[polak]

I don't think Gaudreau has to sit, he just needs to spend tons of time with the video coach and watch how teams are defending him and work with the coaching staff to adapt a system towards it. Now this is what is particularly worrisome about the Gaudreau situation. Either:

A) They haven't done this yet which would mean we have the most inept and clueless staff in the league

-OR-

B) They have done this and it's just not working.

Now while we may have the most inept coaching staff in the league (stats back this up), I seriously doubt they haven't spent hours pouring over video trying to figure out a way to get that top line producing. Whatever they're doing just isn't working. What's troublesome though is the fact that this is hardly the first time teams have built a gameplan around stopping Johnny. I'm sure that was priority #1 early last year for every team playing the Flames.

I think his issue is just bad puck luck combined with frustration and over thinking things/trying to do too much. In a normal situation, all you would do is put a bit more responsibility on his line mates while he breaks out of his funk but unfortunately for the Flames, Monahan is the worst player on the team this season and looks lost out there.

I think they need to move him away from Sean and maybe get him playing a back to basics game with Backlund and Frolik or something. I don't know, but this is a huge problem this year. If these guys can't figure it out we will be the worst team in the league this year. Without a doubt. Backlund and Frolik cannot be the best players on an NHL team.

I have no idea where to begin with Monahan. He has no idea what he's doing out there. It's as if he forgot how to play hockey.

I really hope it's just a lack of practice time and things will get better after this stretch of days off.