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Originally Posted by Muta
What if we went for Drouin, and then Frederick Gauthier with the St. Louis pick?
Elite winger, BIG center.
I'd be cool with that.
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I would definitely rather see the Flames coming out of the draft with an ELITE center above all else. We just had a decade and a half of having a team with an elite winger and a non-elite center and it was frustrating constantly praying for an elite center to show up.
MacKinnon + Zykov > Drouin + Gauthier
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Originally Posted by cannon7
On the Mackinnon vs. Drouin debate, does anyone else see the 30 point production difference between Drouin and Mackinnon as a red flag? Also, the fact that Drouin's points production has skyrocketed while Mackinnon's has remained relatively flat in the past couple years?
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Since MacKinnon was producing at a high pace before Drouin showed up, I would guess that Drouin's success as a high scoring winger is probably impacted by MacKinnon being a successful center. Drouin's production went up 20% when he started playing with MacKinnon. That could be as much an indication of MacKinnon's ability to make other's better as it is an indication of Drouin's growth as a scoring winger.