Prospect Info: 2019 Wild Development Camp

[Dr Jan Itor]

Centers are overrated and overpaid. Load up on the wings, and load up on the defense. Find good, responsible, reliable cost-efficient centers.

 

[2Pair]

Centers are overrated and overpaid. Load up on the wings, and load up on the defense. Find good, responsible, reliable cost-efficient centers.

Load up on talent whenever and wherever you can, but you're still going to have to find a quality center or two at some point.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Load up on talent whenever and wherever you can, but you're still going to have to find a quality center or two at some point.

Quality, yes. I'm just not sure it has to be the quality that a lot of Wild fans are pining for.

 

[2Pair]

Quality, yes. I'm just not sure it has to be the quality that a lot of Wild fans are pining for.

Ok, I see what you're saying. I agree with you. Right now the Wild have enough young assets that they should be able to be a player the next time a center comes available

 

[SupremeNachos]

Quality, yes. I'm just not sure it has to be the quality that a lot of Wild fans are pining for.

So an O'Reilly instead of a Crosby.

 

[nickschultzfan]

Centers are overrated? I disagree strongly.

Playoff Points by Top Centers for Cup Champions over Last Decade
O'Reilly (2019) - 23 points in 26 games (1st on team)

Kuznetsov (2018) - 32 points in 24 games (1st on team)
Backstrom (2018) - 23 points in 20 games (3rd on team behind Ovechkin)

Malkin (2017) - 28 points in 25 games (1st on team)
Crosby (2017) - 27 points in 24 games (2nd on team)

Crosby (2016) - 19 points in 24 games (2nd on team behind Kessel)
Malkin (2016) - 18 points in 23 games (3rd on team)

Toews (2015) - 21 points in 23 games (2nd on team behind Kane)

Kopitar (2014) - 26 points in 26 games (1st on team)

Toews (2013) - 14 points in 23 games (5th on team after Kane, Bickell, Hossa, and Sharp)

Kopitar (2012) - 20 points in 20 games (2nd after Brown)

Krejci (2011) - 23 points in 25 games (1st on team)
Bergeron (2011) - 20 points in 23 games (2nd on team)

Toews (2010) - 29 points in 22 games (1st on team)

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Meh. 4 out of 10 highest scoring years were wingers. If centers were so important, they'd be 8 or 9 out of 10.

 

[Minnesota]

So an O'Reilly instead of a Crosby.

What's 1st line center Warren Peters up to nowadays?

 

[BagHead]

What's 1st line center Warren Peters up to nowadays?

First line center on his beer league team, still holding it down.

 

[P10p]

First line center on his beer league team, still holding it down.

Guy had a 10+ year career as a professional hockey player with a good taste of the NHL. Trying to get kicks outta him on an online message board isn't a good look.

 

[BagHead]

Guy had a 10+ year career as a professional hockey player with a good taste of the NHL. Trying to get kicks outta him on an online message board isn't a good look.

I'm not intending to disrespect him as a player or a person, just making a joke about his abilities as "1st line center" and the Wild's usage of him as such. If anything, I'm making fun of the Wild, and they deserve it plenty for using him as a 1st line center. Nobody and nothing is above a good natured ribbing, including me.

 

[nt3005]

Guy had a 10+ year career as a professional hockey player with a good taste of the NHL. Trying to get kicks outta him on an online message board isn't a good look.

Warren is that you?

 

[a79krgm]

Only in a discussion board like this you can find a 2019 prospect camp thread degenerate into a Warren Peter discussion. So funny.

 

[Aceofspades]

Centers are overrated and overpaid. Load up on the wings, and load up on the defense. Find good, responsible, reliable cost-efficient centers.

Winning a Stanley Cup without at least one top tier center is a longshot.

 

[2Pair]

Winning a Stanley Cup without at least one top tier center is a longshot.

St. Louis just did it

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

St. Louis just did it

Whatever his career was before it, O'Reilly was definitely a top tier center last season. Unless "top tier" is supposed to mean the McDavid/Crosby/MacKinnon level or something.

 

[2Pair]

Whatever his career was before it, O'Reilly was definitely a top tier center last season. Unless "top tier" is supposed to mean the McDavid/Crosby/MacKinnon level or something.

IMO- "top tier" can't go too far past top 10 at the position. O'Reilly isn't that.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

IMO- "top tier" can't go too far past top 10 at the position. O'Reilly isn't that.

15th in center scoring + a Selke win. I think the defense is probably enough to make up the 3 point difference between he and Seguin, the 5 point difference between he and Eichel and Monahan. He was the 15th best center last season at absolute worst, and I think the more correct spot would be in the 10-12 range.

 

[Aceofspades]

St. Louis just did it

Ryan O'Reilly won the Conn Smythe.

 

[Aceofspades]

IMO- "top tier" can't go too far past top 10 at the position. O'Reilly isn't that.

Clearly there are more top tier centers than 10 in the league, for example O'Reillys stats are almost identical to Toews last season.
Dont know about the analytics but results speak for themselves in this case.

 

[thestonedkoala]

15th in center scoring + a Selke win. I think the defense is probably enough to make up the 3 point difference between he and Seguin, the 5 point difference between he and Eichel and Monahan. He was the 15th best center last season at absolute worst, and I think the more correct spot would be in the 10-12 range.

Not to mention 23 points in 26 games in the playoffs, 8 goals and 15 assists. Lead his team in points, 3rd in goals.