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The majority of the first lines goals are from off the rush plays or Gaudreau finding Monahan or Lindholm in the slot, those kind of goals don’t happen in the playoffs.

Teams have clued in that if you cover Monahan in the high slot and let Gaudreau run in the perimeter waiting for Monahan to get open, you pretty much nullify that line.

They need to simplify their game, don’t look for the fancy play, take what the opposition gives you. If they will let Gaudreau run on the perimeter than do take that and put hard low shots on the goalie from whatever angle you want and hope that Monahan gets the rebound. It’ll be 50/50 that Monahan gets to it but that’s better than the 0% chances right now. Gaudreau just needs to put shots on net and have Monahan at net front to tip or bang in rebounds. That should be what they are looking for because the opposition know not to give Monahan the high slot cause that’s where he is most dangerous. Create havoc in front of the opposition net, score the garbage goals, pay the price, it’s playoff hockey. Furthermore, they should have Lindholm at the high slot waiting for a rebound and also in position to defend if the puck goes the other way.

To borrow a Raptors thing, Garbage man gets paid!