[Savvy27]

Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher

Going into the lottery, Treliving talked about ledges. He said that as the team saw it, there was a line after the top three. No surprise there. Matthews and the fantastic Finns really separated themselves from the pack.

"Then after six, I've got another line there," he said. "Then there's seven and there might be a little bit of a drop to eight."

"Once you get to four, things could fall different ways as different teams have different guys at No. 4," said Treliving.

While Jakob Chychrun (Sarnia, OHL) was the top ranked blueliner for much of the year, there seems to be some volatility with this player. Seems some teams don't regard him nearly as high as others like Olli Juolevi (London, OHL) and Mikhail Sergachev (Windsor, OHL) . Treliving said once you get into the defencemen, preferences seem to be all over the map.

"It's unique that if you talk to 10 people, you might get 10 different names in terms of a consensus top defenceman. They have different attributes, different traits. Once you get into that 6, 7, 8 range, there's going to be lots and lots of debate."

This might suggest that the Flames do have a defenceman in their 4-6 ledge.