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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Maybe I'm being too harsh on Reinhart but I feel like you want your top line centres to be elite in some skillset (size/strength, skating, etc). He's the smartest player in the draft but I still wonder if his average skating and average size will limit his top end upside in the NHL.
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I'm not making this comparison AT ALL, but couldn't the above be said about Gretzky? I mean were any of his skills that imposing? It was his hockey IQ and vision that made him special.
Again, not making that comparison with Reinhart, but high hockey IQ is an extremely rare and valuable commodity.