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Originally Posted by shermanator
The amount of crap Monahan is taking for having a bad year is unreal. He's a 22 year old #1 centre with 2.5 good seasons under his belt (last year he struggled first half too), and half a bad season in which he missed most of training camp due to injury, and his linemate decided to hold out for a big contract and then got injured.
Other centres who have goal and point totals in the same range as Monahan this year are Toews, Kopitar, Statsny, O'Reilly and Galchenyuk, Do they all suddenly suck too?
It's a bad season for Monahan, absolutely. But let's not write him off, and run him out of town because of it.
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Considering he just signed the third richest contract on the team, there have been expectations for him to generate offense. However, he has largely been ineffective for the majority of the games this season. Monahan has had 44 games now, but has not yet been able to pick it up, even with Gaudreau on his line.
Your comparisons are a little questionable, since:
Toews has played 9 less games
Kopitar has played 8 less games
O'Reilly has played 14 less games
Galchenyuk has played 19 less games
In addition, Monahan has the third lowest +/- (-15) of all the centres in the league (not that +/- says everything). Of course, there's still time for him to pick it up and we're all hoping that he'll return to being the Monahan of old. We shouldn't write him off/run him out of town, but it definitely makes sense to be concerned, as he has been completely underwhelming considering we made a ~$45Mish investment in him.