In a salary cap world, a key to long-term organizational success has been finding ways to backfill your big-league roster with good, cheap, young players. While the Calgary Flames aren’t in an ideal situation quite yet, they’ve given themselves some inexpensive depth by way of their improved drafting and development.
The organization, at a glance
The Flames have 46 players currently under active contracts. Seventeen of those players were originally Flames draft picks – including 10 on the active roster. That doesn’t include another seven players that were recruited into the organization as amateurs and another three that were European pros that were brought to North America by the club.