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Originally Posted by djsFlames
Monahan played these playoffs with a broken thumb.
Said openly his confidence was running very low and was hoping to pull out of it.
It wasn't just Monahan not being able to be at elite, dominating levels that lost the flames the series, it was a fully team effort/collapse. So if you write him off for that you should write others of this 2nd place overall team off as well.
But you won't because it was a 2nd place team at the end of the day, and a team in that position has potential.
We were not showing that potential in the final 3 weeks of hockey, it's as straight forward as that. Healthy, confident Monahan wouldn't have prevented that lost series, because everyone else dropped the ball also. It's a ridiculous scapegoating. If the team as a whole was playing their better hockey we would've not been so rattled by their adjustment and probably ousted the avs as quickly as they did us.
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He said he was healthy though?