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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
You know...I'm not sure we ever had a true elite #1C that is seen as a top 5-10 center in the league.
Gilmour, Nilsson, and Nieuwendyk are probably the closest that we have had but I'm not sure any of those guys was a top 5-10 center in the league at the time they were in Calgary. Probably would have ranked right around the 8-15 range, but I'm not sure we ever had a true elite #1 center.
Kent Nilsson is the only Flames center to ever get hart trophy votes. (8th place in 1980-81, 12th in 83-84)
If you were to make a list of the top centers since 1980 when the Flames entered the league, does any Flames center make the top 10? Not a chance.
Top 20? Probably not.
Top 30? Maybe Gilmour or Nieuwendyk would get a look at that point.
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Marc Savard was pretty good. Button traded him for Ruslan Zainullian.
Then Savard put up 411 points in 365 games over the next 5 seasons.
Probably not too many centers outscored him during that stretch of 5 seasons. Crosby and Thornton, can't think of others...