FlamesNation · Dec 1, 2021
A brief history of successful Calgary Flames draft picks
Pals, on Monday night Calgary Flames forward Andrew Mangiapane played in his 200th National Hockey League game. In doing so, Mangiapane hit a threshold that prospect wonks have set to determine whether a draft pick is “successful” or not. (It’s admittedly an arbitrary bar to clear, but it’s basically 2.5 full NHL seasons and seems like a decent enough measure.)
Mangiapane became the 125th player to play 200 games for the Flames franchise and just the 52nd homegrown draft pick to play that much for the club. We decided to take a quick look at the other 51 of them, sorted by the general manager who drafted them.
Cliff Fletcher
1972: Jacques Richard
1973: Eric Vail, Ken Houston, Tom Lysiak