Six feet and up: Flames add lots of size in NHL Draft yyc
Second-round pick Etienne Morin, a defenceman who played junior with the Moncton Wildcats, is the shortest of the bunch but is still 6-foot, while third-round pick Aydar Suniev is 6-foot-2, fourth-rounder Jaden Lipinski is 6-foot-4, as is seventh-round pick Axel Hurtig. Russian goaltender Yegor Yegorov, selected in the sixth round, is 6-foot-3.
“You watch the Stanley Cup playoffs and not that size is everything, but you see the teams that are having success and winning and size was a big part of it,” said Flames GM Craig Conroy. “If we could get bigger, that’s something we targeted. Even the last couple years but it just happened to work this year that the big guys that we really liked were there and we were able to get them.
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