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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I didn't compare just Monahan and Draisaitl. I compared Draisaitl to another winger, Gaudreau (who has more points and is in the top 10) as well. Plus Monahan has more goals than Draisaitl. Draisaitl is good, but he also scored the majority of his points beside McDavid. Even if you compare him to Tarasenko, he makes a million more.
Chia screwed up by signing McDavid first. He needed to drive a harder bargain with Draisaitl using the looming McDavid negotiation as a bargaining point.
Draisaitl isn't the worst contract they have, but it's too high, for an RFA that had one good year on McDavid's wing. I bet if they ever tried to move him they'd need to retain some salary.
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Yeah well we'll definitely have to agree to disagree because I think very highly of Draisaitl and I hate that the Oilers have him. He could easily command a bounty if he were to be traded and if we had a chance to grab him instead of Benentt, we'd be a perennial playoff team.
He had 1 good year and an exceptional year. The whole McDavid's winger thing is overstated. He wins a lot of faceoffs and typically centers his own line and is the only reason why Mike Cammalleri was going a ppg for a dozen or so games when they were together.