[News] Flames to pick 6th in 2016 draft

[442scotty]

I hope we don't pick anyone from the Qubec league ... Lesser quality league imho

[TheOnlyBilko]

Originally Posted by JJ1532

They also have a history of taking the wrong player. See Yakupov over Murray and Draisaitl over Bennett.

Don't count on them not doing the same.

Draisaitl over Bennett is still "up in the air". You can't say they "took the wrong player" between those two yet. Leon Draisaitl is very good.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by Magnum PEI

Most of those players had career years and we weren't even close to making the playoffs.

lol.

Lucky for us they aren't the only 5 players on our team.

[Dime_On_Flames]

The notion that the Flames will be mediocre because they didn't win the lottery is absolutely ridiculous. Give your god damn heads a shake

[Heavy Jack]

Do you guys think a package of 6th + 27th-30th + 36th + A prospect like Kylington/Janko/Anderrson ect would get us in the top 3?

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Originally Posted by 442scotty

I hope we don't pick anyone from the Qubec league ... Lesser quality league imho

So inferior that I've never even heard of it!

[Flames Draft Watcher]

I think EDM should pick a dman but they may trade the pick or take a powerforward that they also need.

In VAN meanwhile we have Dim Jim Benning saying on radio that outside the top 4 players on their list they'd take a dman. So VAN is almost assured of taking a dman too unless the forward they like at #4 falls to them.

All this adds up to he Flames likely landing one of Tkachuk/Dubois, both of whom fits our needs great.

As for the OP and Nylander, wouldn't surprise me if Nylander isn't in our top 8, let alone top 6.

[the_only_turek_fan]

Would you give one of our seconds and #6 to Edmonton for #4?

[AC]

Originally Posted by Ashasx

change this devil system

Jonas Siegel ‏@jonassiegel 23m23 minutes ago
The Edmonton Oilers were one number off winning again. Oilers owned 5-6-8-14 combo.

A lot of teams were probably 1 number off.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Would you give one of our seconds and #6 to Edmonton for #4?

Why do the Oilers do that? They need help now, not a prospect further from making an impact.

[Wolfman]

Gross, of all teams to drop... It had to be us.

[TOfan]

Originally Posted by Hackey

Our one saving grace may be that Vancouver and Edmonton both need dman. If they were top 3 obviously wouldn't happen but fortunately they fell out of top 3. Things could work out for us yet again. I hope it happens.

Hope you're right, but you're wrong.

There is no resounding top tier defense man in this draft that the Canucks or oilers are going to make their selection on. The oilers are going to be looking for assets that will help them now, not in 2-3 years. The Canucks are on a down swing and have holes to plug everywhere. They need to take best player available.

This is a tricky one for the flames cause they are not going to get a guy at 6 who is going to help them next year (in all likelihood).

It's kind of a running in place pick. If they can use that to pick up Anderson, I would.

[Caged Great]

For me, if the top 5 picks are Matthews/Laine/Puljujarvi/Dubois/Tkachuk, then the player I want the most by far is Tyson Jost.

He is only 5-11, but he has a large amount of talent and may be underrated due to the fact that he plays in the BCHL. In the U18 he put up the most points and looks like he may be a quality first line talent. Heading to the UND next year, which is a great program.

[hockey.modern]

Let's look at the past 10 years at 6th overall.

2015: Pavel Zacha

2014: Jake Virtanen

2013: Sean Monahan

2012: Hampus Lindholm

2011: Mike Zibenajed

2010: Brett Connely

2009: OEL

2008: Nikita Filatov

2007: Sam Gagner

2006: Derrick Brassard

[Frequitude]

I'm thinking Edmonton actually trades #4 for a legit active NHL Dman. That would be a wise move for them. Thinking 4 ends up being someone picking a forward.

Then hopefully Vancouver takes a Dman, which would also be wise given where they are in their rebuild. Which still leaves one of Dubois or Tkachuk for us.

[Hackey]

Wonder if Edmonton would look to trade 4 to Islanders for a Hamonic package.

[SportsJunky]

The oil board seems to be in favour of trading their pick.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by iamca

The NHL draft lottery is really a joke and they are a fringe league in the US, compared to the NFL, Nascar, MLB, NBA, and College Football are all ranked ahead of the NHL...this is disappointing no matter who the Flames pick at number 6.

Bettman, Daly, and the other top league officials need to go...I am not happy.

The NBA uses the exact same lottery system for their top-3 that the NHL uses (with slightly different odds), and has been using it for more than 20 years.

[GranteedEV]

Originally Posted by Heavy Jack

We got Monahan at 6th which canceled out the Tkaczuk 6th overall pick now this next one should cancel out the Fata one.

Maybe Monahan cancelled out the Fata.
Tkachuk will now cancel out Tkaczuk?

[TOfan]

Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan

Would you give one of our seconds and #6 to Edmonton for #4?

If I were the oilers I would trade the pick for hamonic.