If you want to get good hockey out of Monahan you basically need to have a great offensive winger to carry the puck and make plays and then also a great defensive winger to retrieve pucks, cycle, and win board battles
I think if he has a future here (assuming we don’t get good offers this off-season) the org needs to have a serious discussion about accepting the sunk cost and moving him to wing permanently. I see no reason why he can’t be JVR with faceoff skills moving forward
I still think the trade offers might not be as bad as we all think this offseason
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