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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
It was never mental. It’s actually mostly physical. The Avalanche played the Flames perfectly top line perfectly and it’s been a recipe to shut them down for a loooong time now. This is what I’ve seen over the last several years:
How to beat Monahan and Gaudreau 101:
They mostly hurt you on the rush, so all you have to do is defend their counterattack you’ll effectively shut them down.
- Puck always funnels to Gaudreau
- Ok, don’t be aggressive on forecheck
- Drop your F2 and your F3 back
- Layer your backcheck
- Don’t attack Gaudreau because he can make you look bad one vs one
- Play it conservatively, keep him along the boards, don’t allow him to go east-west
- Keep a good gap on Monahan and __insert_RW__
- If Gaudreau tries to pass to Monahan, keep stick in lane to intercept
- If support is there, step up on Gaudreau just before or after the blue line to force turnover
DONE. Gaudreau and Monahan completely neutralized. Easy and predictable because the puck always ends up funneling to Gaudreau and management has done nothing to address this problem. Their final solution was to stick Josh Leivo, Dominic Simon and Brett Ritchie there. Well done guys, Gaudreau and Monahan’s even strength scoring has completely cratered and their trade value has completely fallen off a cliff from just 2 years ago, well done.
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At what point is it on those 2 guys to find a way to adapt then if their game is exploited like that? The whole last season and a bit with Lindholm they were terrible as well. Monahan is trying to change his game to a 200ft game I guess. Johnny is what he is and that might work on a stacked team but not this one.