Speculation: Armchair GM 2024-25 Season, Craig Conroy's Can Do Calgary Flames

[Ledge And Dairy]

I don't even know why y'all are debating. If Buffalo trades their 2025 first, it will 100% have protections.

AFAIK in the NHL you can't protect a pick for multiple years but maybe I'm wrong. Where Buffalo stands right now they would want their 2026 first protected too and if they trade their 2025 1st with protection there is a very high chance that protection will kick in and push it to 2026 unprotected. That is my point.

I wonder what, if anything, it would take for Conny to pry 24 year old, 6’5”, 210 lb second-year LHD and pending RFA Mason Lohrei (4 goals and 28 points in 57 games) out of Boston? For all the Bruins players that are apparently available, he’s the only one their entire roster I’d have any interest in the Flames acquiring.

Highly unlikely. They are quite high on him

 

[Don John]

I wonder what, if anything, it would take for Conny to pry 24 year old, 6’5”, 210 lb second-year LHD and pending RFA Mason Lohrei (4 goals and 28 points in 57 games) out of Boston? For all the Bruins players that are apparently available, he’s the only one their entire roster I’d have any interest in the Flames acquiring.

What would be the Bruins motivation for moving him?

 

[Volica]

What would be the Bruins motivation for moving him?

IIRC Bruins fans were hard line stance against trading him for any of the Flames UFA's last season, and they were sniffing around a lot of our guys.

My hope for the next few days is that Conroy simply listens to what GMs are willing to do on the veterans we have. I know we're in a race, I know we're committed to competing, but I just hope that it's not like 'instant no' when someone mentions one of the older guys.

Look at the end of the day, I don't think there are many trades we could make that would move the needle enough to make us a much worse or a much better team. Trading Andersson, I don't think that makes us a bottom 5 team all of a sudden; I don't think we could get anything back in an Andersson trade that really makes all of us sit back and go 'wow'. Similarly to trading for a decent defender makes us a contender, or that trading one of our prospects (Minus Parekh) would sink this retool/rebuild.

In this league you just have to wait until general managers make stupid moves. That's it. Like it's wild to say that, but the NHL is such a high turnover league in terms of management that you just have to wait until someone gets desperate enough to do something stupid. Someone's willing to try to save their jobs on a whim, someone's willing to please their ownership group and do a 'right now' type trade.

 

[Lunatik]

AFAIK in the NHL you can't protect a pick for multiple years but maybe I'm wrong. Where Buffalo stands right now they would want their 2026 first protected too and if they trade their 2025 1st with protection there is a very high chance that protection will kick in and push it to 2026 unprotected. That is my point.

I've never heard of a rule preventing this. But then again I can't think of any trades with protections in multiple seasons. The closest I can think of is our conditional 1st in the Monahan trade.

• 2024 - If the Flames pick is 20+ Montreal can choose to take it.
• 2025 - Top 10 protected if the Panthers 1st in 2025 transfers to Calgary/#1 protected if the Panthers 1st in 2025 does not transfer to Calgary
• 2026 - If the Panthers 1st in 2025 does not transfer and Calgary's pick is 1st overall.