Dominating physical players open up room for smaller skilled guys. Raymond was effectively useless on his line because he isn't a physical player, plus the other guys on his line weren't physical either.
Ferland created room for his line, as did Jones when he actually decided to play physical.
Monahan is a big center who doesn't player overly physical at this point. If he wants to give Johnny more room he'll have to learn how to be more physical.
I'm not saying that everyone should hit people, but we should look at developing some big physical players if we want to compete with the Ducks of the NHL.
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