Seems the only way to get a legit #1 centre is either to pay huge money to a UFA or to draft them. Even offering huge money doesn't always work as we saw with Richards. Besides the last 2 years it seems that we always took the defenseman or the 'character guy' rather than going for a centre. Hopefully that will change in the next few years but it's going to take a long time to unring that bell. It would be interesting to see an analysis of each teams #1 centre, I would guess that most were either drafted by that team or were a big money UFA.
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