{"id":137488,"date":"2023-05-16T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=137488"},"modified":"2023-05-16T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T14:14:54","slug":"nhl-rumours-calgary-flames-general-manager-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/16\/nhl-rumours-calgary-flames-general-manager-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Rumours: Calgary Flames General Manager Candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another helping of NHL rumours. We&#8217;re down to the last four in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, there is plenty of activity surrounding other teams. Clubs that didn&#8217;t make the post-season are trying to figure things out. The Calgary Flames missed out on the playoffs on a disappointing campaign and made some large changes. Today&#8217;s NHL rumours takes another look at the Calgary Flames general manager search.<\/p>\n<p>All NHL rumours come from the original source and are subject to change.<\/p>\n<h2>NHL Rumours<\/h2>\n<h3>Calgary Flames General Manager Search Continues<\/h3>\n<p>Rumour: Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman revealed the Calgary Flames general manager search is in the second phase. This was during the latest edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">32 Thoughts podcast<\/a>. Freidman said four names have emerged to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/04\/17\/calgary-flames-general-manager-brad-treliving-departs\/\" target=\"_self\">replace Brad Treliving.<\/a> We already talked about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/huntema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mark Hunter<\/a> as a possible candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/09\/nhl-rumours-calgary-flames-general-manager-search\/\" target=\"_self\">in a previous edition of NHL rumours.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts listed some names that have been in the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flames?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Flames<\/a> general manager search:<\/p>\n<p>Mark Bergevin<br \/>Mark Hunter<br \/>Ray Whitney<br \/>Craig Conroy<\/p>\n<p>Says they\u2019re in \u201cphase 2,\u201d which is narrowing down the list and bringing people in for interviews.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FlamesNation?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FlamesNation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeff Middleton (@jjmid04) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jjmid04\/status\/1658173336763916305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other names Friedman mentioned were former Montreal Canadiens general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/bergema01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marc Bergevin<\/a> and former NHLers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/w\/whitnra01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ray Whitney<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/c\/conrocr01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Craig Conroy<\/a>. The latter has experience with the club as a player an in the team&#8217;s front office. Friedman mentioned that Phase two means the club is narrowing down names and bringing in candidates for interviews.<\/p>\n<h3>Update on Calgary Flames General Manager Search<\/h3>\n<p>Calgary had a lot of potential going into last season after making a couple of major deals. However, the season fell below expectations and missed the post-season. Treliving and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/sutteda01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2023-05-16_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darryl Sutter<\/a> are<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2023\/05\/01\/calgary-flames-fire-head-coach-daryl-sutter\/\" target=\"_self\"> no longer with the club<\/a> and some big changes may be looming.<\/p>\n<p>Bergevin&#8217;s tenure in Montreal ended with a thud after making the Stanley Cup Final. Hunter is a proven general manager at the major junior level with the OHL&#8217;s London Knights. Conroy has a strong knowledge of the club, hasn&#8217;t been an NHL GM. Whitney would also be getting his first general manager job if he&#8217;s hired by the Flames.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a new bench boss will be the first priority for Calgary. However, there are some good players on the team that won a playoff series last season.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: \u00a0Jerome Miron-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time for another helping of NHL rumours. We&#8217;re down to the last four in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. However, there is plenty of activity surrounding other teams. Clubs that didn&#8217;t make the post-season are trying to figure things out. The Calgary Flames missed out on the playoffs on a disappointing campaign and made some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":137490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4321,22,4547,4548],"tags":[5814,264,501],"class_list":["post-137488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rumours","category-flames","category-hockey","category-nhl","tag-calgary-flames-rumours","tag-marc-bergevin","tag-mark-hunter"],"modified_by":"Tommy Bennett","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}