lecoqsportif
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Lehkonen could be moved.
Rumours, Innuendos and Flat out B.S.: 2021-22 Edition
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lecoqsportif
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Tiny sample size, but I found Suzuki to be just OK at the WJHC.
That said, it was a shitty team and coaching staff.
That said, it was a shitty team and coaching staff.
I think this time last year we had JDR, andrew Shaw p, Byron Froese playing center
GrandWazoo
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None taken, you are right if course, which doesn't prevent from giving my opinion.
it never stopped Krust from opining before
Never done that.
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I don't see RP putting up ROR numbers in this league . His style of play as a 200 foot 2 way player will be like ROR .
I will be happy as 40-50 point Bergeron lite player .
GrandWazoo
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I agree with that, but then again I think he'll be better than Danault and he's having quite a nice year.
Finally after 2 decades of looking for legit centers ...... it will be a strength for many years
That Weise trade is looking better and better each day
GrandWazoo
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Last time it was a strength we had Turgeon, Damphousse, Koivu down the middle, and we all know how that turned out, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
yeah amazing that since Churla took over as scout, we have drafted down the middle
3 Stanley cups?
GrandWazoo
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Huh??
GrandWazoo
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It's also amazing that since we started drafting centers, we know have centers in our pipeline. Crazy how that works.
worm
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have we though?
i honestly do not know
i use hockeydb to look at it but some that were drafted as centre they have at wing...eg. Leblanc
seems like we still draft mostly Dmen
C and D
we have drafted 4 wingers in the last 5 drafts (two of them in this last draft)
GrandWazoo
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Maybe if we get back to he start of our drought at center, starting after we drafted Koivu in 1993.
First I'm going to only consider meaningful rounds, 1-3.
Between 1994-1997, we only drafted Matt Higgins at center.
1998 we drafted both Chouinard and Ribeiro.
2001 - Plekanec (3rd round)
2003 - Urqhart, Lapierre
2004 - Chipchura (and Grabosvky 5th round)
2006 - Maxwell, White
2007 - Fortier
2009 - Naatinen
2012 - Galchenyuk** (not sure how much he was ever truly considered a center)
2013-2016 : Vedjemo, Bitten
Last 2 drafts : Poehling, Ikonen, Kotkaniemi, Olofsson, Ellis
1994-2002 (Pre Timmins) : 14 / 89, 15.7%, only 3 in the top 2 rounds
2003-2011 (Timmins pre MB) : 18 / 67, 27%, only 4 in the top 2 rounds
2012-2016 : 8 / 32, 25 %, only 1 in the top 2 rounds (Galchenyuk)
Last 2 drafts : 9 / 18 50%, 4 in the top 2 rounds
Crazy to think that Koivu and Plekanec are probably the 2 best centres we ever drafted.
Until Kotkaniemi hopefully.
GrandWazoo
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I'll put Carbonneau in that conversation but yes, it is crazy!
Cassels and Conroy were decent as well, with Tucker and Ribeiro rounding out the list of relevant centers. Add Gilchrist and Lapierre and that's pretty much the whole list of the NHL centers that we've drafted.