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Originally Posted by Crumpy-Gunt
I completely disagree. Having jiri and Johnny on our team has helped a lot of players offensively. If you can't admit Sean is a beneficiary of a lot of tape to tape brilliant passes and vision and just Having more space due to the 2 speedy wizards on his line then I don't know what to say. You actually think if anything it's mony boosting the other twos scoring? All I can do is laugh at that.
Having Johnny and jiri on a line would open up space for any player. I could see ovie having a career year with these 2. They open up ice and then find the perfect pass at the perfect time. But sure it's not playing into Sean's numbers at all. In fact they need Sean to get these assists...nobody else could pot those goals..
Monahan is good. But he isnt the one boosting stats for gaudreau and hudler it's probably the other way around. We're such homers sometimes we can't even look honestly at our team and players. Sean isn't in the same world as toews even when toews was 21. Toews at the same age could play with Byron and granlund and out score Sean. He out scored Sean in 64 games in his sophomore season. I personally don't think he has what it takes to be comparable to arguable the best player on the planet. It's unfair to Sean.
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You would think Johnny and Hudler are the perfect hockey players from your praise but they have their deficiencies too. When your wingers are 5'8" and 5'10" there is not a lot of physical battles won in the offensive zone, and they aren't throwing the body or powering through guys. They could go entire shifts without touching the puck, and to pull their weight as a line they have to make their chances count when they do get possession IE shoot at a really high %. So yes they definitely benefit from a centre who can shoot 15%.
I think ideally that line should be split up as we get more skill in the lineup because none of those 3 are going to make power moves or physically dominate anyone.