[bigrangy]

I love Benzo but even I’m starting to think that his lack of success really is due to his own limitations. His hands can’t keep up with his brain, causing him to lose the puck frequently in traffic. He still only has one deke, and it only works on rookies and Ian Cole. He falls way too often for an NHLer. He’s surprisngly bad on the boards for a scrappy guy.

He plays a great style of game and he can be really impactful when everything is going right but there’s just not enough there all the time which I’m sure has him disappointed, because if he brought all his skills every shift he’d be an 8 million dollar player. Too bad you can’t splice his compete, drive, and feistiness into Monahan. That would be a hell of a player.

Of course this could all be just due to the Flames seeming inability to develop any players at the NHL level. Every single regular is either as good as they were in 2015/2016 or worse than they were, although the rise in scoring a great PP this year contributed to some great counting stats.

Monahan has not improved since his second year in the league. All of his contemporaries have. In the endless cruel joke that is the Flames, Monahan gets paid the most out of him, Mackinnon, Barkov, and Scheifele, and they all signed their deal the same summer.

Just the flames doing flames things i guess