It’s odd the things that cause a team to really get rolling. The Calgary Flames had a lot of good pieces in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but you could make a strong argument that the arrival of two-way centre Craig Conroy from St. Louis in 2001 was the ingredient that caused the group to really start clicking.
A really important Flames figure both on and off the ice, Conroy is #19 on our countdown.
Player, 2001-04 and 2007-11; Special Assistant to the General Manager, 2011-14; Assistant General Manager, 2014-present A product of upstate New York, Conroy was drafted out of high school by the Montreal Canadiens and played his college hockey at Clarkson University.