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Originally Posted by united
The Flames may (not will - just pure speculation) have some bias toward Verhoeff given Verhoeff lived with the Iginlas when attending RINK in Kelowna as a teamate of Joe and under head coach Jarome, and now lives with Cole Reschny in Grand Forks. They will certainly have a good read on his character in any event.
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Reminds me of the Seth Jones vs MacKinnon dilemma that Sakic was supposedly in. Was friends with Popeye, and he personally knew Seth Jones very well, but still picked MacKinnon.
It is still early, so anything can happen, but I would personally be surprised if McKenna isn't the #1 rated pick all year long, and if he is first on Calgary's list, and Calgary is picking first, I would assume it would be McKenna.
However, 25.5% chance of picking McKenna, so maybe the Flames next best choice would be Verhoeff, and it would indeed make for a nice story, that's for sure!!
FWIW, McKenna and Reshny have played together on the same line already, so there's an interesting tie-in as well.