[Signing] Monahan signs with CBJ (5 yrs, $5.5 mil AAV)

[Scornfire]

Literally everyone on this forum could tell he was playing hurt multiple times throughout his career and the Training Staff allowed it. The early 20s kid who's being bandied about as a future Captain is GOING TO PLAY if they allow him, the adults in the room failed him, period

[PepsiFree]

Monahan had two rough seasons due to injuries in his entire career, but put up 59 points last season while playing more games than 99% of other NHLers. He’ll be 30 to start the season and be a FA again at 34 going on 35.

I’m not sure there’s a ton to point to this being a big risk or a boat anchor for Columbus. There’s nothing that suggests his next five seasons are going to look more like 2022-23 than 2023-24, and at 5.5 he only has to produce on average around 50 points to be worth the contract.

Something he’s paced close to or above for 9 of the last 10 seasons.

[Bandwagon Surfer]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

The metropolitan area of Columbus has more than 2,000,000 people. The area is quite bigger than Calgary.

But it is a very unsafe city, even by US standards.

For professional athletes (at least the high paid ones), I do not think it is a big deal.

The open secret is that the US as a whole is a violence ridden ####hole. The only places in the world even comparable to them for gun violence are active war zones and failed states. You hear about their cities in the news, but rural areas and small towns are even worse with murder rates multi times that of even the worst cities.

But that is the average, there are many quite nices places too. These are the places tourists visit, and where people with money live. These places are quite nice to live in, and you just learn to avoid the rest (especially if are a visible minority). You pay for the nice hospitals, you pay for your kids to go to private schools, the police even give you special treatment. So with money, even in Columbus, it will be a great place to live.

[tripin_billie]

Edit: TL;Dr, Columbus is a perfectly fine city and when I lived there, never felt any more unsafe than Calgary or Vancouver.

[Bingo]

I was in Columbus a lot with my previous employer, but always downtown near Nationwide.

Never got the sense it was unsafe.

Did get the sense it was boring a hell!

Downtown reminded me of Calgary in the 90s before downtown became a busy place outside of work hours and on weekend.

[calumniate]

Which probably works for boring sean monahan

[blankall]

Originally Posted by tripin_billie

Edit: TL;Dr, Columbus is a perfectly fine city and when I lived there, never felt any more unsafe than Calgary or Vancouver.

As long as you don't get involved in gang violence, you're probably okay. It's like that in most US cities. The violent crime stats are HEAVILY occurring amongst gangs of young men in less advantaged communities. People aren't regularly getting gunned down in higher class subburbs in Chicago.

Even for crimes like robberies, the overall rate in the USA is about 40% higher, but those incidents are disproportionally occurring in those same disadvantaged neighbourhoods.

Even with gun crimes, once you take out gang related, domestic, and suicide related gun incidents, the difference between Canada and the USA is not all that great. The USA obviously has a problem with mass shootings, but on a per capita basis you have a pretty remote chance of getting caught up in one of those.

[D as in David]

Let's see what kind of sh1t show happens after Nov. 4th.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by D as in David

Let's see what kind of sh1t show happens after Nov. 4th.

I've been pretty bitter towards Gaudreau, but it will put a smile on my face if we see Gaudreau setting up Monahan again. Maybe it's because breaking up that pairing was the organizations decision (which was probably the correct one as Monahan could barely play for a couple of years). I guess the desire to see Monahan succeed again is outweighing the schadenfreude from seeing Gaudreau fail.

Plus I get the impression that they genuinely are good friends off the ice. Good to see Moneyhands happy.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by blankall

I've been pretty bitter towards Gaudreau, but it will put a smile on my face if we see Gaudreau setting up Monahan again. Maybe it's because breaking up that pairing was the organizations decision (which was probably the correct one as Monahan could barely play for a couple of years). I guess the desire to see Monahan succeed again is outweighing the schadenfreude from seeing Gaudreau fail.

Plus I get the impression that they genuinely are good friends off the ice. Good to see Moneyhands happy.

My post was concerning the date of the U.S. election. Who knows, more players may take Canadian teams off their no-trade lists. Doubtful that will happen, though.

[Goriders]

Good for Monahan. I thought his career was over when he left the Flames

[Snuffleupagus]

Originally Posted by chemgear

Doesn't the city have a horrifically massive gun and crime problem?

EDIT: Their population looks to be substantially lower than Calgary (0.9 versus 1.3 million) but crazy higher murders. Like triple digits versus 20ish in Calgary per year.

Hell, 4 suspects sent 10 other people to the hospital with gun wounds in one mass shooting just a few days ago.

That's a hell of a polished turd "gem".

You missed the part where I said "If the city of Columbus was in Canada" name me one large US city that doesn't have those problems

[BigThief]

1g 3 assists for Monahan last night. 19 points in 19 games for our boy Sean

[Erick Estrada]

Good to see him playing well.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by BigThief

1g 3 assists for Monahan last night. 19 points in 19 games for our boy Sean

He should have stayed a Flame. The Kadri/Monahan sequence was bad from day one. Kadri has played pretty well

[cracher]

Originally Posted by tripin_billie

Edit: TL;Dr, Columbus is a perfectly fine city and when I lived there, never felt any more unsafe than Calgary or Vancouver.

Agree. Kent State alumni here, spent a good amount of time in 3rd and 4th year in Columbus. Was not flush with cash as a student and still never felt unsafe. Certainly, I was aware of the areas I should not go to and that was more than enough.

Spent a good chunk of my adult life in the midwest/east. If you're not looking for it, you're gonna be ok.

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by Bonded

He should have stayed a Flame. The Kadri/Monahan sequence was bad from day one. Kadri has played pretty well

I love Monaghan. May be my favorite Flame in a long time. This was the right move. He was not playing well due to injury. Kadri was coming off of a cup win.

Brad gets smashed for the trade but it was the right move at the time, if a bit expensive. He was going all in and this is what that looks like. These things can't be assessed with current knowledge. We can look at how it worked out, but we have to assess the decision at the time with the facts available at the time.

I am super happy for the resurgence in his career and that he has been able to stay happy. I was super pumped he went to CBJ and I will not go into that any further other than to say I am super happy he can be there to be an awesome Uncle Sean.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Titan2

I love Monaghan. May be my favorite Flame in a long time. This was the right move. He was not playing well due to injury. Kadri was coming off of a cup win.

Brad gets smashed for the trade but it was the right move at the time, if a bit expensive. He was going all in and this is what that looks like. These things can't be assessed with current knowledge. We can look at how it worked out, but we have to assess the decision at the time with the facts available at the time.

I am super happy for the resurgence in his career and that he has been able to stay happy. I was super pumped he went to CBJ and I will not go into that any further other than to say I am super happy he can be there to be an awesome Uncle Sean.

Yeah, Moynahan was great! A big team favourite! I know its Monahan.

[Bonded]

Originally Posted by Titan2

I love Monaghan. May be my favorite Flame in a long time. This was the right move. He was not playing well due to injury. Kadri was coming off of a cup win.
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I disagree. It was a continuation of signing older players to contracts that will bite them. Brouwer to Neal to Lucic to having to dump a player because of his bad UFA signings. It isn't even a hindsight thing for me. Moanhan could be retired and I still wouldn't like it.

[Shazam]

They should still be here.

* starts crying *