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Originally Posted by GioforPM
You've moved the goalposts from "is Monahan soft" to "is Monahan a top 1C". All anyone has really been saying is that Monahan has gone to tough areas, taken abuse, and been called soft for doing so because he doesn't fight and take a bunch of penalties.
Is he highly effective is a completely different discussion.
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Monahan is highly tough by the standards of normal human beings.
He is soft by the standard of hockey players, and he is especially soft for his role.
If he was tough in hockey terms, he’d give as good as he got, and that would show up somewhere.
PIMs, fights, hits, somewhere. But it doesn’t.