The Calgary Flames definitely weren’t known as the best at drafting players during the early to mid 2000’s, which led to the rebuild that the organization is just coming out of. Luckily they’ve found some mid-late round gems in recent years, but here are ten guys they drafted who were immediately followed by long tenured or really good NHLers.
The rules for this article are that it only includes any players picked with the three picks immediately after a Flames selection and doesn’t include any first round whiffs as that would be too easy.
2000
Pick 116: Drafted G Levente Szuper, 0 NHL Games
Pick 118: Los Angeles Selects D Lubimir Visnovsky, 883 NHL Games
Visnovsky would play 14 seasons in the NHL split between Los Angeles, Edmonton, Anaheim, and the New York Islanders.