Monahan should be the most available of the core guys. Gaudreau is an excellent 1LW, Gio and Brodie are (usually) excellent top pairing guys. Dougie will be.
Monahan is not an elite #1C, and without significantly improving, I don't think he can be. The dream is to trade Monahan++ for someone like Tavares or Toews or even Barkov, but that would be really hard to pull off.
Either Bennett hits his ceiling, Monahan significantly improves, or the Flames rewrite the book on cup-winning team compositions, because they don't have an elite #1C right now and they might not ever have one.
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