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Originally Posted by Vinny01
There is a part of me that wants Monahan to stay all year because he is our top building block moving forward and looked damn good in the pre-season. Having said that I also don't know if it is worth burning a year of his elc prior in year 1 of the rebuild. Look at what the Oilers did with their top picks and now they are paying 2 of them $6M this year and another $6M next year with nothing more than a 24 th place finish to show for. I have little to no doubt Monahan will be in line for $5M + after his ELC expires so going back to jr this year, getting traded to a contender, dominating the world juniors is best for both the team and player.
The flames have several young centers they can take a look at this year as well. Colborne, Knight, Reinhart, Horak, Granlund
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Agree fully. This is only year 1 of the rebuild. But if he can hangars perform above his age/expectations in his first 9 games then we might have a different story