The 2019 NHL Draft is looming and teams are trying to square off their unfinished business from prior drafts. The Calgary Flames have until June 1 to sign 2017 picks Zach Fischer and D’Artagnan Joly. Based on the team’s patterns of behaviour, it doesn’t seem likely that either player will be signed.
The Flames’ history with signing their own picks is arguably the best indicator of how general manager Brad Treliving and his staff tend to operate in this area.
They don’t sign everyone
| Signed | Not Signed | |
| 2012 | Patrick Sieloff Brett Kulak Ryan Culkin Jon Gillies Mark Jankowski | Coda Gordon Matthew Deblouw |
| 2013 | Sean Monahan Emile Poirier Morgan Klimchuk Keegan Kanzig | Eric Roy Tim Harrison John Gilmour Rushan Rafikov |
| 2014 | Sam Bennett Mason McDonald Hunter Smith Austin Carroll | Brandon Hickey** Adam Ollas Mattsson |
| 2015 | Rasmus Andersson Oliver Kylington Andrew Mangiapane | Pavel Karnaukhov Riley Bruce |
| 2016 | Matthew Tkachuk Tyler Parsons Dillon Dube Matthew Phillips | Linus Lindstrom* Mitchell Mattson* Eetu Tuulola* Adam Fox** Stepan Falkovsky |
| 2017 | Juuso Valimaki Adam Ruzicka | Zach Fischer D’Artagnan Joly Filip Sveningsson* |
| 2018 | Dmitry Zavgorodniy Martin Pospisil | Demetrious Koumontzis* Milos Roman* Emilio Pettersen* Before we dig in, a quick note: players marked with a single asterisk the Flames still hold the rights to – they’re mostly Europeans and college players – while those marked with two were traded. |