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Originally Posted by New Era
Don't want to blow a top 10 pick on a Daymond Langkow. Daymond Langkows are available through trade. Number one centers are not. If Monahan doesn't project as a top line player or do anything at an exceptional level, then stay the hell away from him.
This team needs top end talent. Lindholm has been identified as having exceptional talent. The big thing Monahan has going for him is he's big, Canadian and plays in the OHL/QMJHL scouting hub of Ottawa. The more I read and hear about this kid the more I believe he is an average player riding a wave of hype. I'm terrified the Flames draft him and end up with another Rob Niedermayer or (worse) an Eric Nystrom. I don't want guys that have potential to be good, I want guys that have potential to be great. I'm not getting the "great" potential vibe from Monahan.
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The exact same thing could be said about Lindholm. And Monahan has been identified as having exceptional skill.
Odd stance to take when pretty much every scouting report has these two guys as equals both with the same upside and same likelihood of achieving it. Obviously they have small differences in their games that can make someone like one over the other but suggesting that Monahan is a 2nd line center while Lindholm is an offensive dynamo is not just odd it is flat out wrong.