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Goalie Dustin Wolf<\/a>, 24, also put together a season worthy of his selection as a finalist for the Calder Trophy, awarded to the NHL rookie of the year. Wolf was 29-16-8 in 53 games with a 2.64 goals-against average, .910 save percentage and three shutouts.<\/p>\n

All four are expected to take another step this season, along with forwards Joel Farabee<\/a>, 25, Morgan Frost<\/a>, 26, and Adam Klapka<\/a>, 24, and defensemen Kevin Bahl<\/a>, 25, and Brayden Pachal<\/a>, 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you like to see the young guys that we\u2019ve been bringing up as we\u2019ve gone along,\u201d Conroy said. \u201cI\u2019m going to need Farabee, I\u2019m going to need Frost, Zary, Matty Coronato, just guys like that, that can come in and are going to have to play better for us and are going to have to give us more offense and take the next step. If they do, that\u2019s going to be the difference for us.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Klapka and Pospisil, those are what we need right now; those are the guys that we need to rise and be better and we\u2019re going to need them to play more and that\u2019s going to give them that chance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calgary also has several prospects in its system looking to break through this season.<\/p>\n

Defenseman Zayne Parekh<\/a>, 19, scored in his NHL debut April 17 in the final game of the season at the Los Angeles Kings. He was selected No. 9 in the 2024 NHL Draft and is expected to get a long look at training camp after he had 107 points (33 goals, 74 assists) in 61 games with Saginaw of the Ontario Hockey League last season.<\/p>\n

Forward Sam Morton<\/a>, 26, also scored in his NHL debut at Los Angeles and could battle for a roster spot after a strong season with Calgary of the American Hockey League, where he had 45 points (20 goals, 25 assists) in 70 games.<\/p>\n

Conroy said there is going to be competition throughout the lineup this season with the Flames looking to qualify for the playoffs for the first time since 2021-2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome take a spot, come take a job, earn it, take it,\u201d he said. \u201cIf there\u2019s an injury, you get a chance, never give that spot back. It\u2019s hard to say there\u2019s one spot here and one spot there, they\u2019re all open in my mind, but these veteran guys aren\u2019t going to give you anything, we need the younger guys to push the veteran guys to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Goalie Dustin Wolf, 24, also put together a season worthy of his selection as a finalist for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-44145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}