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Originally Posted by dino7c
Yes they have benefited from playing with each other...they would have been short handed had the other player not been out there.
My frustration comes when people act like Monahan is barely an NHLer...everyone's favorite Sam Bennett did jack #### playing with Gaudreau, same with a countless cast of others. Its pretty silly to discount his entire career because he plays with another good player. What top scorer doesn't? I would argue both Gaudreau and Monahan have actually suffered not having a quality RWer to play with.
My Prediction is Monahan has 60+ points...here or elsewhere
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Man I wish I had your optimism. I really hope things work out that way. As for a RW, I thought they tried returning to Gaudreau - Monahan - Lindholm this season but it was a lot less effective than Gaudreau - Lindholm - Tkachuk. They were also skating with Tkachuk after being on the PK, that also didn't help generate much offense.
I don't think anyone thinks that Monahan is barely an NHLer. I think the trade value of Monahan comes from fans not being sure about him being a $6.375M player in the next two seasons. For example Lindholm is arguably the most valuable forward on the team, but if he was paid $10M a season instead of about 5 he would have a lot less value in trade.