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Originally Posted by saillias
My position is that the Flames should develop the centers they draft in the 1st round into centers. They have an odd tendency for drafting centers, playing them at wing, then running into center depth issues, and trying to convert these former centers back years later. Now these players have been playing wing for years and struggle, and the Flames, always impatient, immediately stop the experiment and look for trades instead
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The problem is only a fraction of players listed as centres in junior actually project to be centres at the NHL level. That's why it's so often a debate about whether a guy is an NHL centre or not - even when you are talking about guys taken in the top 10. Teams often are drafting a centre already realizing that they are going to be wingers at the NHL level. It's not a Flames issue.