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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Which is exactly why I find it a little silly that so many are ready to give up on him following a disappointing playoff performance. Monahan has not been a consistently dominant line driver over the course of his career, but he certainly has shown this ability in prodigious stretches—even this season.
I still believe he is going to put it all together, and I remain confident that the team can in fact succeed and win a championship with him centring the top line. So much of the resigned acceptance of his supposedly limited skill and passivity is exaggerated by the two-week playoff window in which the Flames, and their top players played about as poorly as they had all season long.
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I agree in not giving up on him, even if this is all he ever amounts to it's still the type of player any team would love to have. I just look at him and see all the tools there - he's big, strong, young and can already score. If he could just show some physicality and snarl, it's the prospect of having a player like that that's just so appealing.
I'm hoping he puts it all together like that, but I'm also starting to prepare for the fact that maybe he never does get there and this is what we get. Which is still a pretty darn good player.