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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Monahan is a C with a $6M contract and there are only a handful of players in the entire league who have scored more goals than him since he played his first game.
He was playing like a whole new man at the start of the year. Hitting, scoring, defending... he looked like a man possessed out there at times. Who knows for sure when he screwed up his hip (and/or whatever else we don't know about). Monahan is notorious for playing through injuries that would sideline most people (even going all the way back to junior).
This notion that he has no value is laughable. I saw enough of what I was looking for out of him at the start of the year, and Sutter has come out and talked about how he's "done everything that was asked of him and more." I'm pretty interested in seeing what Sutter can do with him during a full, normal, season - with fans, proper practices, non-compressed schedules, etc.
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Monahan definitely looked better at the beginning season vs now. But let’s be honest here, none of the lines were getting it done and that’s the real reason Geoff Ward was fired. There was no chemistry anywhere In the line up because they went with the stupid 3 pairs thing for too long. Players may like Gaudreau and Monahan may have been producing, but it was all on the powerplay, not 5 on 5 and that was a huge problem because once the powerplay dried up, they couldn’t score enough to win.
Only now in the last 15 games or so has the even strength scoring been up to par. Too bad they didn’t change up the lines earlier because they basically had no margin for error by the time they did. Just two extra wins and this team probably would be on track for 4th place.