[Caged Great]

Looking at the Kings

2002 - Whole lot of Nothing - 1st (Grebeshkov)
2003 - 1st - Dustin Brown, couple minor players later on in Brian Boyle and Tambellini
2004 - 1st - Lauri Tukonen, whole lot of nothing after that
2005 - 1st - Kopitar, 3rd - Quick
2006 - 1sts, Bernier and Trevor Lewis
2007 - their first quality draft. Took Thomas Hickey in the 1st round, but also landed Wayne Simmonds, Alec Martinez, and Dwight King in the 2nd/4th rounds
2008 - 1st - Doughty + nothing else
2009 - 1st - Schenn. Also got Clifford, Deslauriers, and Jordan Nolan later on
2010 - 1st - Forbort, got Toffoli in the 2nd round

Like Chicago, they were mostly missing on their firsts until they lucked out with Kopitar, who only fell because he's Slovenian, and because they were terrible and got Doughty.

Calgary got Backlund in 2007, Bouma and Brodie in 2008, Ferland in 2010, Gaudreau in 2011 and Janko + Gillies + Kulak in 2012 all in the later rounds except Backlund and Janko. The rebuild only began in full once Iginla was traded in 2013 and the Flames already had a number of pieces in the system by then. Now Calgary is in the process of getting their high end talent, just like both Chicago, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh did back 2003-2010