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The World Junior Summer Showcase gets underway this Friday and the Calgary Flames will be very well represented.
Only four countries (Canada, USA, Sweden, and Finland) will participate in the mini-tournament but the Flames still have six prospects rostered.
Dillon Dube and Matthew Phillips will suit up for Canada, Linus Lindstrom will suit up for Sweden, Eetu Tuulola and Juuso Valimaki will suit up for Finland, and Adam Fox will play on one of the two rosters USA ices.
That the Flames have six prospects participating is encouraging and a sign of why GM Brad Treliving was willing to part with draft picks to add Travis Hamonic, Mike Smith and improve the team right now.
Dube, Phillips, Lindstrom, Tuulola, and Fox were all drafted in the 2016 class that looks *extremely* promising, and that's without factoring in they also selected a star in Matthew Tkachuk and one of hockey's better goaltending prospects in Tyler Parsons.
The Flames only had one pick (Valimaki) in the top 100 of this year's draft, and it shows, but it seems as if they drafted well enough last year to help make up for the lack of picks this year and moving forward.
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On Valimaki and his lofty goal of making the Flames out of camp
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