The National Hockey League's Central Scouting Service released its mid-season rankings today, showing their comparisons of North American and European skaters and goaltenders.
In the context of the Calgary Flames, now we can take a look at roughly where players are projected to go (by Central Scouting) and get a sense of what players might be available when the Flames head to the podium in late June in scenic Buffalo, New York.
The underlying assumptions here are that (a) the Flames get Nashville's fourth round pick for Max Reinhart, (b) the Flames give up their seventh round pick for Freddie Hamilton, and (c) the Central Scouting rankings are a reasonable approximation of what the Flames see the rankings as.