FrankMTL
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- Jan 6, 2005
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I keep going back to that Junior showcase tourny...
IMHO Poehling was the best centerman in the tourney- better than Pierre Luc Dubois, better than Logan Brown, better than Robert Thomas, better than Michael McLoed....
I think he's a top 6 C for sure. I think the question is can he be a cut above Danault and be a legit #1 C? I think he has a chance. I think his upside is some sort of Ryan Kesler/O'Reilly/Getzlaf hybrid. He's not quite as fast as Kesler, or quite as smart as O'Reilly, or quite as big as Getzlaf... but he's big, he's fast, he's smart, he competes hard, and he's a great distributor of the puck- plus he knows how to score ugly when he needs to.
The WJC will be great just to see where he's at compared to the players his age.