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Originally Posted by 1qqaaz
Well I don't even think Monahan is anywhere near deserving to be a healthy scratch. He has been disappointing, but he hasn't been that bad.
He doesn't need a message sent to him. He knows what's going on.
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This is it. He’s not where he was, he’s where he is, Sutter is asking him to centre a low production unit and grind out forechecking shifts. He uses that line to hem in the opposition late in periods, and as a unit they are pretty good at it. They just don’t use the middle of the ice where goals are scored very well.
Sutter does believe in his 3-2 league philosophy. Which is always going to translate to 1-2 goals from the top line and 1-2 from the rest. Do that, don’t mess up defensively, and he’s happy.