Flames veteran Stajan will share lesson learned from franchise legends

SAN JOSE — This trail of advice can be traced to some of the Calgary Flames’ franchise greats, although Matt Stajan was in Toronto when it was passed along to him.

As a rookie centre with the 2003-04 Maple Leafs, Stajan was playoff-bound.

First of many, right?

“We had a very veteran team and I was a young guy, and I remember Gary Roberts saying: ‘Guys, we have a chance to do something special here. Let’s really enjoy this and take advantage of it, because you don’t know when you’re going to be back in this position,’ ” Stajan recalled. “That’s what he said about his career, because he won in his second year in Calgary, and he said the older guys said that to him and Joe Nieuwendyk. So they…