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Originally Posted by Bingo
For sure.
And if you knew Monahan was heading for two injury filled seasons after the team won the West, and that Gaudreau would slip sharply in production due to Monahan's health and the league figuring him out you would have been ahead of the curve (and ahead of Treliving) in asset management.
I certainly wasn't.
I didn't like the Avalanche playoff series, and worried about the stones of the team's top players in crunch time, but I didn't think they'd fall off the face of the Earth as regular season players.
If you were on the case, take a bow though, because moving both of them then would have been pretty sharp.
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Yeah this whole idea that it was clear we needed to move on from Gaudreau and Monahan after the 18-19 season is hindsight.
Even the playoffs were not entirely their fault, and their individual numbers weren't that bad. Here are Gaudreau and Monahan's numbers together at 5v5 that season.
Regular Season:
Corsi: 53.8%
xGF%: 53.1%
GF: 63
GA: 49
GF%: 56.3%
Playoffs:
Corsi: 51.4%
xGF%: 45.3%
GF: 2
GA: 1
GF%: 66.7%
We were outscored 6-2 at 5v5 when they weren't on the ice that playoffs. Big issue that playoff series was how passive we played, and Mackinnon just feasted on us.
Everybody was frustrated with the way that playoff series went, and I think we all wished we had a Nathan Mackinnon, but I don't think it was as cut and dry as people want to think that we should have moved on from Gaudreau and Monahan.