FerrisRox
"Wanna go, Prettyboy?"
You're calling Jamie Benn and Cogliano full time centers, but are challenging the idea that Gauthier or Nylander can play center?
First of all I quite obviously wasn't suggesting the names I was listing were "full time center." The first clue: I listed five centers. You don't have to be a hockey expert to know that no team utilizes five full time centers. Just a tip for you.
As for the names you object to...
Jamie Benn has taken over 600 face-offs for the Dallas Stars this season. He has an extensive history at the NHL level playing center. He is used at center often, including in these playoffs where he switches from the wing to center with Tyler Seguin.
Is this news to you? Did he secretly take 600 face-offs this year?
Cogliano is used on the wing for Dallas but also has tons of NHL experience up the middle. He's not very effective in the dot though, and has been better utilized on the wing after his trade from Edmonton.
But again, nobody - but you, of course - is talking about "full time centers." We're talking about depth on the bottom lines.
That's the actual conversation before you decided to come here and shift around the goalposts. The Maple Leafs roster, as given by the poster I was responding to, featured Fred Gauthier as the third line centre and Pierre Engvall as the fourth. Or you could take Nylander out of the top six for some reason and play him out of position as a center on the third line with some entry level or journeyman minimum salary wingers.
Which ever scenario you prefer, but either way, pretending it somehow is similar to what the Dallas Stars are rolling out their third and fourth lines is laughable.