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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Have to imagine some of that is directed towards Francis as he's really been the vocal one in the media heavily criticizing Monahan and Gaudreau.
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Francis is now too old to hang out with those guys (and those guys probably told him as much) so he is writing hit prices trying to regain his HNIC insider status.
But I think Tkachuk is talking overall and not giving any credit to Francis specifically. Those guys at that age are far past reading just the newspaper or Sportsnet/TSN, they too go to HF or here, and see multiple threads about those two guys specifically that range from annoyance of fans, to full blown psychological and physical critical analysis from nobodies on a message board.
Howevever, that general fan consensus feeds it's way back through the beat writers who are looking for their lede, and all of a sudden it's all repeated to the larger masses and then that feeling is taken as generally accepted consensus.