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Originally Posted by playmaker
Stats-wise you're absolutely right about Monahan. But when you take into consideration his wheels, faceoff ability and a compete level, I just don't see a top tier centre in him. This is the skating era and Monahan's first three steps are just not there.
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Still very premature to be concluding that as he has a lot of room to mature and improve.
Regardless, the tier you're setting by excluding the possibility of elite young prospects like the ones we have from graduating to the level you're talking about means your definition of an elite #1 centre would probably fit 5-10 players all drafted #1 or close to it.
If that's what you mean, getting one of those is next to impossible without tanking and luck.
I think you're wildly underselling the potential of the two young centres we have, and suggesting the team can't succeed without a top 5-10 centre in the NHL is disingenuous and outright false based on the teams that have won the cup in the last ten years.