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Originally Posted by strombad
Your whole insistence on blocked shots and hits is really tiring, but I'll just say this:
Toews had (in 64 games) 27 hits and 13 blocked shots, if you boil that down to 6 games, you're looking at 2.5 hits and 1.2 blocked shots per 6 games stretch. As well, his FO% was 53.2 to end the season.
If he stays, he has plenty of time to get there, there is no evidence to suggest Toews started off at that pace (which is only MARGINALLY higher than Monahan).
Calm yourself, your RGR has already been proven as totally useless, so if you're going to say Monahan should be sent down, then at least use a better reasoning than him playing a "small" game. He uses his body out there, he's just not hitting (which is an unreliable stat, as every building counts hits differently).
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Really you are going to denigrate Toews because he has only won 53.2% of his face offs???
the Flames have basically never had a center winning 53.2 % of their face off since Theo Fluery in 1998-99.
Iginla has been the only Flame who has exceeded that for more than a few face offs and even Iginla was only taking half the number of faceoffs as a regular centre.
As to the hits being variable under different officials explain why compared to the rest of the Flames team of which he is the least hitting player playing in the same rinks with the same people doing the counting?
He has 1 hit in 6 games. Hudler and Baertschi.... guys who are in the NHL because of their vastly superior talent have 3 and 4 hits... playing in the same games under the same official counts.
You can't say that you have been watching the games and not noticed Monahan playing shy???
He has been great with the puck and makes great decisions in time and space but has not shown any inclination to crash the net or win puck battles.
He looks like a very talented 19 year old playing against men. This is very similar to Hall, RNH and Yakapov. As 19 year olds they had the talent to play in the NHL but they adapted their game to being physically dominated.