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Originally Posted by theslymonkey
Except he does. Just like Sid, Malkin, McD, Getzlaf... do for their wingers.
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That's exactly what I said, the first part of that sentence you quoted was sarcastic. He helps the wings by making average wingers better. I'd pay him $10-11 million a year looooong before I'd pay guys like Kane and JVR $6-7 million per year.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Great...so how does that help the depth on the wings? Which is what that conversation was about as he is a position that isnt really lacking.
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See above. Tavares helps our wingers out by making them better because he is so good. He has been doing it his whole career in New York.
Also, our center depth isn't that great at all. Monahan and Backlund are fine, but Backlund is more of a really good 3C and merely acceptable as a 2C. After those two we have a very unproven Jankowski, and failed C in Bennett and then nothing. Monahan gets hurt and all of a sudden our 1C is Backlund and our 2C is Jankowski? That's beyond weak.
Then you add Tavares.
Tavares (above average 1C)
Monahan (above average 2C)
Backlund (above average 3C)
Then you have lots of options for 4C and can play other extra C's on the wing. San Jose has been doing that for years now.