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Originally Posted by New Era
Hot take. Play Gaudreau on a line all buy himself and see what he generates. There's the thing, players are most successful when they are paired with a complimentary player. Monahan needs a setup man to be successful. Gaudreau needs a finisher. Split them up and both suffer. Pretty well the same way any player with the exception of those generational players will suffer.
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I think Gaudreau has made guys into better goal scorers with his playmaking. Lindholm had 55 goals in the 317 games he played in his last 4 years in Carolina. He has 56 in the last 151 with many of those playing with Gaudreau. I also think Gaudreau is a decent goal scorer as well having hit 30 two times.
I think most any player who plays with Gaudreau will see an uptick in goals. I'm not as confident that guys who moved to playing with Monahan would see their assist totals go up the same way. He's a very good goal scorer, but at this point it's pretty unlikely he will do better than the 34 he put up in 18-19. That's not a career high for an elite goal scorer. Whereas 60 assists is an elite level number and Gaudreau has managed that twice.