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Flames Draft 2026: A history of the 132nd overall pick
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Ryley Delaney
Jun 26, 2026, 13:00 EDTUpdated: Jun 26, 2026, 11:14 EDT
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Most players selected in the fifth-round don’t make the National Hockey League, much less make an impact.
As it stands, the 132nd overall pick is the Flames’ penultimate pick in the 2026 draft, the second time in franchise history they’ll select at the spot, barring a trade. It’s the first time they’ll select 132nd overall since moving to Calgary.
Let’s take a look at the history of the 132nd overall pick!

Jean Lamarre, 1972

The first 132nd overall selection belonged to the Atlanta Flames, who used the pick to draft forward Jean Lamarre from the Québec Remparts.
In the season before his draft year, the Montréal native scored six goals and 18 points in 26 games, with 54 penalty minutes. Then in the post-season, Lamarre added two assists in 14 games, as the Remparts won the Gilles-Courteau Trophy (then known as the President’s Cup).
They defeated the Shawinigan Bruins in five games, and it was the second President’s Cup ever awarded. Over the first seven years of the Cup’s existence, the Remparts went on to win five, and they also won the Memorial Cup in 1971.
The next season, Lamarre scored five goals and 29 points in 49 games, with 67 penalty minutes. Once again, the Remparts went on another deep run, with Lamarre scoring two goals and six points in 15 games. However, the Cornwall Royals (bring them back) defeated the Remparts in the finals. Lamarre seemingly retired following the 1971-72 season, never playing professional hockey.
Sidenote on the Royals, they’re the lone team to play in both the Québec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and Ontario Hockey League, and they’re now the present-day Sarnia Sting.

Other notable 132nd overall picks

One of the most notable players picked 132nd overall happens to be from Sarnia and played for the Royals. Mike Stapleton (1984) played 697 NHL games, scoring 71 goals and 182 points. That’s the third-most games, goals, and assists for players selected in this spot.
Last season, the Flames traded away prospect Jacob Battaglia, who has no relation to Bates Battaglia, the 132nd overall pick in the 1994 draft. Battaglia’s 198 points are the third-most among players selected 132nd, as are his 80 goals. 
One individual Battaglia is related to is infamous Chicago Mobster Sam Battaglia, who passed away a year before Bates was born. Selected one pick after Battaglia in the 1994 draft is Daniel Alfredsson, so there is a chance the Flames find a Hall of Fame-calibre talent.
Another player selected 132nd with a relation to another notable person is Oscar Hedman (2004). Hedman never played a game in the NHL, and in fact spent his entire career in Sweden. The same cannot be said about his brother, Victor. The Tampa Bay Lightning’s captain is a likely Hall of Famer, winning the Norris Trophy in 2017-18 and the Conn Smythe Trophy in the 2020 post-season. Hedman has won two Stanley Cups with the Lightning.
That said, two players selected 132nd overall have their name on the Cup. The first is also the lone All-Star, Andy Moog. Drafted 132nd overall by the Oilers in 1980, Moog won three Cups with the fellow Albertan team before being traded to the Boston Bruins before the 1988 trade deadline.
The other player selected 132nd overall with his name on the Cup is Darren Helm. Selected by the Detroit Red Wings in 2005, Helm played 18 games in the 2008 post-season,  scoring two goals and four points as the Red Wings played the Cup.
Weirdly, Helm played just 23 regular season games between 2007-08 and 2008-09, but 41 playoff games. Helm remained with the Wins until 2020-21, signing with the Colorado Avalanche during the 2021 off-season. The speedy forward went on to win the Cup with them in 2022.
Kyle Quincey is another notable player selected 132nd overall, also by the Red Wings but two years before Helm. Quincey played six games during the 2007-08 season, but didn’t appear in a post-season game, meaning his name isn’t on the Cup.
On top of two Stanley Cup champions, there are more fascinating 132nd overall picks. Ukraine has seen 30 players drafted, with one of the earliest players drafted from that country being Alexander Alexeev (1992). He never played in the NHL, but he was the sixth Ukrainian drafted in league history. The original Winnipeg Jets actually picked two Ukrainians that draft.
Ukraine split away from the USSR in 1992, way out of the scope of this article. But interestingly enough, the first Russian to ever score in the NHL was selected 132nd. Victor Netchaev was drafted 132nd by the Los Angeles Kings in 1982, and already being in North America, he made his NHL debut the following season. He played just three games, the first Russian to ever play an NHL game, and also scored.
There are four other players selected 132nd overall with 100 or more NHL games played. Gabriel Bourque (2009) played 413 games with 40 goals and 103 points. Ron Wilson (1975) played 177 games with 26 goals and 93 points, also having a long coaching career following the end of his playing career.
Chris Terry, drafted in 2007, played 152 NHL games with 22 goals and 38 points, and was active in 2025-26. As was the 132nd overall selection in 2010, Tim Heed.
The 132nd overall pick isn’t one that has developed a lot of notable names since 1972, but that could change. Eric Pohlkamp (2023) won the National Championship alongside Flames prospect Eric Jamieson earlier this year. Not just that, but he finished as a finalist for the Hobey Baker, and made his professional debut with the Sharks’ American Hockey League team in the playoffs, picking up an assist in his lone game.
Pohlkamp is one of 17 players to have played a game in 2025-26. Terry was drafted in 2007, one of the oldest active players of any history of a pick we’ve looked at, but the player selected 132nd overall in 2006, Niko Hovinen, is still active as well.
No player selected 132nd overall played in the NHL last season. Heed (2010) played in Sweden, as did Joonas Lyytinen (2014), Jacob Peterson (2017), and Lauri Pajuniemi (2018).
There were several players selected 132nd overall to play in Russia last season, they are: Yegor Rykov (2016), Alex Cotton (2020), and Nikolai Makarov (2021). Additionally, Niklas Lundström (2011) played in Denmark, as did Terrance Amorosa (2013). While Michael Clarke (2012) played in Germany.
Both Trevor Janicke (2019) and Frederic Brunet (2022) played in North America, in the ECHL and AHL respectively. Brunet played a game with the Boston Bruins in 2024-25, and played for the Providence Bruins last season. Also in the Boston area is netminder Louka Cloutier (2024), who was the starting netminder for Boston College last season.
The most recent pick, Max Westergard, was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers last season. He split his season between the Swedish Elite League, the u20 league, and the second-tier league. Funnily enough, he was teammates with Peterson on Frölunda HC, so that’s fun.

What a difference one spot makes

Because the Vegas Golden Knights were forced to forfeit their second-round pick, the Flames’ 132nd overall pick will actually be the 131st selection.
There aren’t a whole lot of notable players selected 131st overall, but it has produced two All-Stars, both from Sweden. Roland Eriksson was drafted in 1974, and John Klingberg was drafted in 2010.
Ryley Delaney is a Nation Network writer for FlamesNation, Oilersnation, and Blue Jays Nation. She can be followed on Twitter @Ryley__Delaney.
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