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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
This is so wrong.
This draft isn't as deep as last year's but the top end is similar if you exclude MacKinnon.
Stats obviously don't tell the whole story.
Ekblad is a much better player than Nurse. Same size, Ekblad is much better offensive and defensively (there's a reason one made the world jrs at 17 while the other was cut at 18).
Both Reinhart and Monahan were late birthdays - Reinhart had 105 pts in 60 games, played in the World Jrs, Monahan had 78 points in 58 games and didn't play on the World Jr team.
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I'd take all of Drouin Barkov and Jones before Reinhart easily. Lindholm and Monahan are in the same boat as Bennett and Reinhart. Monahan is looking like a future 70-80 point player, same as Reinhart, but Mono is a bigger player and size is the deciding factor for me, which is why I think he'd be first if this was Mono's draft year.
Also, stats don't tell the story as Ottawa was a garbage garbage team. Hard to rack up the points when your teammates suck. See Mono's assists this year on the Flames as an example.