It was a close vote, but Darryl Sutter was selected as Best Coach in franchise history. Now who is our Best Draft Pick in history? As always highest rated comment wins

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1. Draft position and impact are both things to consider, I think this one will have a lot of different answers

2. Johnny Gaudreau

3. Theoren Fleury

4. Johnny Hockey

5. Al MacInnis – was selected 15th overall in 1981, was on the Flames team that won our only Stanley Cup and won the Conn Smythe Trophy that year as well. Played for the flames for 13 seasons.

6. i mean its early, but ill put in future consideration for Wolf

7. Theo fleury

8. Gotta be Nieuwendyk. 2nd round pick and arguably the only time the flames ever drafted a legitimate number 1 centre.

9. I gotta go with Johnny for that one

10. I think there are two options:

    1. Theoren Fleury who was drafted in the 8th round at 188th overall
    2. Johnny Gaudreau who was drafted in the 4th round at 104th overall

    Both represent star players that had long playing careers with the team even though they were later round draft picks that shouldn’t have resulted in stars.

11. Might be controversial

    Gaudreau or Fleury

    Both late picks that unfortunately end in tragedy in different ways

12. It’s gotta be Theo. 8th rounder

13. Tkachuk

14. 5-10 years from now it’ll be Wolf.

15. Fleury

16. Who is the best Undrafted player the Flames ever had?

17. Right now it’s Johnny but ask again in 5 years and it might be Wolf.

18. I’m going Johnny Hockey

    I’m going to be away in the backcountry when this thing gets to worst GM. And we better not fucking pick BT. He’s not the worst, not by a country mile.

19. 13

20. Technically it should be Brett Hull, right?

21. I’m going to nominate a bit of a deeper cut in Hakan Loob.

    9th round pick, consistent top player for the Flames, key to the cup win, elite name, one of the greatest Swedish Hockey players of all time, hads contributed as scout for the Flames as well.

    Not as long a career for the flames as someone like Gaurdreau or Fleury but still a consideration imo.

22. Al MacInnis. First round pick and was one of the best defenseman in the league for a long time. Led us to our only cup too

23. I’ll toss Mike Vernon’s name into the mix as well, only player to be drafted by the Flames to have his number retired

24. Sam Bennett. Won two cups.

    (Nobody said it had to be the Best Draft pick *for* Calgary).

25. Best draft pick? Conn Smythe winner Sam Bennett

26. It’s Tkachuk. 27 yo with 2 rings, and probably many to come. First ballot HoF’r. I don’t like it, I don’t like him, but I respect it.