Only one man in franchise history, the iconic Iginla in 2001-2002, has ever lifted the Art Ross Trophy, emblematic of the NHL's season scoring titan. That year, he counted 52 goals and 96 points to outlast Vancouver's Markus Naslund by a half-dozen.
Johnny Gaudreau, currently at 54 points and trailing pacesetter Nikita Kucherov of the Bolts by seven, has a solid shot to be the second.
As well, no Flame has reached the 100-plateau since Theo Fleury, back in 1992-93.
Gaudreau, with 37 games remaining, is on pace to accomplish that, as well.
He rejoins the chase Saturday afternoon in a post-break matinee against the Winnipeg Jets (1 p.m., TV: CBC, Radio: Sportsnet960 The FAN) at the Scotiabank Saddledome.
Conroy was the Iginla's facilitator during that touchstone season of '91-92 - Dean McAmmond manning the port side - and finished second on the team in scoring, largely due to 48 helpers, the majority off goals from the captain.
Gaudreau, of course, has developed a kinetic camaraderie with Sean Monahan and now Micheal Ferland, to create one of the top lines in today's game.
Pre-Friday-results, Kucherov held a four-point lead over Colorado's Nathan McKinnon, five over NY Islanders' star John Tavares and the six over Gaudreau and Phil Kessel of the Pens.
Quite the clog of star-power.
Still, as Conroy points out, there "isn't a Gretzky or a Lemieux" among them towering over the competition, which should make this a fair, balanced fight right to Game 82.
The Iginla Art Ross arrived in an era of still having to hack your way towards the net with a scythe.
"Back then,'' Conroy recalls, "Jarome had to physically go through people. I remember goals where he'd have three guys hooking him, holding him, draped all over him, grabbing his shirt, he'd be off balance and still find a way to score.
"Ask guys who played then. It was hard getting through the natural zone without being hooked. Everybody hooked, held up for your defencemen so they could track back for the puck. If they ever did get hit, they were upset with you. That's the way the game was.
"Now, that's all been eliminated. There's no hooking, no holding, no slashing. You're not being impeded at all.
"Now it's just geared up for a playmaking guy like Johnny. Skates well, elusive. The slashing held him back last year a little bit because he'd come through the neutral zone and he'd have four or five sticks on him. Now there's no sticks on him.
"He's pretty much free to create."