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Originally Posted by Bingo
To me everything comes down to Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan.
Treliving built around the notion that they were 2/3 of a first line. From the 18/19 all star break to today they haven't been.
It's his job to make that call, and be right for sure. But honestly how many on this site disagreed with that assumption? Because that's what's gone wrong.
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I still think they are top line players. But the support on RW has been lacking ever since the idea of getting Lindholm away from them came up. Granted they were really lighting the world on fire after the ASG together, but post Lindholm has been an adventure to plug in a player on that line. And it's magnified the issues.
I will say though, Monahan has taken an offensive output hit while trying to round out his game defensively.
But worse than that has been Gaudreaus game has gone stale while the Flames have clamped down on their playing style.
IMO, it's only gonna get worse for Johnny here.