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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Sean Monahan has played a lot of NHL hockey, but he is still young enough that I don't think we entirely know what kind of a player he is. Sometimes players take years to figure out how to play and succeed in the playoffs, and if all that Monahan is missing is the requisite intensity and tenacity to get to the open ice a little quicker, or to hold off a forecheck then I feel pretty good about his ability to get there, and it is way too early to be making these sorts of blanket dismissals.
Oh, god. Sean Monahan is not a complimentary player. We don't get to see everything he is capable of doing because he has played so much with Johnny Gaudreau, who is the primary puck carrier and distributor on that line. It's not because Sean Monahan is incapable of doing it, it is because they are so comfortable with one another in these respective roles, and because it tends to work.
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You sure do get upset about people having different opinions than you do. Based on what I’ve seen, and from the team’s performance in the playoffs to date, and in my experience watching the Flames for a long time, that’s my opinion. Monahan has never in my years of watching him taken over a game without the help of Gaudreau, and he certainly hasn’t carried a team on his back the way players like Mackinnon, Crosby, O’Reilly, Iginla, etc have shown the ability to do.
And again, in my opinion, that’s one of the reasons why this team may not be built to go far in the playoffs. Feel free to disagree but my mind isn’t going to be swayed by getting dragged into an argument about it on the internet. It’s going to be swayed by seeing it happen.