but there are other players around them. And Conroy has shown he’s not afraid to be patient. And if you look at some of the deals he’s made to get younger, when he has had some leverage to wait, he’s done a pretty good job using that.