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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
He’s been on the market for over a year now. Considering how rarely #1/2 Cs become available, if the rest of the league thought as highly of him as you do, another GM would have made a decent offer to the Treliving by now.
Monahan is good at sniping and average to poor at all the other things expected of an NHL centre. There was in interview with a director of player of personal for another team a year or so ago where he said Monahan is an extremely difficult player to evaluate because he doesn’t do most of the things NHL centres are expected to do - gaining entry, distributing the puck, back-checking, supporting the D down low.
Pre-swoon Monahan had less value than fans around here think because he was one-dimensional. Now that he isn’t even potting goals, he’s worth even less. He’s basically Mike Hoffman with health question marks.
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It's been rumored he's been on the market for a few years now and the reason he's not been moved is exactly how that director of player personnel put it. I just don't think he's valued around the league as much as we think he is as the rest of the league knows what he brings and it's not all that is expected of a top center. I'm sure there are plenty of teams that would gladly trade for him but at their price which would probably be very underwhelming to fans here and Treliving which is why he's still a Flame.