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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
Monahan deserves some credit for his diving play to keep the puck onside at the beginning of the goal scoring sequence. Although he was held off the score sheet I thought he made some excellent plays in transition on both sides of the ice. Some timely defensive plays and some nice puck movement in the neutral zone. Mony looks like a complete player this year.
On a slightly related note, I would love to see a compilation of Monahan taking a beating in front of the net and coming back for more shift after shift. That guy lives in one of the hardest spots on the ice.
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Monahan will never deliver crushing hits. But he's separating defencemen from pucks fairly often, transitioning pretty well, and his defensive positioning and awareness is really quite good. You don't often see him lose his man. I think he may have put on some muscle. He's as good as ever in faceoffs, too.
I'd say he's fed Gaudreau more nice passes than the reverse this year. And one long one to Tkachuk for which I'm still mad he didn't get an assist.