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Originally Posted by HighLifeMan
Maybe, but that's a roster wide problem. We have two playmakers on this roster (upfront) and they play together (Gaudreau/Tkachuk).
Mangiapane - Monahan - Dube have also seen extremely limited time together (25 minutes) and had incredible results.
Stapling Monahan to Lucic and or Lewis isn't going to work and we have seen that over and over.
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It's also why lots of people have been calling for Matthew Phillips to get called up.
He fits the role of playmaker for our bottom 6.
In terms of Monahan himself...he hasn't had a good season but a lot of that has been shooting percentage driven.
Also
Monahan without Lewis: 54.4% xGF%, 5.21% On Ice Shooting, .915 save percentage
Monahan with Lewis: 42.3% xGF%, 3.33% On-Ice Shooting, .922 save percentage
Lewis without Monahan: 49.2% xGF%, 7.2% On-Ice Shooting, .926 save percentage
Team without Monahan or Lewis: 58.4% xGF%, 9.4% On-Ice Shooting, .934 save percentage
So in terms of the xGF rate Monahan Monahan isn't that far off the pace from the rest of the team. It's the finishing and save percentage that have been much worse with him on the ice. But I'm not sure how much of that is his fault as the xGF and xGA rates don't indicate he is generating substantially fewer quality chances or giving up more high danger chances