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Originally Posted by edslunch
Of course he isn't going to score at this pace throughout the year - we would win the Calder, Richard and likely Ross trophies if he did . He's also not going to stay at 8th in ice time. For crying out loud the kid has played five games and seems to be adjusting ok. Do you suppose he might just improve his game and take over a bigger role over the year? Not in terms of points of course.
It's fine to predict he will regress point wise - that's a no brainer - but why does that have to mean he regresses play wise? From what I've heard of him I fully expect him to end up >50% on face offs for example.
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That's a more in depth look at Monahan and his ice time prior to the New Jersey game. I'm just saying that we're all (rightfully) very high on him right now but when he isn't scoring and getting the ice time he is right now with some of our better players(which is likely), then what happens? If you think it's better for his development to play limited minutes in the NHL then OK that's your opinion and some might think he's better refining a few more things in the OHL. It's a matter of preference, but people shouldn't be butt hurt about metrics that NHL teams are paying increasing attention to because they are generally very accurate. Wasn't long ago that using Fenwick suggested a Minnesota team that was first place in the West at the December was likely to miss the playoffs whilst the then out of the playoffs LA Kings were an elite team that was getting ridiculously unlucky....and they strolled to the Stanley Cup as their luck regressed to the mean throughout the season and in the playoffs.