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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I am hopeful that Bennett breaks in as a centre, and plays his NHL career as a centre. But it really shortsighted to think that moving him to the wing at this stage of his young career will be in any way detrimental to his development. More than half the forwards who are drafted are drafted as centres (Tanguay was actually also drafted as a centre); huge numbers of them make the transition to the wing seamlessly. This is a non-issue.
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Yeah well the reason that Darryl wanted Tanguay to play centre is that he knew that Tanguay was originally a centre and the reason I brought it up. Sure a young centre can move over to the wing but if you leave him there, shifting him back to the more responsible centre position isn't always that easy. Some get shifted over to wing because they aren't good enough and some get shifted because there is no room at centre but that shouldn't be the case for Bennett. It's also one of the reasons Drouin was sent back to junior, to learn the centre position. It's better for him to play his position from the start like Monahan, as centres are more valuable.