[bigrangy]

He’s skating fine, but his upper body strength is gone.

Watch him tonight, and watch when he has the puck on his stick. He gets muscled off the puck almost without effort.

Monahan used to be exceptional at recovering loose pucks and getting them to a teammate, but now when he gets the puck he’s a simple stick check and the puck is going the other way. I’m not sure what metrics the team physicians are targeting in their recovery plan but whatever they’re doing isn’t working. A better management group would have him on LTIR right now working on building strength.