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Originally Posted by Poe969
Not like Dickinson or Silayev, or even Levshunov. Those 3 look to be game changing D and there's still a couple more.
Celebrini and Lindstrom look to be the best C options, if you can't get one of those 2, I'd take one of those Dmen.
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Outside of first overall it has been risky business to use a top 10 pick on centers refently. Barrett Hayton, Kotkaniemi, Patrick, Glass, Anderson, Rasmussen, Dach, Turcotte. The first overalls have hit at the center ice position but it sure seems like you are rolling the dice picking a franchise center that high.
In those same drafts Hughes, Dobson, Makar, Heiskanen, Seider were picked in the top 10 but not first overall. 5 franchise dman picked outside the first overall pick. None of the centers picked outside of first overall compared with any of those dmen.
Could be spurious correlation but it seems like it is very difficult to find a true stud number one dman unless you draft them high but there are talented centers you can get elsewhere in the draft.