It’s prospect rankings season here at FlamesNation, friends, and we’re counting down the best and brightest of the Calgary Flames’ developmental system.

This season, of 39 eligible players our balloting saw 27 different players receive votes to be in the top 20. That means that in addition to the core top 20 group, there are seven others that deserve some bragging rights given how competitive (and challenging) this year’s voting was.

Here are the players that landed in 25th, 26th and 27th place, respectively, and why Flames fans should be excited about them.

Lane is a right shot forward that was selected by the Flames in the sixth round of the 2025 NHL Draft. He appeared on one ballot and finished 27th in our voting. Primarily a winger, he had a really interesting season in 2024-25, spending time in Canadian prep school hockey, the United States Hockey League and the Ontario Hockey League.

Listed at 6’1″ and 192 pounds, Lane had really solid numbers and captained his team, but was likely available late in the draft because not a ton of prep school draftees make it to the NHL. That said, Lane had a pretty good draft year and really impressed in a 13-game stint with the OHL’s Brampton Steelheads. He’s headed to play at Harvard University in the fall, and it’ll be interesting to see if he can adjust to the NCAA game the same way he did with the OHL this season.

Laing is a right shot forward that was selected by the Flames in the sixth round of the 2024 NHL Draft. He appeared on one ballot and finished 26th in our voting. Laing played a mix of centre and the wing in 2024-25, and split the season between the Western League’s Prince George Cougars and Saskatoon Blades.

Laing is listed at 6’6″ and 209 pounds, and his rather flat offensive production in his draft year is likely why he was available where the Flames got him. But he did a lot of good things in 2024-25: his goal output jumped from 11 to 25 and his point output from 25 to 48. He won around 49% of his face-offs between the Cougars and Blades, and seemed to be used more as a winger than can take face-offs than as a full-time centre.

Laing took a step forward in 2024-25. If he can take another one in 2025-26 and become a focal point of Saskatoon’s attack, perhaps there’s an NHL future for him.

Jamieson is a left shot defenceman that was selected by the Flames in the sixth round of the 2024 NHL Draft, taken in his second year of draft eligibility. He appeared on two ballots and finished 25th in our voting.

Promoted from alternate captain to captain of the WHL’s Everett Silvertips heading into the 2024-25 season, Jamieson was entrusted with being defensive partners with exceptional status 15-year-old Landon DuPont. The duo ended up having great chemistry, with Jamieson’s reliable defensive play allowing DuPont to gain confidence with the puck. DuPont ended up having a superb rookie year and Jamieson had crazy-good plus/minus, despite his own offensive numbers remaining pretty close to his prior season’s.

At worst, Jamieson seems to be a reliable two-way defender with size and smarts that projects as a complimentary defender. He’s off to the University of Denver in the fall, and we’ll see if he can grow his game and perhaps show that he could become more than that.

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