We’ve just completed our annual Calgary Flames prospect rankings here at FlamesNation. Since August is typically the quietest month for hockey news, it’s a nice time to take stock of the prospect pool. Now that the exercise is over, we can navel-gaze a bit on how this year’s list stacks up with prior editions – and see what we can learn from them.
Rankings at a glance
Here are the past five summers worth of rankings:
| 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | |
| 1 | Juuso Valimaki | Juuso Valimaki | Tyler Parsons | Matthew Tkachuk | Sam Bennett |
| 2 | Dillon Dube | Rasmus Andersson | Rasmus Andersson | Hunter Shinkaruk | Jon Gillies |
| 3 | Jakob Pelletier | Andrew Mangiapane | Juuso Valimaki | Jon Gillies | Emile Poirier |
| 4 | Matthew Phillips | Dillon Dube | Adam Fox | Rasmus Andersson | Oliver Kylington |
| 5 | Emilio Pettersen | Oliver Kylington | Oliver Kylington | Oliver Kylington | Morgan Klimchuk |
| 6 | Filip Sveningsson | Spencer Foo | Mark Jankowski | Andrew Mangiapane | Rasmus Andersson |
| 7 | Dmitry Zavgorodniy | Matthew Phillips | Spencer Foo | Tyler Parsons | Brandon Hickey |
| 8 | Adam Ruzicka | Tyler Parsons | Dillon Dube | Adam Fox | Tyler Wotherspoon |
| 9 | Alexander Yelesin | Jon Gillies | Andrew Mangiapane | Daniel Pribyl | Bill Arnold |
| 10 | Martin Pospisil | Morgan Klimchuk | Morgan Klimchuk | Brandon Hickey | Mark Jankowski |
| 11 | Ilya Nikolayev | Glenn Gawdin | Jon Gillies | Mark Jankowski | Kenney Morrison |
| 12 | Tyler Parsons | Linus Lindstrom | Matthew Phillips | Brett Kulak | Andrew Mangiapane |
| 13 | Eetu Tuulola | Adam Ruzicka | Hunter Shinkaruk | Emile Poirier | Ryan Culkin |
| 14 | Dustin Wolf | D’Artagnan Joly | David Rittich | Dillon Dube | Kenny Agostino |
| 15 | Demetrios Koumontzis | Dmitry Zavgorodniy | Emile Poirier | Matthew Phillips | Hunter Smith |
| 16 | Artyom Zagidulin | Milos Roman | Adam Ruzicka | Brett Pollock | Mason McDonald |
| 17 | Carl-Johan Lerby | Filip Sveningsson | Eetu Tuulola | Mason McDonald | Brett Kulak |
| 18 | Linus Lindstrom | Emilio Pettersen | Daniel Pribyl | Morgan Klimchuk | Austin Carroll |
| 19 | Josh Nodler | Demetrios Koumontzis | Adam Ollas Mattsson | Linus Lindstrom | Garnet Hathaway |
| 20 | Lucas Feuk | Martin Pospisil | Ryan Lomberg | Ryan Culkin | Rushan Rafikov Things have come a long way since Bill Arnold was a Top 10 prospect in the organization. |