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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
What's curious is that Bennett, Monahan, Tkachuk is winning this despite short memories as the poll going into the 2013 draft had more posters picking Lindholm than Monahan in the poll for the Flames pick. There was a lot of talk of Tkachuk being possibly the 3rd overall prospect going into the draft while Monahan was never in top 5 talk for his draft. Maybe some voters don't understand that the vote is based on where they were in their draft years and not how good they are today or will be?
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Not all drafts are equal. Monahan was in a draft with MacKinnon, Jones, Barkov and Drouin - no shame in going 6th (and many of us had him ahead of Lindholm).
Tkachuk also ended up 6th, but I doubt there are many people anywhere who would suggest that Dubois and Juolevi are better prospects than Drouin, Barkov or Jones were considered at their time.
THere are no bad memories here that I can see - Monahan was in the top 3 discussion for part of the year, until Drouin and Barkov started to emerge.
Again, most people here are saying that Monahan and Tkachuk are close, and I think that's a pretty reasonable assessment.