People wanting to trade any of our young talented core are crazy to do so IMO, Johansen is 8 games from 600 and at 130 career goals... Monahan is 28 games from 500 and at 172 career goals; that’s 42 more goals in 120 less games played... madness! Our top line doesn’t need more passing if anything it needs a bit more grit and with Johansen averaging about 100 hits a year that isn’t enough of an increase in that area to offset the loss of 20 goals in Monahan.
We need to tinker with this lineup, upgrade certain positions like 2nd line RW, not trade cornerstone pieces based on emotions reacting from a bad playoff performance where we had a lot of first and second timers playing.
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