The Calgary Flames approach the 2019 Draft with a couple of clear items on their wish list.



The first and most obvious is cap space. With pending raises to Matthew Tkachuk and Sam Bennett, as well as an urgent need to sign two netminders, Brad Treliving will need to clear up the cap just to keep the band together.



In addition, after a couple of years of borrowing from the future to build their current roster, the Calgary organization is relatively prospect and draft-pick poor. Treliving hasn’t selected in the second round since the 2016 draft and the club has had just two picks inside the top 50 over the last three drafts (Juuso Valimaki and Matthew Tkachuk). If nothing changes between now and June 21st, Calgary will again only have a single choice (26 overall) in the first 50 picks.



As such, the team is hungry to add some futures to their prospect cupboard.



Treliving may seek to fell two birds with one stone by dangling one of his two...