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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
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.
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Also not tough by virtue of a lack of pms - Mark Giordano, Chris Tanev, Nordstrom, Stone.
Also not tough by virtue of hits: wonder centre Elias Lindholm (6 more hits than Monahan in 3 more games) and everyone else on the Flames except Lucic, Tkachuk, Ritchie, Nordstrom and Dube.
Tough as in taking abused though - he's probably slashed as much as Gaudreau, only with less fan outrage, and takes a lot more checks and crosschecks in the slot.