I get the whole taking a center thing. But at the end of the day, how many people are going to lose their marbles if they take Ekblad? Highly doubt many will. Kid is good. Darned good. Good enough to be mentioned for top pick in the draft. Good enough to possibly bump the top centers from the number one spot. The Flames have many holes in the roster from top to bottom but they've addressed the center issue pretty nicely the last couple of seasons. They've addressed it enough to take a potential pass on drafting a center this year to see what they have in the system and take that potential inpact D-man that the team also sorely needs.
There's absolutely nothing wrong at all with giving preference to Ekblad.
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