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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I keep ALMOST jumping on board, and then you say something completely off base.
There are more good young 21 year old centres available than PPG 22 year old wingers?
Maybe... but how many are available? Do you know why they aren't available? Because they are crucial and incredibly hard to come by. Top wingers get traded more often (and seem to be in more rumours) than top centres.
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Young top line centers are certainly a huge requirement, but just in the last few years, we've seen a decent amount of good centers get traded at a very young age.
Johansen
Seguin
O'Reilly
I can't think of many PPG wingers who were traded at a young age.
The list of quality U24 centers is actually pretty large. That doesn't take anything away from Monahan's ability, but there are more players that could potentially replace Monahan then there are guys who could replace Johnny (not saying all these guys could easily replace Monahan, but most are trending in the right direction to becoming a top line center)
McDavid
Eichel
Matthews
Barkov
Kuznetsov
Seguin
Johansen
Mackinnon
Draisaitl
Monahan
Galchenyuk
Scheifele
Reinhart
Zibanejad
Larkin
RNH
Rask
+ D Strome, Bennett, Nylander etc as guys coming up.
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And don't go saying we could just replace Monahan with Bennett. We don't even know if Bennett is any good yet.
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I never said that.
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I still can't figure out if you're just ridiculously overrating Gaudreau or criminally understating Monahan and the centre position in general. Honestly, it might be both, and that's a lot of things to be way off about.
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Wait, my opinion that Gaudreau is more valuable than Monahan means that I'm overrating Gaudreau and underrating Monahan and the centre position in general?
If Monahan is more valuable than Gaudreau, then why would he make less money on the open market?