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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Now that is body is back he is back to being better than Horvat.
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Yeah for the first 8 years after that draft (2013-2014 to 2019-2020) nobody was taking Horvat, Morrissey, or anybody else taken after Monahan before him in that draft.
His career being derailed by injuries doesn't make it a bad pick - especially since he was already UFA age by then and Flames already had gotten a ton of value out of him.
Even somebody like Morrissey didn't really turn elite until 22-23 season, which was unexpected TBH. He was a 35 point dman that looked like a 2nd pairing d-man, then he turns 27 and all of a sudden he's a 70+ point top pairing guy.
So lots of hindsight and recency bias in saying those guys are better than Monahan.