njx9
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Put another way would you have wanted Anthony Mantha or what Riley Sheahan did a couple years ago.
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And hell... right now on your team. Do you want Dylan Larkin or David Pastrnak?
That's a 2C vs a 1W comparison. I'd probably take Pasta over D-Boss.
It's laughable that you're calling Sheahan or Larkin a 2C.
You get elite or star talent where you can get it. If the 1W has a chance at being a star and the 2C has no prayer (a la Sheahan in his draft year), you go with the wing. If it is remotely close in their ceilings, you go center.
There is a point at which need is subordinate to best available.
And the question was a 65 point winger, not a star or an elite winger. Sheahan was, again, NEVER a 2C in anything but name. It's absurd to suggest he was or was ever on track to be one.
At some point, you have to recognize that you're both stocked with Ws, and you excel at finding them late, and draft for actual need even if there's a *slight* drop in total production. Especially because your Ws are simply not tradeable for the Cs and Ds you've failed at drafting for the last two decades.