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Originally Posted by Da_Chief
Ehlers is listed 6' on some sites. He is not a small player but extremely skilled. Questions being asked about him are the same question that were asked about Drouin playing along Mackinnon last year.
I'd rather have a bit undersizes skilled fast player then take a flyer on a bigger player with much less skill. It's become a bit more skilled game in recent years.
Like I proposed earlier, line of of Ehlers-Monahan-Poirier would cause some serious issue for the opposition. Try to contain the wingers on that line and have the deceptive Monahan beat you.
Once again. EHLERS Bandwagon, here we go.
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He's listed at 5'11.5 162. That's like Johnny Gaudreau weight. He may not be as short as Gaudreau but not every body type can easily add 30 lbs of muscle and he likely needs to add around that much. So yes, for now he should be considered a small/weak player based on his size. Not really a fit for us since we're relatively deep in small skilled guys and lack big skilled guys. There's enough big skilled guys this draft that I don't see us taking Ehlers or Nylande over them. I will be hoping somebody ahead of us takes one of them.