I think Bennett is a helluva good prospect. I think we got the best player from this draft. But if these guys were in the same draft as last year's class, I don't see a way they could have got a sniff of the top six, maybe top 10. Vancouver's pick of Horvat was a little off the board, but I don't see either of Reinhart or Bennet supplanting the likes of MacKinnon, Barkov, Drouin, Lindholm, Monahan or Nichushkin. Ekblad isn't going to top Jones and is probably in tough against Nurse and Ristolainen. We should be exceptionally happy that we have two centers like Monahan and Bennett to build around. When you add in Jankowski, Granlund, Reinhart, Knight and Arnold, the center position is crazy deep in the future. Unless we are making a trade, the important thing is to focus on the talent we have in our system, not the talent that was drafted by other teams. Things are looking up because the talent that was drafted has continued to develop and not stall out like it has in years gone by or other teams in our province.
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