The Flames seem to have a strong history of finding talent in later rounds, which shouldn’t be that surprising. The team has found TJ Brodie, Johnny Gaudreau, and Brett Kulak in the fourth round, and Andrew Mangiapane, Matthew Phillips, Eetu Tuulola, and D’Artagnan Joly in the sixth. That’s a wealth of realized and potential talent in rounds where most teams are throwing spaghetti at the wall and seeing what sticks.
But that magic somehow doesn’t extend to the fifth. In the past 10 years, the Flames have only found one NHL talent in the fifth round, Micheal Ferland (who had his own odd path to the NHL).