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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Did he crawl to the bench or did another player help him up?
He was absolutely not a liability. He was, in fact, better than Hudler IMO. If he was such a liability, why did Hartley play him more than any other forward? He didn't have to - there were options and other lines playing well.
He's lost plenty of faceoffs in a game before without being hurt. He's still working on them, and aside from the Coyotes and Oiler laughers, he's been sub-par for a month now. In fact, he was well over 50% in the offensive zone. He had a bad night against Henrik and Richardson, but he was only 1-3 against Horvat (not great but not owned) and he was 100% against Bonino. Keep in mind too, that Vancouver got a lot of draws where it looked like they lost but the chased the puck through the draw or got a winger win.
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Monahan having by far one of his worst games as a Flame then you compare it to Hudler whom is also off his game? He started 0 for 8 and fell on his face and stayed there for more than an instant under his own freewill, sure he was better than Hudler some times but they were both pretty bad. TOI is not indicative of a positive performance. How can you really defend an 0 and 8 start with little to no puck possession and an inability to stay upright?
How is being one of the worst players on the team not being a liability? Sure everyone has their off games and maybe he'll get a hat trick next game, it is what is and doesn't make sense to defend one of Monahan's worst Flames games ever. Has he ever been 25% or less in faceoffs? I'm not piling up or criticizing him but what happened happened and it confuses me why you guys are ignoring the obvious.