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Originally Posted by Red
Exactly right. Has anyone ever heard anyone talk about shutting down Monahan?
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You don't seem too interested in reading other people's posts in good faith but if you re-read mine, I said MacKinnon *is* better than Monahan. No one denies that.
But I then provided a link which showed that they are fairly close in points and Monahan actually has more goals over his career.
So whatever other imaginary metric people may use to show MacKinnon is better - "generating chances", "being explosive", "needing to be shut-down", "Tim Horton's Commercials starred in", my point is that the things that can actually be measured on paper - goals and assists - show they're closer than some in this thread are giving Monahan credit for.
Monahan's not as flashy or dominant as MacKinnon but he gets it done quietly and effectively - at least to this point in his career.
(As someone else says, MacKinnon is finding his stride after a couple rough early years but that is actually another credit to Monahan in my view to have not struggled early on like MacKinnon did.)