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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
...if Monahan ever scores 40+ it will be on Gaudreau's coattails...
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Good god. Stop it.
I am getting tired of seeing this and responding to it in perpetuity. Monahan is on his own an excellent hockey player. He is a goal scoring machine with and without Gaudreu on his wing—we have all seen this in the few times it has happened. But perhaps more to the point, the discussion about Gaudreau's dependency on Monahan is something that does not occur often enough: Last year when Monahan was shut down Gaudreau's production fell off a cliff. It literally plummeted.
The point is not that one player is miles better than the other. The point is that both Monahan and Gaudreau are great players—both in their own right. Both are fortunate to have one another, because of how much they both help each other.
In short, if Monahan does score 40 goals it will be because he is one of the best goal scorers in the entire NHL. Full stop.