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Originally Posted by Vedder
There's no signs of life there though. He can't create offense at even strength. The declining trends on this date back to Peters I think. I'm sympathetic to the injury argument, except he is still taking faceoffs...Johnny has benefited away from him but was terrible with him.... Are we going to saddle one of our better players with him for another season to the team's detriment, hoping for a dead cat bounce?
Sounds like Brad has actively been trying to trade him for a while (Buffalo, Columbus rumors). I think the team has come to the conclusion to cut ties with more context and information than we have. The rumored return on Buffalo trade was super underwhelming. I think the league has figured him out.
Sutter didn't even have him on the ice for the 6v5 with the season on the line on Saturday.
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100%.
I think even Sutter has had enough of Monahan's lack of production. He only played him like 14 minutes last Saturday in a do or die game.
The Gaudreau-Lindholm-Tkachuk line has been an absolute revelation. Lindholm looks like he could score 40 on this line. He just needs to work on his one timer a bit, timing, accuracy, getting lost in coverage and I think he could be a top end finisher.
They really should've traded Monahan after 18-19, his value was never higher. If Treliving focused a little more on his forward group rather than concentrating so much on defense and goaltending, this team might be in the playoffs. He spent so much time and cap space on Markstrom so that the goaltending position could be a strength, but it hasn't been a strength, it's been adequate.
The scoring on the other hand was a weakness, always has been (minus one season) and he's ignored the position in contrast. Adding all these league minimum forwards to fill out extremely important positions when he could've tried for Toffoli instead...I mean you get what you pay for right? It's actually quite fitting that Toffoli put the nail in the coffin against the Flames, maybe then management will actually pay some attention to that side of the game instead of slapping together a bunch of crappy lines and just hoping for results. Such a terrible game plan going into this season.