Flames select Joe Iginla No. 65 overall in 2026 NHL Draft
The Calgary Flames have selected forward Joe Iginla with the No. 65 overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.
Iginla, 17, collected 15 goals and 31 points in 59 WHL games split between the Edmonton Oil Kings and Vancouver Giants during the 2025-26 regular season. He is the son of Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Jarome Iginla and the younger brother of Utah Mammoth prospect Joe Iginla and PWHL Hamilton draft pick Jade Iginla.
The Flames originally acquired the No. 65 pick, the first selection in the third round, from the Vancouver Canucks as part of the Nikita Zadorov trade in 2023. Iginla was the No. 200-ranked North American skater by the NHL’s Central Scouting Services, but most outlets and analysts — including Daily Faceoff‘s Steven Ellis — did not include him in their 2026 draft rankings.
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The Oil Kings originally selected Iginla with the No. 12 overall pick in the 2023 WHL Prospects Draft. The 5’10”, 170-pound right wing made his debut with Edmonton in the 2023-24 season, collecting five points in his first five games, and scored nine goals and 16 points in 61 games with the Oil Kings the following year.
Midway through the 2025-26 season, the Oil Kings traded Iginla and a conditional 2028 third-round pick to the Giants in exchange for forward Aaron Obobaifo and a 2029 third-round pick. The Lake Country, B.C. product finished the season with four goals and 10 points in 22 games with the Giants.
A product of the RINK Hockey Academy program in Kelowna, Iginla will now reunite with his father in Calgary. Jarome Iginla currently serves as a special advisor to Flames GM Craig Conroy; he previously coached both of his sons at the RINK Academy.
The Mammoth originally selected Tij Iginla with the No. 6 overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Earlier this year, PWHL Hamilton selected Jade Iginla, a star at Brown University, with the No. 18 overall pick in that league’s annual draft. And, of course, Jarome Iginla scored 625 goals and 1,300 points during his own NHL career with the Flames, Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, and Los Angeles Kings.
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