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Originally Posted by timbit
He most certainly had some high end company that were far more disappointing.
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That's the problem with putting high end expectations on players that aren't high end talents. We have two high end talents in Gaudreau and Tkachuk... two LWs. Gio too but I was talking up front. None of Monahan, Lindholm or Backlund are high end imo... our 3 top centers, if you count Lindy as a C and honestly he is a better technical C than Monahan but still not a true 1C. That is the crux of the team's problem. You can't have an average collection of centers and expect to beat teams with a true 1C in a best of 7. Maybe Monahan has some room to grow, he is only 24, but we need a quantum leap from him and I dont think that's a fair expectation at this point.
It's weird, he ended up exactly the opposite of what I expected when we drafted him. I was thinking a cerebral, two way playmaker that could drive the play. Did not expect him to develop into hovering opportunist, a one-way offensive specialist/sniper. If Monahan was a Russian kid, I swear this fanbase would have had him out of town long ago.
I think fans expectations of a few of our players is out of whack tbh. And Gaudreau may be elite but name me another elite winger who won a SC without an elite 1C.