Unveiled: The Shocking NHL Centers Rankings That Could Reshape the Playoff Race
2. Vegas Golden Knights
Current quality: 97th percentile
Looking for: None
Assuming Vegas doesn’t pull anything truly wacky to clear space for anyone (cough, Mitch Marner, cough), it might have the most complete depth chart in the league. Rolling Jack Eichel, Tomas Hertl, William Karlsson and Nicolas Roy down the middle is a terrific place to start. Hertl is still effective and would be a first-liner on plenty of teams, and Karlsson remains a complete player.
Vegas’ issue here, if there is one, is that Eichel isn’t an all-world talent on par with the McDavids and Draisaitls of the world. It’s not that Eichel isn’t great in his own right, either; the bar is just that high — and this past postseason, when he had zero goals in a five-game loss to Edmonton, provides some proof.
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