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Originally Posted by IamNotKenKing
Guess it's time to update this info.
Monahan was drafted in 2013.
Monahan has 169 career NHL goals.
Players drafted in 2013 with more goals - 0
Players drafted in 2012 with more goals - 0
Players drafted in 2011 with more goals - 2 - Landeskog (176) & Kucherov (185)
Players drafted in 2010 with more goals - 4 - Seguin (260), Skinner (241), Tarasenko (207) & Hall (202).
Heck, let's go back to drafted in 2009 - 4 - Tavares (317), Duchene (231), E. Kane (214) & O'Reilly (182).
Sure, let's add on drafted in 2008 - 3 - Stamkos (389), Eberle (205) & Atkinson (184).
(There are only 8 who were drafted in 2007 who have more...)
So, of the last 2,331 players drafted in the NHL, (2008 to and including 2018), 13 of them have more goals than Sean Monahan. 13. Thir-####ing-teen
Of those 2,331 players 1,059 of them were drafted before Sean Monahan.
Since the start of the 2013-2014 season, being when he was drafted into the NHL, he has the 15th most goals.
The 7th most for a centre.
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That's a myopic analysis though. No one will go through the annals of history and talks about how many goals Peter Forsberg or Henrik Sedin or Joe Thornton or Pavel Datsyuk or Sergei Fedorov or Brian Trottier or Nik Backstrom scored.
While goalscoring is important, it is not really a framework around which to evaluate players with other responsibilities. We saw this last year too with the insufferable "Dougie Hamilton has the most goals of any defenseman!!!".
Can you honestly say that you would reject "#1" center swap offers by the Flyers, Panthers, Avs because of the information you posted?
Monahan's goal scoring is an important part of this team and we certainly need it back. But defaulting to it as if that outweighs the many other aspects of the position - the aspects even a bottom six guy like Derek Ryan has excelled at in that top line role - comes across as cherrypicking. Especially when using career totals as if a team like Florida cares that Barkov had a slow start to his career with heavy responsibilities thrust upon him from the start.
I think we're very fortunate that Mikael Backlund is as good as he is at many of the duties expected of a #1 center, and together with Monahan's offense we have the equivalent of one, but center is still by far the weakest area on the team. There's no shame in admitting that.