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Originally Posted by ricardodw
don't want to be put in a position of talking down Monahan, BUT:
1) goals by a 21 year old count exactly the same as goals by a 24 year old.
2) Monahan really did not improve season over season 62 pts to 63 pts 31 goals to 27 goals. +8 to -6.
3) It is not unusual for a player to have a career year in his third year... I was the biggest Phanuef fan.... After his 2nd and 3rd years I thought that he would be a top 3-Dman in the league for the next 10 years and thought he was the Flames franchise player.
Turned out that his career year was his 3rd year , as a 22 year old.
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Schenn hadn't really done that much offensively until this year. Monahan has 2 60+ point seasons 3 years after being drafted. The Phaneuf comparison isn't the greatest either. He was highly sheltered in his first 3 years where Monahan only got sheltered as a rookie. He has been matched up against top pairings for the last 2 seasons and has been able to maintain a good scoring clip.
At the end of the day of the Flames only buy 2 UFA years off Monahan I would want the dollars to be at most $6M per. If they can get 8 years then they can go higher on the AAV and buy 4 UFA years