[PeteMoss]

Originally Posted by djsFlames

If Monahan ends up panning out at a solid, 2-way, 2nd line center for many years for us, what's wrong with that?

Not like we even have a legitimate 2-C who can produce like one. (Backlund's progressing, but he's more arguably a 3C on a good team at best right now). If he can win battles at both ends, win the majority of faceoffs he takes, and help the team while maybe putting up 20-30 goals, 60 points, though not franchise player numbers, but doing all the little things right like a Bergeron, then that's a solid piece that we've filled through this draft.

I don't see why people think this HAS to be our future #1, when we don't even have a consensus #2 yet, either. That number one guy may very well come next year, if Sean doesn't become that, and I believe there is still a very good chance of him doing so anyways.

I have a strong hunch that his surroundings hampered his ranking. When he was 16-17, by many opinions he was probably the second most highly regarded in that age group after MacKinnon to project to a top 2-3 pick. And despite a huge dropoff in talent and quality on his team between last year and this year, he still managed to rack up the same points in less games played, which says a lot.

Maybe after his 17 year old season he was highly regarded (i.e. coming into this year), but he was a late first rounder pick in the OHL... he wasn't an uber prospect as a 16 year old. (http://www.ontariohockeyleague.com/draft/fullDraft/2010)