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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
I think Cammalleri will almost certainly not work out at center. Has there ever been a player that cut his teeth in the NHL on wing, that successfully transitioned to first line center? I think there's a good chance Stajan ends up playing first line center again.
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I imagine there has but a player I remember for sure, who moved from defence to centre and had great success as well, was this guy.
http://mapleleafslegends.blogspot.ca...red-kelly.html
Our own Paul Reinhart often played centre as well.
The thing with Cammallari is that he's small and most modern centres have some size as they often have to be the third defenceman, otherwise I think he'd be okay as he grew up at the centre position, so yeah I kind of agree with your conclusion and I wonder why we signed Stempniak. Maybe he was signed before we knew we could sign Hudler.