Développement intéressant. Avez-vous des idées sur ce que cela signifie pour des gars comme Nazar/Moore qui sont des centres naturels ? Ensuite, pour les joueurs existants comme Dickinson et Guttman qui se développent, et ensuite pour les gars comme AA qui sont des C naturels ? (Sans oublier Tyler Johnson, il a joué un bon rôle d’aile pour nous.)
The Blackhawks will use Lukas Reichel as an NHL center moving forward, Davidson says. He’s been working on defense and faceoffs over the summer to prepare for that.
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I just saw this and was curious about the implications as well!
I’m not sure it really impacts Moore/Nazar quite yet, since we still have to see how Reichel pans out there, but Nazar at the very least can potentially switch over to wing in the top six (assuming he also pans out), as I believe he has spent time at RW in his junior career? Moore also may not develop all the offensive tools to be an amazing 2C anyways so having him as a very strong 3C could be a great boon to the depth down the road, if Reichel can hold down the 2C. For those two, we can at least kick that can down the road a season longer lol
What immediately came to mind with this is maybe they want a backup plan in case Bedard really does seem better suited on RW at the NHL level? I personally am not worried about him being a bonafide center, but it would be nice to know we can move him if absolutely necessary and not worry about the 1C role getting filled?
Could be overthinking it, but obviously at least 1-2 of those top four forwards will have to move over to wing at some point lol