Buffalo, Anaheim and New Jersey can't pass us. The only team behind the Flames that can pass them now is Vancouver, and they'll have to keep the Flames to one out of a possible eight points in their 4 game set to finish the season, plus the Flames need to lose to Ottawa as well.
Best case for the draft is 5th last with Seattle included prior to the lottery.
With just a single point in the last 5 games though, the Flames will tie both Columbus and Detroit who are done, and the Flames have more wins already so they win the tie break.
San Jose, LA, Chicago, Ottawa and Arizona are all still passable too if the Flames decide to "Flames it up" and win a bunch of meaningless games at the end here.
My bet is they will go into the lottery with the 8th pick.
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