Towards the end of the season, Monahan has been getting more and more defensive assignments, taking important defensive zone face offs, penalty killing. He's doing fairly well in those areas, and his offense has remained at a high level.
I think he's shown a bunch in the last while, that he isn't just benefitting off of Gaudreau offensively.
He very easily could be in "Tier 2" as outlined above, by next season. It's probably even quite likely that he's there next season.
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