Sean Monahan - Comparables  Richard Wolowicz  Sean Monahan
played for a horrendous team. It's the kind of thing that you
know matters, but you don't really know how it matters. Did
Monahan benefit from getting way more ice time than he might get
otherwise? Did he benefit from the fact that everyone on the
team knew that offense would usually run through Monahan? Was he
negatively impacted by the fact that opposing teams could focus
on him alone or by the fact that he didn't have really talented
linemates to work with?  I won't try to answer those specific
questions, but in order to get some idea of how playing for an
awful team might impact a player, I decided to look for other
players drafted with one of the first thirty picks over the last
thirty entry drafts who also played for a team with a points
percentage of 30% or worse. Perhaps unsurprisingly, there aren't
very many, and even fewer who were drafted in the top ten. The
chart below includes all of them, along with their adjusted
points per game in thei