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Originally Posted by dammage79
Apparently Nichushkin has done so well in camp its getting some pundits on Tsn thinking he's going to make the nine teams that picked ahead of Dallas rue the day.
Not to gloat but I saw this coming. Still jazzed with monahan but if a superstar was what the fanbase needed to digest this rebuild, he's in Dallas..
I still think he will be the best player in this draft year. No offense to MacKinnon,Drouin or Monahan.
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The question marks around him were never about his talent. They are about his willingness to stick around if something goes wrong. He might be the next Kovalchuk...but he might also be the next Kovalchuk.
In the end, he may very well be a better player than Monahan. But Monahan seems like a guy who will be part of our team for a decade or more. Would Nichuskin stick around in a place like Calgary when UFA time came up? The Flames are a team who needed to make sure they got a player for the long-term...the risk was just too high with Nichuskin at this point in time. Our crappy drafting history put us in the position where we couldn't really take the risk.
But yeah, he may be a Calder winner this year.
But let's see who is where in 5-6 years before we decide to gloat.