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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
What dropoff? How large is the dropoff? What are you basing this dropoff on? Have you seen any full games of any of the players in question?
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I'm not a scout so I'm not reading much into the limited amount of play that I've seen, but pretty much all of the experts that I'm aware of have Nichushkin rated as a top 4 or 5 talent in this draft and at least comparable to if not better than Barkov.
Lindholm and Monahan seem to be projected as good first liners, but not guys who are likely to ever become franchise players. We need a franchise player and aren't going to be competitive until Nichushkin's KHL contract ends anyway, so I think he'd be worth the wait if he's still on the board when we pick.