Calgary Flames’ 2025 18th-overall pick Cole Reschny was voted to serve as captain for the University of North Dakota this season by the team. This makes
One of the most exciting prospects in the Calgary Flames system will be wearing a letter for one of college hockey’s best teams. On Wednesday, the University of North Dakota’s men’s hockey team announced its leadership group for the 2026-27 season.
In the past three years under Craig Conroy, the Calgary Flames have done more to build their prospect pool than the organization did in the last five years under Brad Treliving, with the franchise as a whole finally coming to accept the idea of a rebuild.
Folks, if you’ve been following either us or our colleagues at Daily Faceoff over the last little while, you’ve probably noticed that July and August were Prospects Season.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
After dropping two spots in the lottery, the Calgary Flames entered the 2026 NHL Draft in possession of the No. 6 overall pick. The Flames had picked in that spot on five previous occasions since relocating from Atlanta in 1980, and they’d selected a forward each time before.
There are a fair number of quality prospects around the NHL poised for some big years. One man that should be in the spotlight plenty this year is also the top forward on our list.
Welcome to The Win Column 2026 Calgary Flames Prospect Rankings. Ranked 3rd on our list is 2025 NHL Draft pick Cole Reschny. One of the most anticipated prospects since the Flames drafted him in 2025, Reschny was the first good centre prospect that they brought in during this rebuild.
WINDSOR, Ont. – And that’s that. The 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase is complete. No medals are awarded at the end of the event, but the Swedes will be happy after winning three straight games to close out the tournament.
Sweden and Canada skated away with comeback victories on the penultimate day of game action at the 2026 World Junior Summer Showcase in Windsor, Ontario.
The Calgary Flames will have a trio of their top prospects representing them with Hockey Canada at the upcoming World Junior Summer Showcase. On Friday,
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
Right-shot centres have been a desired addition for the Flames over the past couple of seasons. They have been desperately searching for a game-changing centre to round out the top six.
The Calgary Flames often draft Western Hockey League players. In 2025, they drafted Cole Reschny in the first round out of the Victoria Royals. The draft before that, they selected Andrew Basha in the second round, as well as both Eric Jamieson and Hunter Laing in the sixth round.
After falling just short of a national title in 2025-26, one of the Calgary Flames’ top prospects is headed back to college for a second crack at the NCAA championship.
Lately it seems like every day or so, there’s another Calgary Flames prospect earning some sort of accolade from the world of college hockey. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Collegiate Hockey Conference announced that University of North Dakota freshman Cole Reschny was named the conference’s Rookie of the Year.
Over the past few seasons, the Calgary Flames have made many, many draft picks. Several of those draft choices have turned into promising young players.
In the world of college hockey regular seasons are winding down and conferences are beginning to have their playoff tournaments – part of a process that feeds into the NCAA’s national tournament later in March and April.
It’s not often that we see a Calgary Flames first-round pick overshadowed by a fifth-round pick playing in the same league, but that’s kind of what’s happened with Cole Reschny and Ethan Wyttenbach this season.
The Calgary Flames went into the 2025 NHL Draft with a pretty clear aim. Entering the festivities low on centres as an organization, they selected Victoria Royals centre Cole Reschny at 18th overall.
Calgary Flames prospect and North Dakota Fighting Hawks centre Cole Reschny exited Saturday’s game against the Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs after being knocked hard into the boards late in the second period.
We are now a few days removed from what was an excellent showing by Calgary Flames prospects in Minnesota. While only Cole Reschny and Zayne Parekh represented the organization at the event, they rose to the occasion and each turned in a very successful tournament.
If you are a Calgary Flames fan, this year’s World Junior tournament offered an exciting glimpse into the future of the organization. What the Flames lacked in quantity of representation, they more than made up for in quality.
Welcome back to The Win Column 2025 Calgary Flames Prospects Rankings. Ranked second on our list is the first of the Flames’ two first-round picks in Cole Reschny.
At the 2025 NHL Draft, the Calgary Flames selected two players in the first round, 18th overall and 32nd. Both players are forwards with upside who should become solid contributors to the group in a few years.
Cole Reschny had a really busy 2024-25 season. He tried out for the Canadian national under-18 team at the end of July and made the roster for the Hlinka Gretzky Cup.