I'll take your question seriously, if you want the real issue, we need a bonafide number 1 centre. We can't have an undersized, albeit hyper skilled winger carrying the rest of our first line. We can get away with it most of a regular season, but that doesn't fly in the playoffs.
We've seen a handful of times how good Gaudreau can be in big games if he's got a true star centre, see when he played with MacKinnon at the World Cup for just one example. I love Monahan, but I don't think he's got the qualities to hang with the league's best centres, and in order to get the best out of Gaudreau in crunch time, and for that matter Lindholm we need exactly that.
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