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Originally Posted by Poe969
Say the Flames win the lottery and get the #3 pick, who would you take? Celebrini goes 1 and Demidov goes 2. Is 3 too early for Iggy Jr? Would you take Lindstrom? Levshunov? Dickenson? Silayev?
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In that scenario, I would love it if the flames tried to get another pick between 13 and 8 using a combination of other picks (Vancouver’s 1st + a couple of 2nd round picks) + either Coleman (50% retained) or Andersson. Then use the 3rd over all to get Lindstrom and the 8th-13th overall to get Iginla. That would be the ideal draft result IMO. Both are young players for their draft year and would likely need another season in Junior. They could end up playing on team Canada together even. And they would hopefully be making the flames around the same time.
Unless Conroy makes some big moves this summer, the flames have a decent chance of picking in the top five of 2025. There would be the potential for Lindstrom, Iginla and whoever they pick in 2025 to all make the team out of training camp in the 2025-2026 season. That would make for a pretty exciting season. Obviously that’s not the end of the rebuild… they would have to rebuild their defence through the draft.