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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
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.
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Fair enough MacKinnon passed Monahan recently. Not sure he is really overpaid considering considering he scored anywhere from 27-34 goals in the first 3 years of the deal. He sure has fallen off last year but agree far from a bust.
I don’t know if they need a big center. I would be happy with Brayden Point but I agree Monahan hasn’t filled the role of elite number 1 C but just hated that he was called a bust considering what he has done in terms of goals and points.
I can take the Bennett bust stuff even though he is not a bust in the sense that Yakupov or Juolevi are busts.