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Originally Posted by Spinach
And is Tkachuk really so much better than Nylander, Jost, Gauthier (or Brown/whoever) that we should add yet another LW when we've already got Gaudreau and a number of LW prospects, and virtually nothing at RW?
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I think people get a bit too hung up on LW/RW. I think most smart wingers can adapt to their off wing after a few games. Some even prefer it (see Dubois, Laine, Ovechkin, etc, etc). Colborne, Ferland, Frolik, Gaudreau and Hudler all played their off wing this wing and most of them did it quite successfully.
I think you take the best player available and Tkachuk is consistently rated top 5-6 by every scouting list. He seems to be consensus ahead of guys like Nylander, Jost and Gauthier. Let the coach worry about which winger he'll swap over to RW.