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Originally Posted by gvitaly
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.
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I think Kadri is pretty overrated though. The reputation of being an elite two-way player is not really based on results.
Backlund is a fantastic third line center. Center isn't a weakness.