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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
IMO you don't because wing is the least important position. Eberle is an example for me. Puts up good numbers, gets his 6 million and now can the Oilers trade him for what they need, a young top 3 defenceman? Nope, defencemen are way more valuable than an averaged sized soft goal scoring winger. So Eberle may be really hard to trade and is now eating up a large percentage of EDM's cap.
Phil Kessel is one of the top goal scoring wingers in the league, made 8 million and had be dumped with salary retained to get him off the cap. They got an okay return but not as much as you'd get if he was a franchise centre or top 3 dman. Again average size elite goal scoring winger and he wasn't the solution in TOR.
It's just my hockey philosophy that goal scoring wingers are one of the least valuable assets of the elite assets and often end up giving you cap problems.
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Clayton Keller is a centre though. And if you draft him, your centres under 22 are Monahan, Bennett, Jankowski and Keller. You let three guys fight it out for #2C, put the guy that plays best with the #2C on the wing, and let the 3rd guy anchor your 3rd line.
When the Bruins won it all, they did it with Bergeron (6 ft 1" 195lb) and Krejci (6ft 186lb) as their top 2 centres.
Toews is 6 ft 2 listed at 201. Last year, their #2C was 6ft 200 lb Brad Richards.
Average sized human beings who are really good at hockey. That's the key.