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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Good post.
You're right, I don't have a ton of more recent examples. You build around centres for the most part. I just figured his part that it "never works" to build around a winger was wrong, but I had to scrape the bottom of the barrel for notable occurances proving otherwise.
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Yeah it`s pretty much a fact that a cup winner will have at least one good centre. Even the 2004 Flames had Conroy who was a perennial Selke candidate whose 82 game scoring pace would have had him in the top 40 of league scoring the same year. A modern talent comparable would be a guy like Ryan O`Rielly or Logan Couture, far from a nobody.
You don`t build around wingers nor goaltenders. They are supplementary pieces to your defensemen and centres. However you need all of the above to actually contend.
However that also doesn`t mean we are building "around" Monahan at present. We are building "around Giordano and Brodie" with the hope that Bennett and/or Monahan become worth building around before they plateau. Gaudreau is the perfect supplementary piece on the wing and ELliott is the perfect supplementary piece at Goal and Backlund is the near-perfect supplementary piece at 3rd line centre (you would like Backlund to be better at PK faceoffs though, that's about it) but our contention hopes rest upon Bennett or Monahan becoming worth building "around" the way Giordano and Brodie are.