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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
If you'd like to see some not so favourable stats, how about 3 goals in 22 games for the $6.3M goal scoring center? What's the opposite of earth shattering?
At the end of the day though, It's not even so much about stats. It's about one line doing its job and another line that's not during the most critical juncture of the Flames season. I don't think it's a stretch to say that had the second line actually showed up in the last 10 games, the Flames' season wouldn't be done.
Lastly, I don't like the insinuation that Gaudreau or Monahan's play is somehow only tied to who their linemates are. It sounds like excuse making. Yeah sure, Ritchie doesn't provide much, but Mangiapane and Dube are pretty good wingers in their own right and had that line been more effective, Sutter wouldn't have split them up.
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You were the one originally making the argument that Gaudreau was hampered by his line mate. But are you seriously saying Mangiapane is an upgrade over Gaudreau for Monahan (because that’s the only new line mate he ended up with). With Ritchie, Monaghan and Mangiapane have the same issue as Gaudreau and Monahan did - the defenders can ignore half the ice .
The other advantage is that Gaudreau’s liberates have played together all year, and he’s played with both of them before too, on the power play and also obviously with Lindholm.
You keep raising Monahan’s salary but you haven’t addressed my point about that in any way. He’s not an elite centre. He doesn’t make elite centre money. He makes 2C money.