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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
This team needs franchise type players regardless of position. Center depth is important, but so is defence, goaltending and wings. I hope the best player available is a center when the Flames draft, but more importantly a guy that could potentially be a franchise-type player.
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Centres are more important than every other position on the ice. The Pittsburgh Penguins are decidedly average at every position except centre, James Neal, and Kris Letang. Yet they're a championship threat.
Wingers are nice luxuries. They're shiny toys. But if I had four $7 million centres, a $6 million defence man, a $3 million goalie, and a smart coach, tell me where I'm finishing every year.
Now give me eight guys that make more money than my highest paid centre, and then tell me why that's not the reason I have a 16% chance of making the playoffs a month before the trade deadline.