Nashville Predators Talk - 2024/2025 Season

[Viqsi]

I’m perfectly happy to say that Duchene wouldn’t be performing as well here as he is in Dallas but I also think it’s a bit ridiculous to say he can’t play C and O’Reilly is clearly better when Duchene is playing C and is leading one of the top teams in the league in points

When you have fantastically amazing wingers that can handle most of what a C does, you don't need someone who can carry the position there.

 

[Kat Predator]

When you have fantastically amazing wingers that can handle most of what a C does, you don't need someone who can carry the position there.

Wait. What? Are you saying there is such a thing as complementary skill sets?

Why that's ... genius!

 

[wmupreds]

Can we please not pretend that Duchene here would look anything like the Duchene on an absolutely loaded forward group that is Dallas?

WRT RoR... i believe it has been said several times around here that he is absolutely not an ideal 1C. Should be a 2C max but he is easily the best actual center currently with the team.

It's not so much "would Duchene look exactly the same here" as it is "should we be paying Duchene millions to still be a productive player elsewhere?"

I'm not convinced the intangibles (negative, supposedly, in Duchene's case) were so critical that he needed to be bought out. Certainly our current performance with a bunch of serial winners isn't making that case very persuasively.