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Originally Posted by kyuss275
Our center prospect pool has to be the worst in the NHL. Can't see the flames passing up a chance on a 1st line center. Granted our D pool is not great, but its still way better than our center pool.
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I'd be surprised if there wasn't teams with worst centre prospect depth. IMO we're actually deepest in centres and goalies at the moment.
Jankowski, Reinhart, Granlund, Arnold, Byron, DeBlouw
A few guys who could be top 6 centres, a few guys who could be checking centres. Several teams must be worse off at centre.
I don't see the D pool as being way better.
Wotherspoon, Sieloff, Culkin, Kulak, Breen, Ramage, Cundari, Lamb, Martin
Most of those guys look like 4-7 defensemen at best IMO. No potential top pairing guys at all.
Add Backlund to our centre group and we'd actually be looking very good if Jankowski evolves into a top line centre.
Add Brodie to our defensive group and we clearly still lack a couple top 3 defensemen.
I see defense as the bigger weakness but I think we can grab a great defenseman with our 2nd pick. Potential #1 centres don't usually fall outside the top 5-10 in most years so our best chance of getting one could be this year.
I'd love to trade up to grab MacKinnon/Barkov or stay where we are and grab Lindholm/Monahan. Then trade up or stay with the STL pick and grab a defenseman there, hopefully one with a lot of size.