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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
Who would be better?
Edmonton - McDavid - Draisaitl
Vancouver - Pettersson - Miller
LA - Kopitar - Dubois
Vegas - Eichel - Stephenson
Colorado - MacKinnon - Johansen
Dallas - Hintz - Pavelski(RW) - Johnston
St Louis - Kyrou(RW) - Thomas - Hayes
Carolina - Aho - Necas(RW) - Kotkaniemi
New Jersey - Hughes - Hirschier
Rangers - Zibanajed -Trochek
Islanders - Barzal(RW)- Horvat - Nelson
Pittsburgh - Crosby - Malkin
Toronto - Matthews - Tavares
Tampa - Stamkos(RW)- Point - Cirelli
Florida - Barkov - Reinhart(RW) - Bennett
Buffalo - Thompson - Cozens
Ottawa - Stutzle - Giroux(RW) - Norris
So the Flames pretty strong center depth is roughly the 18th best center depth out of 32 teams.
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In a lot of those cases the other top C plays on the wing.
Draisaitl spends half of his TOI with McDavid.
Pavelski is a fixture with Robertson and Hintz.
Reinhart mostly played RW with Barkov while Bennett centered Tkachuk.
Stamkos was also often either on Point's or Cirelli's wing.
Tkachuk - Giroux - Stutzle was a line for most of the season.
You make a good point, but I have a hard time treating half those centers as centers. Technically they can play center, but if they play half or more of their time at wing can we actually consider them center depth?
Calgary is deep at center, and its centers almost never play with each other. Maybe that's something Calgary should try when trailing.