Flames To Pick 18th In 2025 NHL Draft

Following the results of the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery, the Flames retained the 16th pick in the upcoming NHL Draft.

However, that pick will now be transferred to the Montreal Canadiens, officially completing an August 2022 trade that sent Sean Monahan to the Habs.

Calgary had a 0.5% chance of winning the lottery, which would've propelled them to the sixth-overall selection in the June sweepstakes. The conditional pick in the Montreal trade was Top-10 protected - meaning the Flames would've retained this selection had they won the lottery.

The Flames are already locked into the 18th-overall selection - a pick obtained from the New Jersey Devils as part of the Kevin Bahl-Jacob Markstrom swap last year - and will pick again, at some point in the first round, depending on how far the Florida Panthers advance in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. That first-round selection is the final piece of the 2022 summer blockbuster that saw Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar land in Calgary, in exchange for Matthew Tkachuk.