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@HenkkaCurrent 1st line centers:
ANA: Getzlaf - 19th overall -
ARI: Stepan - 51st overall (like Niederbach)
BOS: 1a, Bergeron - 46 overall
BOS: 1b, Krejci - 63 overall
BUF: Eichel - 2nd overall
CGY: Monahan - 6th overall
CAR: Aho - 35th overall (like Veleno)
CHI: Toews - 3rd overall
COL: 1a, MacKinnon - 1st overall
COL: 1b, Kadri - 7th overall
CBJ: Dubois - 3rd overall
DAL: Seguin - 2nd overall
DET: Larkin - 14th overall
EDM: 1a, Draisaitl - 3rd overall
EDM: 1b, McDavid - 1st overall
FLO: Barkov - 2nd overall
LAK: Kopitar - 11th overall
MIN: Eriksson Ek - 20th overall
MTL: 1a Danault - 26th overall
MTL: 1b Suzuki - 13th overall
MTL: 1c Kotkaniemi - 3rd overall
NSH: Johansen - 4th overall
NJD: Hischier - 1st overall
NJD: Hughes - 1st overall
NYI: Barzal - 16th overall
NYR: Zibanejad - 6th overall
PHI: Couturier - 8th overall
PIT: 1a Crosby - 1st overall
PIT: 1b Malkin - 2nd overall
SJS: 1a Couture - 9th overall
SJS: 1b Hertl - 17th overall
STL: 1a ROR - 33rd overall
STL: 1b Schenn - 5th overall
TBL: 1a Point - 79th overall
TBL: 1b Cirelli - 73rd overall
TOR: 1a Matthews - 1st overall
TOR: 1b Tavares - 1st overall
VAN: 1a Horvat - 9th overall
VAN: 1b Pettersson - 5th overall
VGK: 1a Karlsson - 53rd overall
VGK: 1b Stastny - 44th overall (same 1b at Winnipeg)
WSH: 1a Bäckström - 4th overall
WSH: 1b Kuznetsov - 26th overall
WPG: Scheifele - 7th overall
Total of: 44 "1st line" centers.
- 16 Centers drafted at Top3 (36.4%)
- 11 Centers drafted at Top4-10 range (25.0%)
- 9 Centers drafted at Top11-30 range (20.5%)
- 8 Centers drafted outside of 1st round (18.2%)
Former Top10 drafted Centers from past drafts:
- Eric Staal (2002) - 1st line
- Gilbert Brule (2005) - bust
- Jordan Staal (2006) - 2nd line
- Derrick Brassard (2006) - 2nd line
- Kyle Turris (2007) - 2nd line
- Sam Gagner (2007) - 2nd line/bust (+800 games + 400 points, it's not that bad)
- Zach Hamill (2007) - bust
- Steven Stamkos (2008) - 1st line/winger
- Cody Hodgson (2008) - bust (injuries)
- Matt Duchene (2009) - 2nd line
- Alexander Burmistrov (2010) - bust
- Mikael Granlund (2010) - 2nd line/winger
- Ryan Nugent-Hopkins (2011) - 2nd line
- Ryan Strome (2011) - 2nd line
- Alex Galchenyuk (2012) - 2nd line/winger/bust
- Elias Lindholm (2013) - 2nd line
- Sam Reinhart (2014) 1st line/winger
- Sam Bennet (2014) - 3rd line
- Dylan Strome ("015) - 2nd line
- Pavel Zacha (2015) - 3rd line
- Tyson Jost (2016) - the jury is still out there
- Cody Glass (2017) - the jury is still out there
- Casey Mittelstadt (2017) - the jury is still out there
- Michael Rasmussen (2017) - the jury is still out there
Top10 drafted centers:
- 28x 1st line Centers (59.6%)
- 3x Top6 wingers (6.4%)
- 8x 2nd line centers (17.0%)
- 4x Bottom6 players (8.5%)
- 4 busts (8.5%)
Final conclusions:
- Top10 drafted centers mostly (59.6%) become 1st line centers, and they rarely become 2nd line centers.
- But it's also pretty good chance (38.7%) to find 1st line centers outside of Top10 picks.
Thanks for compiling this data.
I'd be interested to see the totals/%'s without some "current 1st Line Centers" who aren't actually true 1C's:
Krejci 2C 42pts/61gp
Stepan good 3C...28pts/71gp
Stastny great 3C, 38pts/71gp
Kadri 2C 36pts/51gp
Cirelli 2C, 44pts/68gp
Getzlaf 2C, 42pts/69gp
Danault 2C 47pts/71gp
Kotkaniemi current Minor leaguer. 8pts/36gp (-11, 2nd worst on team in 1/2 the games, AA is that you?)...that's not a typo, Eight pts/36gp...closer to being a 4C/future 3C than Top6C, much less 1C. Got sent down to AHL in 2nd yr, but not 1st.
Hischier 2C 36pts/58gp
Hughes 3C (lol) 21pts/61gp. Really wanna see Mo stomp the smirk off this kids face.
Suzuki low end 2C 41pts/71gp (team worst, -15)...his 1st yr. was decent & he may become a 1C, but isn't anywhere near that now.
RyJo career & season #'s are @2C production. '13-'15 were low end 1C production. People rag on Duchene (some of it warranted), but this guy seems to get a pass way more.