We’re a week away from September and Calgary Flames general manager Brad Treliving has some business left to complete. In addition to contracts for restricted free agents Matthew Tkachuk and Andrew Mangiapane, 2019 first round selection Jakob Pelletier has yet to be signed.
There’s no real urgent to sign first round picks, but historically Treliving has signed his first rounders pretty quickly:
- Sam Bennett signed the week after he was drafted in 2014.
- Matthew Tkachuk signed a couple weeks after the 2016 NHL Draft.
- Juuso Valimaki signed about three weeks after the 2017 NHL Draft.