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Originally Posted by GioforPM
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.
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The breakaway that Johnny hit the crossbar on before Tkachuk scored? Monahan was given the 2nd assist.