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Originally Posted by debil
not gonna be popular with this but i'm used to it. Sean does not have enough talent to be the franchise player. i project him as second line center or bottom 10 first line center. Sean is lacking elite playmaking ability, these kind of skills either are there and you see them immediately or not. 12 assists makes it pretty clear. Second his speed and dynamics is still weak and i see no improvement which is a big red flag. Now i'm not saying he is going to be a bust, i'm just saying monahan is not your new franchise player replacing iginla.
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Not meaning to pile on but I too don't really agree with everything your saying. For one I think Sean's playmaking has had flashes this season and you can see his vision and hockey IQ are incredibly high, and that's a great thing for a rookie season. Second if you thought his speed and dynamics we're going to increase substantially as his body goes through the toughest season he's been through then I think your a bit off base. That's something to work on heavily in the offseason, now if he comes back next year and we see no improvement then yeah you probably have a point.
Now you could be completely right and better at reading players than me and that's fair. As for the next franchise player tag, I feel like this team is building more of a franchise group, rather than a single player.