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Originally Posted by GioforPM
IIRC Monahan's numbers actually reflected that he did OK on possession except with a couple of particular wingers. He had positive numbers except in the Pitlick/Dube, Lucic/Toffoli and Lewis Richardson combos. And I don't think Sutter gave him good wingers at all - it was mostly a diet of Lewis, Pitlick, Ritchie, Lucic and Richardson especially to start. I thought that when Toffoli came, they looked OK with Dube, despite the fact Monahan was clearly hurt, and he had fantastic numbers with Mangiapane/Dube.
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I see where you're coming from. Yes, Monahan has better underlying numbers than I expected. However I have a hard time simply blaming his wingers. I thought that Lucic - Ruzicka - Lewis was a great line that outscored the opposition 5-2 in 95 mins; meanwhile, Lucic - Monahan - Lewis got outscored 2-7 in 118 mins.
After looking at the numbers it does seem as though Monahan had success when playing with Gaudreau - Tkachuk, and Dube - Mangiapane though with a very small sample size.
I still have a very difficult time in seeing Monahan as a 20 goal scorer next season. If Sutter used him this way in the previous season, why would he change Monahan's role now?