@Rowley Birkin posted this is the last thread, and it can't be replied to.
You keep regurgitating a variation of this same post. I've read it 100x before.
Moving forward - this team's 'top 9' centres will be some combination of :
-Thompson (1st round pick, just had a breakout season where he emerged as a legit '1C')
-Cozens (Top 10 pick)
-Krebs (1st round pick - would have been top 10 if it wasn't for injury)
-Mittlestadt (Top 10 pick)
It's possible these are our four centres but i like a defensive specialist in there somewhere.
All of these guys are 24 or under.
Why not just come out and say you want to use first round picks on centres every single year otherwise you hate it? Talent and or need be damned. Because that's what you are constantly arguing for.
The fact that you so passionately wanted Beniers over Power shows just how blinkered you are when it comes to this.
Yes, I keep bring up facts. Because they inform opinions and, for those that make them, decisions.
It wasn't long ago that the Sabres were set moving forward with RHD: Ristolainen, Bogosian, Montour, Miller, with Borgen on the way. That was fact as recent as spring of 2020, just two years ago. Once Miller leaves as a free agent, every player is gone. So, to think a team is ever good moving forward is folly.
I've posted here for a while now, not as long as you but long enough to set a fairly easy to discern trend.
2012: I wanted Filip Forsberg
2013: Elias Lindholm
2014: Reinhart, and then wanted a trade up with all the 2nd rounders to take Tuch
2015: Eichel, and before the trades, Colin White and Christian Fischer
2016: Sergachev, McAvoy, or Chychrun
2017: really wanted Makar to drop but thought Valimaki should've been the pick
2018: Dahlin
2019: wanted Turcotte to fall, and then wanted Zegras
2020: Lundell
2021: Beniers
Do I advocate for centers a lot? Yep. Because of the facts that I keep bringing up. But in the last 10 drafts, I also wanted a few wingers and some defenders too, for various reasons distinct to each draft.
As far as wanting Beniers over Power, that's such a non-point. In drafts where there's not a slam-dunk #1 overall, there are plenty of folks who advocate for other prospects. Advocating for the consensus #2 over the consensus #1 as being an issue is a stretch. Cory Pronman did it this week by putting Slafkovsky as his #1 prospect. Steve Kournianos at The Draft Analyst put Svechnikov over Dahlin, and Dahlin was a slam-dunk #1.
The alternate theory is that I look at historical trends, the Sabres' needs, and the current draft, and form an opinion. Which the history shows.