So this is the thing about Calgary: Craig Conroy clearly has a plan. His plan is to start turning over his team a little bit. We talked before about teams getting completely run over and not being competitive, and your young players getting man-handled. He stopped short of that. He said I’m not going to bring in veterans, I’m going to keep them. Yes, he brought in a couple, but he kept a couple. And that is what he wanted to do. I don’t think he wanted to completely tear it down. I think we can all see where the Flames are going. They are in a rebuild, but he didn’t want to do it to where the young players starting up would get completely destroyed on ice.

Now, there have been some rumours about some of the Flames players. This is what I believe is going on. I think there are some players, who are still there, who have said ‘look, if this is a complete teardown, I’d like you to think about something else.’ And Craig Conroy has said look, last year was a really difficult summer for us, this year has been a much better summer, it’s been a lot quieter, I’d like to keep it that way. His plan is to start the year, see how it goes, and then decide what he’s going to do with some of these players. He’s asked his players to keep an open mind, see how this year goes, and then he’ll start looking at what he might need to do or what they want to do. I think those players have said okay, we will do that. And especially I think now, everybody’s just like okay, there’s bigger things, more important things, we don’t need any different noise.