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Originally Posted by skudr248
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TBH, these list's are irrelevant in trying to determine what kind of future's any player we draft will have. You would know this if you have ever played tier 1 division sports. You have to look at work ethic, drive, psychological capacity to be able to handle the amount of pressure... I've seen time and time again, playing with a few guy's that could have made it fall short
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First of all, that's called an 'appeal to authority' and it's a logical fallacy. Secondly, posting those lists had nothing whatsoever to do with projecting a player's career and everything to do with asset management.
I believe it's clear that it is easier to acquire top-performing wingers outside of the draft than it is centres. Not that I'm saying it's easy, just that it is easier. Hell, we didn't draft Iginla, or Tanguay, or Cammalleri, or Huselius, or Glencross, or Bourque or any of our other wingers of any impact since ... really Theoren Fleury.
Were I sitting in the room I would point this out to management and advise them to draft a Centreman, not because I think that a particular centre is going to be substantially better than a particular winger, but because I think wingers can be found through trade and the free-agent market, centres are much harder to get that way.