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Originally Posted by flambers
By the team, Monahan is the 2nd highest paid forward on the team.
With that is increased expectations.
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If Monny can be accused of anything, it's over achieving this early in his career, but he likely hasn't.
He has already shown he has boat loads of talent as well has shown what he can do by himself and with certain players.
Currently, he looks like a guy who is either a) still labouring a bit from a back injury, b) a player who missed training camp and is having a tough time getting back to 100% game speed, c) focusing on different aspects of his gametophyte become a more rounded player, d) another player on the team trying to learn a new, somewhat confusing system or... just maybe... all of the above.
None of this has to do with money.
If you want him traded, that's your choice. If you want him benched that's fine as well.
But you can't for a second say he's overpaid in today's NHL as you look at his comparables and he's at the top of them.
You equally can not say he is underachieving and not meeting expectations as he has done everything we could have hoped for and more.
He's earned a bit of slack. He certainly does not deserve this much flack. It's embarrassing.