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Originally Posted by ricardodw
How good is Brayden Schenn? or how big of a disappointment is he so far?
Mike Richards was dumped by the Flyers. They were disappointed in him.
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but if in 4 years Monahan is at the Schenn level everyone at CP will be terribly disappointed.
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Yeah. Not for on-ice performance though.
http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/...urn=nhl,wp9667
There were millions of rumours of Richards and Carter partying long before they were traded.
Besides, in Richards breakout season there wasn't a ton of depth. He surprisingly jumped ahead of free agent Briere in the depth chart and ended up getting 20+ minutes a night playing 5 minutes on the PP along with Briere each game. Half his points came from the PP, and anyone playing 5 minutes a night is going to put up points. Even Matt Cullen was nearing a point-per-game that season because he was playing as much time on the PP as Richards was.
Then came the biggest factor, Claude Giroux. It's not a surprise that when Giroux overpassed Richards on the depth chart that Richards numbers fell quite substantially. When someone is ahead of you in the depth chart it's a lot harder to put up those points. Same with Kopitar ahead of him in LA now.
With Schenn the Flyers have greater center depth. Giroux is getting top line minutes, nothing will stop that. So Schenn had to fight with Briere, Couturier and now Lecavalier for minutes while the coaches juggle lines and changed positions to try and get the most out of the team. And despite not getting a lot of time he was still able to put up respectable numbers. Now
if he ends up playing right wing on the top line with Giroux permanently his stats will inflate while Voracek will be in a similar position as Richards was when Giroux showed up.
So if 4 years from now Monahan is
only putting up 45 points we may be disappointed in him. Depends though, is he top line center or playing behind McDavid and Sam Reinhart?