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Originally Posted by Vulcan
I admit, scoring stats are the first thing I look at when evaluating a player but stats don't tell the whole story, especially for defencemen. There is a lot to say for non scoring defencemen as well as scoring defencemen, at least as compared to forwards, so when you find a big defenceman good at both defence and offence, you have someone special.
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Scoring doesn't tell it all, but draft history sort of tells enough about the pitfalls. There's like three D men in the league who went top 5 and are worth it. The rest just aren't, and a high ratio of the highly picked D are disappointments.
I agree with going center.