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Originally Posted by Oling_Roachinen
Let's trade Monahan to find out if he's a product of Gaudreau? Well, what if he isn't? What if the hockey player who was scoring 20+ goals with Galiardi as a teen before Gaudreau even played in the NHL is actually a good scorer? And we just traded an actual good player and not a product.
Given Johhny's skillset, you probably do want a center who's a finisher. A complete list of centers with more goals than Monahan in the last 3 years:
Crosby
Malkin
Seguin
Tavares
I mean, he's in literally elite company right now.
In 2001, you would have been in favour of trading the no-passion, product-of-an-all-star-winger Savard for pretty much the exact same reasons. Except Savard was older and proven less.
Funny enough they did trade him because of a cultural shakeup and attitude, and we lived the next decade wondering what could have been for our all-star winger if they had kept a skilled center instead of "character" centers. I don't want to #### that up again.
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Fair points and duly noted. Don’t get me wrong I’m not going to be angry if Monahan isn’t trade was just thinking out loud on a topic I never seen brought up.
I hated the Savard trade, especially given that they fired GG1.0 days later
BTW thanks for the respectful rebuttal and not just sticking your tough out and calling me a stupid-head.