GrandWazoo
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Is there?
McKinnon, McDavid, Draisaitl, Crosby, Barkov, Matthews, Eichel, Hughes, Point. Maybe Reinhart? After that you start falling in the Suzuki comparables.
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Is there?
McKinnon, McDavid, Draisaitl, Crosby, Barkov, Matthews, Eichel, Hughes, Point. Maybe Reinhart? After that you start falling in the Suzuki comparables.
It depends on who is your no. 2 center. If it’s Kirby Dach, yeah sure.
You said a few years ago that he was a low 60 point center and you were wrong about that too. Now you’ve moved the goalposts to “he’s not one of the best centers in the NHL” so I guess you’re one for two. Bravo.
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Sal_Butera
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Habsy
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Nobody claimed that strawman
Nobody claimed that strawman
By definition he is
Fact is there are 32 positions of #1 center in the NHL. That fact is indisputable. It's the only fact. What you are doing is opinion. Just because you deem his skill level too low doesn't change FACTS.
Now this is pure conjecture with zero basis of fact. This is solely based on your opinion of what a #1 center should be. You clearly don't know what a fact is.
In your opinion. Not fact.
Habsy
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Ok. Doesn't change the fact that he's a number one center.
Read above. Your definition of number one center is incorrect. Fact.
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou
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This, to me, is great news. No stupid extension. He either takes a low ball offer or goodbye.
I'd definitely prefer to have an elite center, but I'd say that Suzuki is in the same tier as Scheifele who the top center on the current top team in the league.
Capitals are sitting in second and their top C is Dylan Strome.
Stars at #3 have Matt Duchene as #1 C.
If you have a good enough team, you can be elite with a average #1 center.
I would take Scheifele over Nick
Hugo is telling the fans and Jake to FU
Thye dont care about cap percentages or how much its going up
That's fine... But my assertion was not that Nick is better. It's that they're the same tier. Neither are elite/top 5 or even 10 centers in the league.
You can absolutely be a serious Cup contender with a "just good" #1 center. You just need to be strong everywhere else.
So would he, I think . . . but the gap is not huge. That wasn’t his point, however.
lecoqsportif
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If Slafkovsky can figure it, the wings will be very strong.
Yup it worked with the Blues with ROR and Vegas with Jack
Not elite at that time but delivered elite on the playoffs
MS is borderline top10C for me
Needs a kick in the nuts and ass , big fuckup this year
If Demidov is as elite as he looks and Slaf becomes a good second line winger... Our forward group could be very solid.
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Slaf will be fine. And adding Demidov will help take some pressure off him.
Habsy
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If Demidov turns out to be first overall caliber it becomes a wash. Although I don't see who is head and shoulders above Slaf. Cooley is having a good season. He's about it.
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Exactly.
The year we drafted 1OA the consensus was that there were 3 possibilities: Slaf, Cooley or Wright. Slaf had a 50 point season last year. Cooley wasn't heard from until this season and Wright has spent most of his career up to now in the AHL.
If we were to re-draft today and the choice was one of those three, I'd still take Slaf.
I’d probably take Cooley.