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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Does anyone think that Treliving, given Edmonton’s draft picks, would have constructed as a bad a team?
If you draft middle of the pack every year, you get missed of the pack players. Unless you can strike gold (but lost of team have one of those miracle draftees), or if you are in a place to attract top UFAs.
I agree that a top C is a large part of the missing puzzle. It’s pretty hard to draft one, even harder to trade for one, and they are practically never available as a UFA. I don’t think Tavares goes UFA without Toronto hanging around.
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Yeah, this is exactly it.
Until we fill that position though, what are we doing? Just wasting seasons after seasons after seasons.
This team needs the foundational pieces in place.
Goaltending: Nailed it for the next half-decade.
Defence: Valimaki and Andersson are a good basis. If Hanifin is here long-term, I believe in that top-3.
Wingers: Solid.
Centre: Abysmal. We just don't have the top guy, and if you don't have that guy you aren't winning anything.
If we can't fix the centre position, everything else is irrelevant. Including the horrible head coach. Without that centre position fixed, without the leadership group fixed, even an elite coach won't win anything meaningful here.
It doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the coaching position though...