Silly to suggest there's not a lot to get excited about with the Flames' prospects. Pipeline is stacked.
I'm curious to see where Scott Wheeler has the Flames. He usually publishes his team rankings starting in January. I suspect it's delayed because of the Olympics, and he'll start releasing the order next week.
His list is typically pretty fair, not weighing too much on analytics, or on some intangible bias like Pronman seems to have about prospects. But it does skew a little heavier towards earlier first round picks, which has dropped the Flames a little bit in the past.
I suspect the Flames will just crack the top 10 this year unless he graduates Parekh, which is unlikely as Parekh could still play some AHL games next year (and that's a key criteria for Wheeler).
He had Reschny and Potter ranked 15 and 16 going into last year's draft, so those two should boost the team. And it'll be interesting how he handles Wyttenbach, who he, like a lot of people, didn't rank in his 2025 pre-draft rankings.
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