This is looking like an all time trade so far. Monahan looks great and they gave us a 1st rounder to take him. Incredible.
I'm super happy for Mony and his good start. He starts most seasons off like this, but the issue is durability. The sad part is that injuries will accumulate till the TDL. I hope not, but that's the issues we struggled with him in the past, especially his wrists.
Again, happy he's doing well and I hope this continues. But I think you guys will see by Christmas that the first is fair, not excessive.
Faceoffs were always something he was good at. Especially offensive zone faceoffs on the PP. He was high 60s on PP faceoffs one year. He used to be automatic in the slot before all the injuries too. He was a great guy, I hope he gets back to some semblance of what he used to be,
Yep, his face offs improved a ton after Lindholm and Ryan showed up from Carolina. Until his wrists goes to injury, he's solid. When they go, he's almost literally one handed "Mona hand".
I would not. I like him a lot. But we have to have long term picture in mind. He’s 28. He’s not old but not young either. If you can get another 1st in this years draft, you do it. If you sign him for 5 years, you have him from 29 to 34…
You can’t be swooned by it. Sometimes in a rebuild, you have to let good players and good people go and I think he’d be one of them especially if we can get a 1st.
I don't think you can get a first. The injury risk on him is still too high. I'd like to be proven wrong, but that's the sad part of Monahan. He didn't take care of his body well enough and his body is more like a 28 year old vs a 28 year old. If not for the injury woes, he'd probably still be a Flame.
I'm glad he's doing well for you guys and that you guys have fast skating wingers to put on his line so that he doesn't have to work as hard for simple plays. Maybe that will help him a lot in terms of ensuring he doesn't get injured as easily. Either way, I'm rooting for Mony's come back!
I'll definitely be following Habs games a lot closer this year just because of Monahan. I hope he does well.
Oh... and what a brilliant idea to put Monahan on the wing. Too bad Calgary didn't do that. The fan base has only been suggesting it ever since Lindholm became the #1 center.
??? Ward and Sutter did that on multiple occasions, then tried him as the 3C behind Backlund and Lindholm. One of the issues was that our bottom 6 guys were all slow which created problems with Monahan doing well down there. Montreal doesn't have this issue IIRC, so I think he doesn't have to compensate as much or work as hard to do simple plays.
Yeah works perfectly for us as well. Dach takes faceoffs on the right and Monohan takes them on the left.
We did this with Lindholm on our top line once upon a time and it worked great as far as face offs go. I'm certain this load balancing concept would work well for you guys as well.