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When it comes to the NHL Draft, the seventh round is a bit of a crapshoot. Are you finding anybody amazing? Well, nobody who’s amazing yet, but the hope is you can find somebody with potential that has otherwise been overlooked for whatever reason.
The Calgary Flames own their seventh-round pick, 208th overall, in the 2023 NHL Draft.
Here are the last five seventh-round selections for the Flames:
The Flames traded their 2019 seventh-round selection to Ottawa for Nick Shore. They acquired Carolina’s 2019 seventh-rounder in the Eddie Lack trade.
Zavgorodniy, Wolf and Solovyov all signed entry-level deals. Zavgorodniy terminated his deal and went back to Russia. Wolf has played in the NHL, albeit once. Solovyov has played a couple seasons in the AHL.
Sergeev is currently in the NCAA, while Littler will head there in another season. Sergeev has a strong chance to get an ELC based on his college performances thus far.
11 seventh-rounders have played NHL games, eight of them with the Flames.
Notables include Bobby Gould (1977), Stu Grimson (1985), Ladislav Kohn (1994) and David Moss (2001).
As we noted with other later round selections, it’s tough to call any seventh-rounder that doesn’t play NHL games a miss.
But it’s worth noting that Wolf was the first seventh-rounder to play a game for the Flames since David van der Gulik, their 2002 seventh-rounder. That’s a pretty big gap.
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