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Old 03-07-2015, 11:34 AM   #276
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So crazy for a team to go 10 years looking for a center to play with Iginla, then have two in 13 months.
And that's exactly why sucking for a few years and drafting high is still the best strategy for building a winner. You can struggle for decades, trying to trade for one, or looking for the needle-in-a-haystack Getzlaf or Giroux later in the 1st round...but at the end of the day nothing comes close to just having high draft picks. There are no guarantees of course (and Bennett has yet to play an NHL game so we need to be cautious) but the formula for finding a #1 centre isn't necessarily complicated.

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