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Originally Posted by dammage79
There's a serious disconnect going on here. The only thing wrong with Monahans game right now is he's not scoring goals. If you're going to tell me Monahan is Johnnys problem I'm gonna laugh. Reality 8s, Johnnys a bigger problem for the team. If he's not putting up any points (unlike a certain whipping boy tonight) he literally brings no value. Can't check, won't check, can't depend on him to gut out pucks in the corner. Whereas Monahan is actually in there shift after shift getting all the little things done.
Really sick and tired of all the Blames falling on Monahan. Or most of the blame. It's pure horsecrap.
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That's not the only thing wrong with Monahan's game though. Like I'll readily admit that he's more engaged, working harder in the corners and looks harder to play against, but we're still not talking about a center who's ready to play a shutdown role like Backlund and Lindholm. So what this team relies on is for his line to do their job and score enough goals in order for this team to win games and he and his line are not doing that. He's got 3 even strength goals on the entire season, he had 20ish even strength goals most seasons.
As for Gaudreau, he definitely has his own issues in the defensive zone, pretty horrible along the boards and can bail on plays to avoid getting hit, but his instincts and ability to manufacture offense out of thin air is what you pay for. But this line is broken. Team's are defending that line's breakout and they have no answer. All I saw this game was Draisaitl driving his line up the middle of the ice tonight and I just thought, how much better would the Flames be if Monahan had the ability to do the same thing.