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A closer look at Josh Nodler

If you open up any FlamesNation article from about March 28th, 2013 to now, there’s a good chance that the Flames’ right wing struggles is mentioned at some point or another. It’s a wee bit of an ongoing issue.

Specific to drafting, the Flames have been notoriously poor with righted handed forwards. They drafted two in 2017 and both are already out of the organization. The last right handed forward that was drafted by the Flames and played a game for them was Bill Arnold (one game in 2015). Chuck Kobasew was the last Flames right handed draft pick who the Flames can actually claim to be a homegrown player, which is not all that impressive.