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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
I'm really sick of hearing this from Flames fans. Monahan may not be a superstar center, but he is still a top line center. Yeah on an elite team maybe he is a #2, but that doesn't change the fact he's a top 31 center in the NHL.
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IMO was not one of the top 31 centers in the NHL this past season. His line was outplayed plenty 5 on 5, and they weren’t always up against other top lines.
I like Monahan, he’s tougher than people give him credit for and he has good hands. But his 200 foot game doesn’t exist and too often he looks lost in his own zone and doesn’t have the attention to detail you’d like to see.
If Sean Monahan is your number #1 center, you better have Ovechkin on his wing if you plan on winning. Or one hell of a team behind him.
Now feel free to challenge me on the 31 centers better than him and God knows I haven’t gone and added up everyone who was better. But his game is awfully one dimensional and certainly this past season, that dimension wasn’t good enough to make up for his play elsewhere.