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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
ROR was 6th in Selke voting at age 22, as a winger, the same year he won the Lady Byng. He's also been his team's tough matchup center pretty much every year since then. So yes.
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6th is not that noteworthy (Monahan himself got a 1st place vote in 15-16) but I agree with the premise that O'Reilly does and always has played a better defensive game than Monahan overall. But Monahan is better offensively than O'Reilly was at the same age... O'Reilly improved between then and this year as well, so what is stopping the younger player from also improving?