[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Yeah, this is nuts. I can certainly concede that Monahan is not a prototypical top-line NHL centre, and he quite possibly never will be. But this idea that he is somehow merely an average or worse second line pivot is completely ridiculous. Since he entered the League Monahan is the #16 scoring centre in the entire NHL, and ahead of such stalwarts as O'Reilly, Johansson, Schenn, Duchene, Couturier and Krejci. Players of that calibre who are 25-years old are not playing on anyone's third line.

And one of the biggest defensive liabilities on the team.