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Originally Posted by Et le But
The funny thing about all this is going into the season, everyone wanted the team to become more offensive orientated.
The way the team has been dismantled, our best hope moving forward would probably be to go back to being as defensive as possible - throw money at Suter and whatever role player defenders are out there and try to build a Preds-like team where the forwards are an afterthought. If Markov is really back, a top 6 of Suter, Subban, Gorges, Markov, Emelin and maybe Diaz is very nice actually. Plus unless we draft Yakupov our defensive prospects are closer to being ready than our forwards.
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Actually the Pred's foward corp is pretty underrated. Not alot of big point producer there but alot of good two-way guys who can play in all situations. Their scoring seems to be spread out all around their lineup too. They aren't putting all their eggs in the same basket and over relying a single line.
Our leading scorer would lead their team (by 1 pts but still) but their 10th would rank 5th on our team.
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Originally Posted by Et le But
This is why I don't understand why some people think we need to obsess over centres and neglect the wingers. If Cole or Gionta start to decline next year we will have the worst top 6 wingers in the NHL outside of maybe Columbus.
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Yeah, look at Plekanec this year. He's a good center but he can't do everything by himself. Our depth at center looks much better than our depth at wing.