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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
The Lightning are the defending champs and retained their core.
The Flames lost their best playoff performer and haven't had much playoff success.
Not the same.
Duclair is a winger.
Bennett is a center.
Top two line centers don't grow on trees. You gotta draft them VERY high 99% of the time. Skilled wingers are a lot easier to acquire.
You cannot defend the Flames' usage of Sam Bennett. SIX years he was a Flame and never got a stretch of legitimate opportunity that his talent level demanded. The Flames blatantly screwed the pooch on what might have been their most valuable asset.
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Disagree.
Take a look at each teams top C. Drafting them very high is more like 40-50% of the time. Granted, some teams have two C’s drafted very high that would be considered elite, Draisaitl & Malkin for example.
Bergeron was a second round pick, so was Aho. Point was a third. ROR was acquired through a trade and was a second round pick prior to. Getzlaf was 19th OA, Kopitar 11th. Larkin was 17th. Zibinejad acquired through trade. Giroux 28th OA....you don’t need a top 3 pick to find a 1C. A lot of it has to do with trying to predict how an 18 year old is going to develop. It’s not an exact science.
Plenty of legitimate 1C’s picked outside of the top 5.