Literally every player who made any decision in the 59 minutes before Backlund got hit is equally as responsible as Monahan.
If Lindholm’s first goal hadn’t been offside. If any one of many passes that happened right before went in a different direction. If Hanifin didn’t flub the shot. If Gio doesn’t trip Koivu. Etc etc.
The point is, if everything is a chain of events, you don’t get to choose which unrelated event in the chain has more responsibility than the other. Monahan needing to bury that goal is unrelated.
What fantasy.
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