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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
People ask why Crosby is the best player in the league, when McDavid outscores him.
The answer is that, every off-season Crosby identifies a weakness in his game and spends months working, making that weakness a strength.
Monahan is one of the few established players on the team willing to build his skillset. Having a better handle on the defensive side will help immensely in a playoff run, and a lot of respect is given to Monahan for stepping forward so that the Colorado debacle doesn't happen again, if he can help it.
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Except that Crosby improved on his weaknesses while maintaining and even improving on his strengths at the same time while.Monahans offense has fallen off a cliff for the sake of apparently playing better defensively despite not playing against the other teams top lines on a regular basis and having the worst plus minus on the entire team.
Just watching the games, the Monahan line is consistently the lone that most often gets hemmed in their own zone and has the most trouble maintaining possession in the other teams end.