Given how Phaneuf has turned out, the Flames 1st round draft history in the past 20 years has been simply awful.
Trevor Kidd
Niklas Sundblad
Cory Stillman
Jesper Mattsson
Chris Dingman
Denis Gauthier
Derek Morris
Daniel Tkaczuk
Rico Fata
Oleg Saprykin
Brent Krahn
Chuck Kobasew
Eric Nystrom
Dion Phaneuf
Kris Chucko
Matt Pelech
Leland Irving
Mikael Backlund
Greg Nemisz
Tim Erixon
I would argue that Stillman might be our best first rounder in the past 20 years. I still have high hopes for Nemisz and Erixon and maybe Irving. Backlund is never going to be more than a 3rd/2nd liner.
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