You look at who will be better 3 years from now as well as the present, but more the former, you also take into consideration the intangibles a player brings to the table. As I said earlier if a player has a history of winning, that weighs in his favour. It's not a fluke why some players winning follows them around. Any CEO from a fortune 500 co would surround themselves with people with a history of success, obcourse there are only a select few out there that fit this bill, but Monahan is one of those players, besides having elite hockey sense.
Lindholm don't know much about him other than what I have read, but from what I was told, he has a tendacy to take periods off. As talented he is, I would go with the sure thing in Monahan, plus he is a guy from Brampton and he is a product of the best producer of hockey talent the NHL has. Too many factors in his favour. Now all we have to worry about is the hockey gods reward us with the lotto balls for our abysmal hockey team these past 3 years.