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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
I wish it were that simple but he was nearly just as bad under the previous coaching staff. The only difference was that he was still being spoon fed top 6 deployment with highly talented players to boost his point totals somewhat.
It's not deployment that is causing this nosedive - if that were the case wouldn't he still have racked up PP points while on PP1 for the bulk of the first half of the year and then PP2 until recently? The player was just never that good to begin with and as we've seen many times before, took a massive nosedive once the league figured out how vanilla his game was and how to shut it down.
Injuries surely contributed to this all, but a quality player would still find a way to be semi productive on special teams.
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Trust me. I’ve been beating this drum for a long time. I’ve never been a Monahan guy. I actually wanted Bo Horvat instead. I remember watching these 2 compete in the 2015 playoffs and I was shocked at how much I liked Horvat’s game over Monahan’s.
But I simply cannot question his compete or effort this season. He’s working hard out there. He just doesn’t have the skillset for this kind of style. He’s a “half court” offensive style player who’s more suited to be a powerplay specialist than a guy who has to relentlessly check for his chances or play in the guts of the game. It’s just not in his DNA.