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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
All this talk of needing two good centres but we may already be fairly good in that position with the emergence of Backlund who looks like he can be a great #2 centre.
Monahan, Backlund, Stajan with Knight, Jones, Street, Granlund, Arnold and Jankowski
Centre is actually pretty deep these days. Of course if a centre is the best player left you take him and worry about converting guys to the wing later.
But Ekblad is something we don't have any of. Looks like it'll take winning the lottery for us to get him.
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For me Ekblad is the prize of this draft. An educated guess would have the sabres (with deep defensive prospect base) leaning towards a center (or forward at least) and the oilers leaning toward Ekblad as well.
But that would be an EDUCATED guess.
I know that the hockey gods stopped the Canucks from winning a cup (and would have turned the cup to dust if a Canuck jersey wearing, diving, wining, finger biting player had ever touched it) and so I believe that the hockey gods will prevent the Oil from ever touching a #1 pick ever again.