It's hard to defend Monahan lately.
I get sometimes confidence is lacking but the guy seems more resigned than working to turn it around. We cant have him being invisible and getting dominated in big games, if he's working on being a better 200 foot center then he should be able to stem the tide a little better in those matchups.
I have more faith in Gaudreau making an impact from what I've seen through all this team adversity.
Maybe something lateral like Monahan for Reinhart is worth making calls about. Some kind of core transplant probably has to be made by the off season and I'm hesitant to put Gaudreau at the forefront of that when we would in all likelihood lose that trade.
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