The Flames have long been devoid of right wingers. They’ve taken a couple of steps to try to rectify that – signing Troy Brouwer was one, acquiring Elias Lindholm and James Neal is probably a better route – but in between those moves, they won the bidding war for undrafted third-year NCAA right-shooting right winger Spencer Foo.
Foo chose the Flames in part because their lack of depth at the position gave him more of an opening than he might have had with another team. Now entering his second professional year, there may just be that spot available for the 24-year-old 6′, 190 lb.