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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Please point to all those posts. What I do is try and move from narrative to actual game analysis in a PGT. Go rewatch that game and tell me that it was Monahan (and his line) that was the reason they lost. Or even the reason the powerplay failed.
Last night 19, 4 and 55 were issues. Even though 55 scored (and 4 picked up an assist). That pairing struggled, so did Zadorov and Gudbranson on transition. And Tkachuk could not hit the net to save his life (except with his face).
ETA: I'm perfectly happy if they could manage to move Monahan. But his season performance and his salary have zippo to do with the game.
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Too much emphasis placed on individual plays and who is to blame for a goal. In a game where team only scored once.
Monahan is being asked to play very low event hockey, which is understandable. He's not good enough to be a shutdown guy, and since his production has dried up, no surprise he has the worst plus/minus on the team.
Flames could use secondary scoring. Monahan isn't giving them any. So yeah, sometimes when they lose it's because a player like Monahan doesn't generate any offense.
You can't blame losses on one player but unfortunately Monahan deserves his criticism. He's just not contributing right now, even if he did make a nice play stripping the puck in the game.
