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Video: Flames rookie Monahan scores winner against Devils

2013 NHL Draft - Portraits

poses for a portrait after being selected by xxx during the 2013 NHL Draft at the Prudential Center on June 30, 2013 in Newark, New Jersey.

Jamie Squire

If there is debate about whether the Calgary Flames should send Sean Monahan back to junior, the teenage rookie is making making a compelling case to stay in the NHL.

Monahan, the sixth overall pick in this year’s NHL Draft, scored his fourth goal of the season on Friday, in the Flames’ 3-2 win over the New Jersey Devils. And this one turned out to be the winning goal.

His 19th birthday is Saturday. The Flames do have the option of sending him back to junior after nine games so as not to burn a year on his entry-level contract.

Should Calgary somehow choose that option, it would certainly lend itself to criticism in that hockey market.

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