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Originally Posted by driveway
While it is true that Best Player Available is a wise drafting strategy, it seems pretty inescapably clear that it's almost impossible to acquire a top-scoring center without a top-ten draft pick, whereas top-scoring wingers are more readily available throughout the draft or via trade.
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You also need twice as many.
And I think these list fall to pieces regardless of how they are spun once they start comparing Dupuis to someone like Toews. Everyone should know that getting a young impact player of any position is difficult.
Now as a Flames fan, I can assure you I realize it's not a walk in the park grabbing a top line center. But who cares what position a player plays if they don't end up being good. It's still a million times easier building around a top line winger than a 3rd line center. If at pick 6 the scouting staff believes that a certain player will be a bigger impact player than the rest of the available draftees, that's who they need to grab regardless of position. Unless it's a goalie, if it is #### that.
And again, just how this draft looks to be shaping up I wouldn't be surprised to see them come away with one of those centers anyways, but hopefully it's only because they are the BPA.