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Originally Posted by Bingo
The more I go through the wars on this site the more I wonder how little of it is trolling and likely just a personal bias.
Watched both games this year with my 16 year old son, and both on TV (game one) and live (last night) all he can see is Mark Giordano mistakes. He's good (or smart enough) to bend on an overall opinion towards the negative, but he's conditioned to think less of the guy and he can't see anything else.
I think a lot of people have these filters.
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What you look for you will never cease to find.
Thats why when we are too close to a situation that's driving us nuts we ask the opinion of an outsider, they have no personal stake in it and can offer observations without seeing things through a biased lens.
Same goes for talk in here. When a guy that didn't play a full season won you 10 games of your 37 wins off his stick last year and is scoring a goal per game to start the season and he's still not considered up to par for his position, then surely nothing short of a peak Crosby or Mcdavid performance from game to game will cut it for these posters, and even those guys have off nights.
The greatest difference in games that a player can make at the end of the day doesn't come from flashy stick handling, a physical presence, or even puck possession, it comes from putting the puck in the net, and even more so doing it at key times. And no one on the team does that better than Monahan. Outside of transforming into a very small handful of guys that are better at it, you cant ask much more if you want a guy that can help you win games, regardless of style points.
Most ridiculous player beef to have it you're a fan of the flames winning.