[Caged Great]

What the Flames do with the pick will largely be determined on what happens on the floor that day.

You just never know what other teams may do. We might see someone jump up from the mid teens in the rankings into the top 10, sort of like how Scheifele was rated in the 12-18 range before the draft and getting picked at 7 by the Jets. A guy like Guryanov might go way earlier than many are expecting, then you have a wild card in Samsonov although I don't think he'll go in the top 15.

We could see one of the second tier guys fall unexpectedly. Or everything could go as expected with the top 13 players all getting picked leaving us at the beginning part of the third tier of players. Lots of different scenarios for sure. As long as the Flames select a forward in the first round, they will be good. They are all better options in terms of high end potential than the d, whether it's Svechnikov, White, Konecny, Merkley, Boeser etc. it doesn't matter much.