i'd pick a center every time! he's not big, but Nuge is the best center we've had here since Doug Weight.
Talk about damning by faint praise.
And that, by the way, is one of the things that has really bugged me about Kevin Lowe's direction for this franchise. You'd think a guy who played most of his career with guys like Gretzky and Messier would understand the importance of the center ice postion, but Lowe just doesn't get it.
We were, briefly in 2006, pretty strong at center with Horcoff, Stoll, Peca, and Reasoner/Murray all being capable of playing against anybody, but even then none of those guys were legit offensive threats. Since then, we've had Horcoff along with various combinations of midgets, plugs, grinders, rookies, gimps, and failed experiments.
Even after 2006 when Lowe was running around with his checkbook chasing big-name players, none of the guys he pursued was a center. Unless you cound Mikhail Nylander as a big name player, and thank goodness we didn't succeed in signing that guy because he was washed up.
So yes, it's great that RNH looks to be developing into a top-line center. And if he gets there, it'll be awesome because we haven't really had one for over 12 years.