On Inglewood Jack's note:
Sean Monahan was drafted in 2013.
List of the 1,288 players drafted after he was drafted, who have scored more regular season goals:
NO ONE
List of the 2,205 players drafted before him, who have scored more regular season goals.
2013 Draft:
NO ONE
2012 Draft (One Season Before Sean):
NO ONE
2011 Draft (Two Seasons Before Sean):
Nikita Kucherov and Gabriel Landeskog (4 more goals)
2010 Draft (Three Seasons Before Sean):
Tyler Seguin, Jeff Skinner, Taylor Hall, Vladimir Tarasenko
2009 Draft (Four Seasons Before Sean):
John Tavares, Matt Duchene, Evander Kane, Ryan O'Reilly (1 more goal)
2008 Draft (Five Seasons Before Sean):
Steven Stamkos, Jordan Eberle, Cam Atkinson (4 more goals)
2007 Draft (Six Seasons Before Sean):
Only 8 players
2006 (Seven Seasons Before Sean):
Only 10 players, 2 of which only have 2 more.
2005 (Eight Seasons Before Sean):
Only 7 players.
2004 (Nine Seasons Before Sean):
Only 7 players. 2 of which are within 1 and 2 goals.
So, of the last 3,493 players drafted in the NHL, 2,205 were drafted before Sean Monahan, and 1,288 after.
Of the 1,288 who were drafted after he was, none have scored more regular season goals in the NHL over their career. None.
Of the 2,205 who were drafted before Sean was drafted, 45 have scored more goals than him, and of those 45, only 13 were even drafted within 5 years of Sean, the others being the prior 6-9 years. And he is within 4 goals of 7 of those guys.
These stats are not only while Monahan was in the league, but all of these players' entire careers, several years of which was prior to Monahan even being drafted.
While he is not Ovechkin/Stamkos by any stretch, he is an elite goal scorer.
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