I put Eichel in white at the bottom of my post... Scorpion must have deleted that
I was actually correcting your spelling
__________________
"This has been TheScorpion's shtick for years. All these hot takes, clickbait nonsense just to feed his social media algorithms." –Tuco
The Following User Says Thank You to TheScorpion For This Useful Post:
In the past 20 years, there's been 14 players to have over 100 goals as 22 year olds (as of Feb 1st that year). 9 of those players went first overall in their draft.
Steven Stamkos 208 - First overall - (5 seasons)
Sidney Crosby 183 - First overall - (5 seasons)
Alex Ovechkin 163 - First overall - (3 seasons)
Ilya Kovalchuk 160 - First overall -(4 seasons)
Rick Nash 116 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Evgeni Malkin 115 - Second overall - (3 seasons)
Jeff Skinner 115 - Seventh overall - (5 seasons)
Jonathan Toews 115 - Third overall - (4 seasons)
Vincent Lecavalier -114 - Fist overall - (5 seasons)
Anze Kopitar 113 - Eleventh overall - (4 seasons)
John Tavares 112 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Sean Monahan 104 - Sixth overall - (almost 4 seasons)
Patrick Kane 103 - First overall - (4 seasons)
Joe Thornton 101 - First overall - (5 seasons)
The Following 13 Users Say Thank You to Oling_Roachinen For This Useful Post:
What's the advanced stat narrative from that group lately?
Personally I think he's been as good in our own zone as he has in the offensive and like Flash mentioned above Gulutzen has him skating the entire length of the ice, from one net to the other. Looks great IMO. Has he gotten his license this season? Is he a driver yet?
If Monahan could ever start a season on fire 40 goals should be easily attainable. Seems to take him a while to hit his stride as he was pretty terrible for the first few months of the season but like last season he's finishing strong.
The Following User Says Thank You to Erick Estrada For This Useful Post:
The start of next season might be the time we finally have a good start. No contract drama, no missing training camps, no new coaches, no new systems etc etc.
If Monahan could ever start a season on fire 40 goals should be easily attainable. Seems to take him a while to hit his stride as he was pretty terrible for the first few months of the season but like last season he's finishing strong.
That really seems to be the next step in his development. He had a nice rookie season with 22 goals 34pts in 75 games. He blew up in his sophomore year for 31 goals and 62pts. The next 2 seasons will end up similar to his breakout year but he hasn't taken the next step in terms of offense. Not saying that is a bad thing. Monahan has improved his faceoffs and has been better away from the puck this year. He has scored 25 this year so far after 27 last year. He had the career high in points with 63 last year and has 52 with 7 games to go this year.
Monahan could continue to go for 30 goals and 60 points every year and have a wonderful career but I do think he has the ability and potential to get to 40-80 as he gets closer to his prime years
There have been 1,475 players drafted since and including 2010.
5 of those 1,475 have scored more goals than Monahan's 105.
1 is from 2011 (Landeskog - 115 in 108 more games)
The other 4 are from 2010 (Seguin - 188 in 189 more games; Skinner - 173 in 176 more games; Hall - 150 134 more games & Tarasenko - 140 in 19 more games).
Last edited by IamNotKenKing; 03-27-2017 at 08:50 AM.
Reason: Typo on the year
The Following User Says Thank You to IamNotKenKing For This Useful Post:
If Monahan could ever start a season on fire 40 goals should be easily attainable. Seems to take him a while to hit his stride as he was pretty terrible for the first few months of the season but like last season he's finishing strong.
Didn't he have back issues to start the last 2 seasons?