Quoting: CD282
This may be true, it depends on whether WPG feels that they have a more balanced team with another strong center vs too many top-6 wingers - or whether they have a young player (or UFA target) that can fill the gap on LW. I'm not inside Cheveldayoff's head like you seem to be, so I can't say what he's likely to do.
Sure he can elevate them, just not to 1st line scoring rates. If this is the measure of a 1C, then I'd say teams like WPG and MTL don't have a 1C and haven't for a very long time. Fortunately for them, it's not. It's just something you made up.
Wow you took a real defensive turn in attitude there, didn't know calling a guy a 50 point defensive center when taken away from star players was such a horrible thing.
Winnipeg has had Scheiffle who has played at top line levels for a few years, not always consistently and has been helped by Wheeler but still capable.
MTLs problems with center are well documented. Danault can play the role sufficiently but doesnt have the offense to be a true #1.
Isnt that exactly what a 1C does? Elevate other players around him to be top line players with him? A 1C is the most important player to any team, that's not something I'm making up, its fact. But go on ahead and think that RNH is a 1C, even though he hasnt really played center in 2 years, never got over 60 points before he played with McDavid and even before that couldnt get 60 points with Hall on his wing.
Like I said man, capable 2C, nothing more then that, and that's not a slight, still makes him a very good player but trying to make him out to be the guy that McDavid and Draistle depend on is laughable.