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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I still don't want to trade Monahan! If we trade Tkachuk we definitely don't need to in order to acquire Eichel. If Tkachuk is staying we might need to for salary purposes, but IMO trading him shouldn't just be some off handed thing we need to accomplish. Especially with how he started last season. People are quick to forget, but he looked awesome in the first 10-15 games.
First 15 GP 2G 10A 12P 0.8ppg
Actually, looking at it, he seemed to be doing fairly consistently until about game 26 ( 7G 13A 20 points 0.77ppg) - he had started shooting more after a slow goal scoring start but his overall ppg was consistent. This game was against Montreal on March 13th, he had 2goals.
Then he started to slide. Went 5 straight games without a point, only had 3 assists in the next 13 games, and only put up 8 total points in the remaining 24 games (3 of which came in another game against *Montreal* on April 23rd.) Discounting that one game he put up 5 points in 23 games. Abysmal.
So perhaps he got injured again or tweeked the injury in that March 13th game?
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Isn’t that about where the team bottomed out and he got moved to the 2nd line?