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Originally Posted by delayedreflex
Scheifele/Aho/Hintz may not be elite, but I think they are legitimate 1st line centres that you could challenge for a cup with as long as you have the supporting cast. I would put Niklas Backstrom and Ryan O'Reilly as other clear #1 centres (at the time of their cup runs) but not elite who centred cup-winning teams reasonably recently.
I haven't watched Cozens enough to know if he could fall into that group, but my gut feel is that he's more of a potential 1B centre than a clear-cut #1 - which is honestly all Calgary has ever had in the past (only Nieuwendyk, Gilmour, and at times Monahan and Lindholm have met the threshold of #1 centre to me).
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That is the whole point. To say right now that Cozens doesn't have the potential to be a #1 center is way off. Do you need the top player in the league at center or a top 10-20 center? IMO you need at least 1 center that is in that range. After that why can't you have an elite Dman and Goalie to go with that top 15 or so center and build a contending team? IMO you can.
The Flames seem to love to draft 10-20 OV, we will always be loaded on the wing if we draft well and keep drafting in that range. Lots of elite centers go outside the top 10 picks but most go early.
Trading a good young winger and a pick for a good young center was worth it and a miss IMO by Conroy. Right now, when healthy this team has too many wingers in the top 9 anyways and Cozens in allows us to look at Kadri out.