A good pickup, faceoffs are a huge area of need, and more defensively responsible centres take the heat off the defence.
It is much easier to covert a centre to wing, especially a checking/energy guy. I could see a bottom 6 like this:
Horak - Stajan - Stempniak
Bouma - Knight - McGrattan/Jackman
And of course, guys like Hanowski, Nemisz, Reinhart, Jones, Ferland, Aliu, Byron could factor in depending on the organization's plan for them and if they impress if part of the main training camp.
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