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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
So did Bouwmeester. Take the center and pick defensemen later in the draft. You build teams around the center position and bolster the team with defensemen. We saw with Nashville that having two of the top defenseman in the league isn't enough to overcome lack of elte talent at forward and name a recent Stanley Cup winner that didn't have a true elite center.
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Is the centre (MacKinnon) a better player than Jones? I'd like a centre, but only if a centre is a better pick than any dman, winger, goalie out there. Pick the best player.
The Flames picked a centre (Tkachuk) over wingers (Hossa and Samsonov) in '97. Tkachuk had tough luck, but I don't think he was an elite player.