Could Craig Conroy pull off another move or more before Friday's final call for deals?

No NHL GM has had to work the phones as hard as the Calgary Flames’ Craig Conroy since last season. With less than 48 hours remaining before the trade deadline, his work may not yet be done.

However, his list of pending UFAs uninterested in re-signing with the Flames has been reduced from four to zero — with defenceman Noah Hanifin’s deal to the Vegas Golden Knights on Wednesday the final strikethrough on Conroy’s urgent to-do list.

Whether a late Jacob Markstrom trade or some other move follows remains to be seen (nothing would surprise at this point) but Conroy has turned Nikita Zadorov, Elias Lindholm, Chris Tanev and Hanifin into four defence prospects, seven or eight future picks, and more opportunity for its young players to gain more NHL experience.

These were expiring contracts, so regardless of how anyone feels about the return for each individual — especially Tanev and Hanifin — there are more than a dozen quantifiable assets now in the Flames franchise that were not there before.

Hanifin had the Flames at his mercy as he tried to influence his landing spot with his power to control his next contract. In the end, the Flames got the return value of a rental, with the key being the development of defenceman Daniil Moromanov.

The right-handed blueliner who stands 6-foot-4 and boasts a heavy shot hasn’t been able to regularly crack the Knights lineup, but with how stacked that team is at the position, it’s not overly surprising.

Miromanov was an AHL all-star last year and a player the Flames say they’ve been “tracking” and identified as a potential breakout.

They nailed it with the Yegor Sharangovich trade last summer, sending another pending UFA Tyler Toffoli to New Jersey, so at this point you have to give some benefit of the doubt to the Flames. Not every player is going to hit, but there are plenty to choose from now, which should create plenty of competition. Especially on the back end.

“We have been tracking Daniil the past couple of seasons and we are pleased to have been able to ensure he was a part of this trade,” Conroy said in a statement. “At the AHL level he has been dominant in creating offence as a defenceman and we anticipate that to translate to the NHL.”

Miromanov had knee surgery last summer, which cost him the first four months of the current season. He went to the AHL on a conditioning stint in late January and had a goal and six points in five games.

He jumped up to the NHL and filled in as a top-four blueliner before Shea Theodore came back from injury and relegated Miromanov to the press box. The Flames were so confident, they quickly signed the Russian to a two-year extension with an AAV of $1.25 million.

With time to continue to make adjustments, Conroy could flip any of his new assets, or additional roster players, for more young players with upside.

His work clearly isn’t done. The team was a power broker ahead of the NHL trade deadline and will continue to be one at the upcoming draft and what’s sure to be another busy offseason.