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Originally Posted by Jacks
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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The last six Stanley Cup winners were drafted. Without checking it, I would even say that even the runner up teams number one centers were...(NJ - Henrique?, Van - Sedin, Philly - Richards, Detroit - Zetterberg, Pittsburgh - Crosby, Ottawa - Spezza)