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Originally Posted by strombad
Never live, but a lot of highlight packages and that sort of thing. Even in his highlights, he's guilty of those things, so by my estimation, being that those are his current problems, I don't see how they are going to change.
Plus of course, I supplement it with the ramblings of actual hockey analysts, not to say you're not credible, but are you suggesting that one must have personally watched game after game of his live to get an read on him, and that relying on information obtained by footage and the notes of other professionals that actually have watched him live is insufficient?
I don't create opinions out of fairy dust, if that's what you're asking.
I mean, a lot of people were high on Monahan at the draft, I wonder how many people "actually watched him play" or... you know... gathered opinions based on reels and the analysis of professionals in the field.
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No need to be defensive. You sounded like you had a considered opinion and I wanted to know what level of knowledge it was based on. If he wasn't any better in Russia, that's genuinely of interest because we might start pointing fingers at the scouts who brought him in.
Not trying to cast doubt on your information gathering which I'm sure has been very careful and extensive. But you know, it's the internet, people "create opinions out of fairy dust" all the time. I thought this might have been a chance to talk to one of the rare people who do watch Russian hockey.