On the National Hockey League calendar, August is the lousiest month of the year. October through June have meaningful hockey. July has free agency. September has training camp. August? Absolutely nothing.
So in order to stem off the gnawing feeling that is a month without hockey, we’ve made August our prospect rankings month here at FlamesNation.
The procedure is rather simple: we made a list of the Calder Trophy eligible players in the Calgary Flames system and each of us ranked them from 1 to 20. Based on everyone’s votes we created a consensus list, and from there we talked to our friends throughout the hockey world to learn a bit more about each player and their chances to move along to hockey’s highest level.