Comparing recently drafted Centers

[Vagrant]

This should make for an interesting thread. Given the lists of attributes and the list of players, pick one player that you believe has the best in that category. It's fairly simple. Here is the list of players to pick from. This list includes quite a few of the recently drafted Canadian born centers, and I was wondering which player excels in which areas of his game.

Jason Spezza
Eric Staal
Vincent Lecavalier
Joe Thornton
Patrick Marleau
Nathan Horton
David Legwand

Now, the attributes

Passing:
Stickhandling:
Defense:
Speed:
Puck Handling:
Wrist Shot:
Slap Shot:
Shot Power:
Shot Accuracy:
Hockey Sense:
Work Ethic:
Play Making:
Body Checking:
Stick Checking:
Back Checking:
Forechecking:
Attitude:

I know it's a pretty lengthy list, I just thought it would be pretty fun to rank some of these players in these regards to give people an insight. I'll post mine a little later if this gets any attention, i'm just curious as to what everyone else thinks.

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[MePutPuckInNet]

centers

What, the USA doesn't have any centers worthy of your list?

 

[CRAZY_FAN]

Passing:
Stickhandling:
Defense:
Speed:
Puck Handling:
Wrist Shot:
Slap Shot:
Shot Power:
Shot Accuracy:
Hockey Sense:Vincent Lecavalier
Work Ethic:
Play Making: Vincent Lecavalier
Body Checking:
Stick Checking:
Back Checking:
Forechecking:
Attitude:

 

[V for Voodoo]

What, the USA doesn't have any centers worthy of your list?

What do you call David Legwand?

 

[Ajacied]

Passing: Jason Spezza
Stickhandling: Jason Spezza
Defense: David Legwand
Speed: David Legwand/Patrick Marleau
Puck Handling: Joe Thornton
Wrist Shot: Patrick Marleau
Slap Shot: Joe Thornton
Shot Power: Joe Thornton
Shot Accuracy: Patrick Marleau
Hockey Sense: Jason Spezza
Work Ethic: Neither one has impressed me as a workhorse but for a rookie Nathan Horton maybe did
Play Making: Jason Spezza/Eric Staal
Body Checking: Joe Thornton
Stick Checking: Joe Thornton/Nathan Horton
Back Checking: David Legwand
Forechecking: Nathan Horton
Attitude: Nathan Horton

 

[Vagrant]

The list was more aimed at recently drafted centers that were taken in or around the top 5 in their respective drafts. Nationality just happens to be canadian that has the most players in it.

Passing: Spezza
Stickhandling: Thornton
Defense: Staal
Speed: Marleau
Puck Handling:Thornton
Wrist Shot: Spezza
Slap Shot: Thornton
Shot Power: Thornton
Shot Accuracy: Lecavalier
Hockey Sense: Staal
Work Ethic: Horton
Play Making: Spezza
Body Checking: Thornton
Stick Checking: Staal
Back Checking: Legwand
Forechecking: Horton
Attitude: Marleau

 

[Dadof5boys]

Passing: Jason Spezza
Stickhandling: Jason Spezza
Defense: David Legwand
Speed: David Legwand/Patrick Marleau
Puck Handling: Joe Thornton
Wrist Shot: Patrick Marleau
Slap Shot: Joe Thornton
Shot Power: Joe Thornton
Shot Accuracy: Patrick Marleau
Hockey Sense: Jason Spezza
Work Ethic: Neither one has impressed me as a workhorse but for a rookie Nathan Horton maybe did
Play Making: Jason Spezza/Eric Staal
Body Checking: Joe Thornton
Stick Checking: Joe Thornton/Nathan Horton
Back Checking: David Legwand
Forechecking: Nathan Horton
Attitude: Nathan Horton

what he said

 

[Jeffrey]

Passing: Lecavalier/Spezza
Stickhandling: Spezza
Defense: Legwand
Speed: Marleau
Puck Handling: Thornton
Wrist Shot: Lecavalier
Slap Shot: Thornton
Shot Power: Thornton
Shot Accuracy: Lecavalier
Hockey Sense: Spezza
Work Ethic: Staal
Play Making: Spezza
Body Checking: Thornton/Horton
Stick Checking: Thornton
Back Checking: Legwand
Forechecking: Marleau
Attitude: Staal

 

[PecaFan]

So Lecavalier and Marleau were recently drafted, and Henrik Sedin wasn't?

 

[thestonedkoala]

No respect for the squirt, Bouchard?

 

[Vagrant]

People, I don't understand some of these responses! If you don't like the list of players mentioned, simply don't respond. It's not as if i'm trying to be mean spirited here, it's just that the list of players listed are the ones i'd like to have information about and if there is another player you'd like to hype up/discuss, then i'm sure there are other threads that would easily accomidate that type of thing. I was simply discussing the players at hand. I wasn't exactly expecting fans of all 30 teams to make individual plugs for their favorite team prospect.

Thanks.

 

[Doomsday Device]

Passing: Thornton
Stickhandling: Spezza
Defense: Legwand
Speed: Marleau
Puck Handling: Thornton
Wrist Shot: Lecavalier
Slap Shot: Thornton
Shot Power: Horton
Shot Accuracy: Lecavalier
Hockey Sense: Spezza
Work Ethic: Horton
Play Making: Spezza
Body Checking: Thornton
Stick Checking: not sure
Back Checking: Legwand
Forechecking: Horton
Attitude: Horton

 

[Spiffy]

I haven't seen this guys often enough to know everyone in every field but here is my try:

Jason Spezza
Eric Staal
Vincent Lecavalier
Joe Thornton
Patrick Marleau
Nathan Horton
David Legwand

Now, the attributes

Passing: David Legwand (vision and passingwise looks like a new Weight)/Thornton
Stickhandling:Jason Spezza
Defense: Eric Staal/David Legwand
Speedatrick Patrick Marleau
Puck Handling:Joe Thornton
Wrist Shot:Vincent Lecavalier
Slap Shot:Joe Thornton
Shot Power:Joe Thornton
Shot Accuracyatrick Marleau
Hockey Sense: Jason Spezza/David Legwand
Work Ethic: Nathan Horton
Play Making: Jason Spezza
Body Checking: Joe Thornton
Stick Checking: Joe Thornton
Back Checking: David Legwand
Forechecking: Nathan Horton
Attitude: Nathan Horton