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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Agreed. Guess it should be time to do a pre-lottery ranking of my own for my own perception of Flames needs/philosophy. Don't think I've done one since the U18s.
1. Matthews (C)
2. Laine (W)
3. Puljujarvi(RW)
T4. Tkachuk (LW)
T4. Dubois (C/W)
T6. Chychrun (D)
T6. Juolevi (D)
T6. Sergachev (D)
9. Brown (C)
10. Nylander (W)
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I'd go out on a limb here and say the Flames list looks a lot different from this. I think the Flames will be a lot higher on certain players that meet the size and truculence needs of the team. I don't see any more than one of the defensemen being on the Flames top eight list. They just don't have anything that differentiates them from guys we have in our system, and that has to come into play. When you hear both Treliving and Burke say they have no fear of trading down, that tells me their top eight includes a few players not on this list. When they say they are willing to make a deal to trade down that gets them a player closer to contributing it also says they have specific needs they are trying to address. If the Flames don't get into the top three I think the Flames could take a player that some may be surprised with and probably won't be on this list.