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Originally Posted by Vinny01
Johnny was the highest paid player (tied with Gio) when he signed the deal. I took exception to the drive by that uses his draft position as an excuse to not criticize by stating the draft position is irrelevant once the player signed top money.
Don’t get me wrong Tkachuk is having a brutal season but he is 4.5 years younger than Johnny and has at least 1 more year of control so he is not as immediate of a concern when discussing the future. That can all change with an exit interview but I still think the organization views Tkachuk as part of the future. Not sure about Johnny.
Calling Monahan a huge bust when he leads his draft class in goals 8 years later is also something that irks me.
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Well it shouldn’t irk you at all because Nathan Mackinnon is the leading goal scorer and point getter of their 2013 draft class. Look it up.
With that said though, Monahan definitely isn’t a bust, neither is Bennett in my opinion. Monahan is a pretty good center, but he was never a #1 center and shouldn’t be paid what he’s being paid. The biggest problem in the Treliving era in my opinion are how their centers slot.
They needed a big, elite, play driving #1 center to slot at the top, not Monahan or even Backlund. Lindholm is clearly the best of the 3, but if the Flames want to win a Stanley Cup, an Elias Lindholm would probably slot as your #2. Then the Flames could have themselves 2 legitimately dangerous scoring lines rather than just relying on 1 line to get it done at any one point which has always been the problem with this franchise dating all the way back to the Iggy and Theo eras.