There are exceptions, but I would try to quantify a franchise center, in the current era, as one who has been a #1 center for a cup winner, and averaged aboved 1ppg, while close to ppg for career over 400gp.
Not everybody will agree.
Other factors come into play, like top level international competition, but that's where I stand.
Kopitar is a franchise. I don't even think he has peaked yet. Keep in mind that he is playing in a suffocating offensive system and still putting up numbers.
And btw, Thornton isn't a franchise center in my books.
Last edited by dying4acup; 01-27-2014 at 12:27 AM.
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