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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm never going to make Monahan into more than he is.
But really he had two point blank chances against Toronto and another last night.
Two of those go and suddenly he's part of the secondary scoring story.
On the Flames little run (say 11 games) he's got a 66% xGF%.
He's playing pretty good hockey, not generating much, but getting better at not giving up much as well.
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Yeah, I pay attention to the advanced stats as well, the thing is Monahan is getting super cushy assignments. Hes not out there doing any sort of heavy lifting, he doesnt go up against the McDavids and hes completely sheltered with offensive zone starts.
It's great when the team is winning and as you said he isnt necessarily hurting the team but he is now our 4th line center. The third highest paid player on the team has 7 even strength points in 45 games and a team worst -13. It's quite telling when a league min rookie Ruzicka is about to easily out point him with 6 points in 14 games.
The fact is he is by far the weakest link on this team.