Monahan is skilled players and does somethings quite well- offensive positioning is strong, ability to see the see the game is strong, his shot is still fine, he still makes good passes. It's not all bad. He's clearly the most talented player on the fourth line and doesn't look out of sorts on the third line either.
So what's the problem? I actually think it's primarily battle level and compete. He loses a lot of 50-50 battles, he's easy to knock off the puck and doesn't try to get it back, he's weak on the backcheck as he doesn't finish checks, doesn't generate a lot of takeaways etc.
To me, that's fixable. There is no reason Monahan can't be a quality 3C or 4C in this league going forward.
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