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Originally Posted by djsFlames
It's mildly surprising to note while Monahan wasn't anywhere near for the Flames what MacKinnon was for the Avs, that over the Colorado series he had 2 points and was a +1, while playing 18-22 minutes of ice time in the four losses.
I guess it was mainly the shutdown line that got the brunt of the beat down.
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This is what keeps Monahan from being rated higher despite his solid scoring stats.
If Mackinnon is beating up on Backlund and the shut down line an elite centre (examples: Barkov Couture Schiefele, Getzlaff, Kopitar, Toews, Ryan Johansen) will get asked to play head to head against the guy on the other team that is controlling the game.
On the other hand Monahan is not crazy good enough offensively that the other team is forced to play their top guy against him to stop him from winning the game/series.
It's not enough for your #1 C to break even with the other teams shut down guys.