Your realistic top 3 picks?

[HitterD]

Originally Posted by FBI

Shouldn't we have like pick 48 or something, not 52?

The Flyers have the Flames 2nd rounder this year from the Frost/Farabee trade.

Calgary has the Avs pick in the 2nd round (from the Mangiapane trade via Washington) which will be 54

[Paulie Walnuts]

Ryabkin
Reschny
Kindel

[TheScorpion]

Kindel, Aitcheson, and Reschny.

[BarDown]

At 18:
Cole Reschny
Braeden Cootes
Bill Zonnon

[PepsiFree]

Reschny
Zonnon
Aitcheson

If we can only get 1 or 2 of the above, then Ryabkin is a high risk high reward pick that’s hard not to take.

[TheIronMaiden]

Unrealistically hopeful:

O'Brien
Reschny
Potter


The Flames would be well served drafting three centers.

[playmaker]

My preference is:
1. Center with very high ceiling, try to find your Point/Thomas/Johnston outside of top 10.
2. More defensive minded (Tanev/Bahl) type of dman
3. Big physical middle-six 2 way center (Lowry is a good example here)

1. Cole Reschny
2. Blake Fidddler
3. Mathew Gard

[Calgary4LIfe]

18 Zonnon
29-32 - Horcoff
2nd Rd: Ryabkin/Wang (both may be gone)



Zonnon has the size, skating and IQ, but probably needs the development time. I worry about "QMJHL" sometimes, but I think he will be end up an NHL'er.


Horcoff has the skating, size and IQ, but also the aggression that I think will make him effective as an NHL center. The big question for me is not if he makes it, but what line he plays on. Top line C? I doubt anyone picked this late will blossom into it, but he is just as good of a bet to do so as anyone else. More likely I see him as middle-six center, and a bit "Brady Tkachuk - lite" as his ceiling, a Jordan Greenway as his floor. That's a lot of ground. I think he has the tools to really become an impact player and a core player even if he doesn't produce at a high enough level in the NHL.


Ryabkin - He came in with a lot of hype, and had a disappointing season. Skill is there, but character may not be? Can this be fixed? If it can, you get a top 6 center - perhaps a top-line center. If it can't be, you bust. Flames are deep enough organizationally with middle-six and bottom-six players, but are missing blue-chip players at forward - especially centers. I would take a swing at him if he is still available.


Wang - I am adding Wang here simply because he may be a better pick than Ryabkin. Opposite story to Ryabkin - a late bloomer who is rising. Started playing hockey in China, but it wasn't until he was 12 that he started playing in Canada. He is a very toolsy kid. It is hard not to think of Bahl as a direct comparison. Having Bahl and Wang on the left side is a great compliment to Parekh, Brzustewicz and Mews on the right. Although he hasn't exactly been productive offensively, scouting reports do say that the seems to be developing into a 2-way defencemen, so maybe another similarity to Bahl there.

[traptor]

18th:
1. Reschny
2. Cootes
3. Bear

28th-32nd:

1.Ryabkin
2. Nesbitt
3. Gastrin/Nilson

[GullFoss]

Schaefer
Misa
O'Brien

[SeanCharles]

Reschny
Potter
Schmidt

[Fan69]

Originally Posted by GullFoss

Schaefer
Misa
O'Brien

Not a chance o’Brien makes it to 18. Keep it real people.

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan

Martin is likely gone before 18.

So realistically, at 18 I’d like Reschny / Cootes / Bear

I didn't realise Martin's stock went up that much, bummer.

I could live with one of those 3, Bear kind of worries me on two fronts, his injury and age.