Not sure if this is worth it's own thread, but didn't think it really belonged in the Sean "Fricken" thread. Basically discusses some of the reasons Flames should send Monahan down.
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-pu...3441--nhl.html
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As a junior-eligible rookie — he just turned 19 on Saturday — has four games left in his tryout period with the Flames, at which point the team will have to make a decision about whether to keep him up with the big club or send him back to Ottawa of the OHL for another year. Given that he's point-a-game and the rumblings that he's "making it hard" for the Flames to stash him away for another year for a good week at this point, it looks for all the world as though the Flames are going to keep him.
And they absolutely shouldn't.
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His personal underlying numbers (relative corsi of 9.0, fourth on the team) only seem to get better as he's sheltered from tough competition — he's facing the weakest opponents of anyone on the Flames, as you might expect — and beginning just 25 percent of his shifts in the defensive zone, and yet 48.5 percent end there. His shooting percentage is at 30.8, which almost couldn't be more unsustainable.
All those points, all those timely goals, making it pretty easy to ignore all the times he's getting hemmed into his own zone and watching as other teams score around him; not to put too much stock into plus-minus, but of the 16 goals the Flames allowed through five games (which, hoo boy that's a lot), Monahan has been on the ice for seven.
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He doesn't make the team better, or at least not better-enough, to justify it. The Flames are, realistically, a good three and maybe even four or five years away from being any good at all, and based on this start might even have a little bit farther too fall before they bottom out entirely. Keeping him just serves to make Monahan more expensive sooner, and there's no reason for it at all.
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The Flames are trying to sell hope even as they crash out in the standings. Monahan's goal total does that better than prudence and the promise of lottery picks to come. Maybe that's the only good business decision ownership is letting them care about
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Some real gems in there. Also, this is the guy that tweeted that making Giordano captain of the team was "poor asset management".