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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
When we signed Cervenka and subsequently let Jokinen walk I argued until I was blue in the face telling everyone that Cervenka was a winger, even showed numbers that in his entire KHL career Cervenka took less draws than an average 4th line center does in 1 year in the NHL, but because he was introduced to the media as a centermen no one would listen to me and somehow thought as a 27 year old rookie that he would actually replace Jokinen.
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Seems like scouts failed to do their job:
"Our scouts in Europe very early on in the season had identified Roman Cervenka as someone who they felt very strongly could come and play within in our top-six forwards, felt he was a player who could be a top-two line centre in the National Hockey League."
http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=394876