Isn't it kind of weird to go to "5v5 Goals/60" to look at the PK specialist who will play limited, but very effective 5v5 minutes, as well as the (stop me if you've heard THIS one before) 10 game sample size of someone scoring a lot and someone not scoring alot? Cause like, yeah when you f***ing take the 1st line C's worst season in recent history and sort by how many goals he's getting in his elevated role it's gonna look bad. Cant include last year when Monahan had a 3.9 EV GF/60 compared to 2.9 from Bennett, or the year before that when Monahan only was behind Lomberg (sample size warning) with a 3.7, while Bennett had 1.8. A year before that it's a bit closer with Monahan at a 2.7 with Bennett still resting at 1.8. So on and so forth. Is this a clear picture that
This team isn't lacking depth. It's not lacking talent either. It's simply choosing to shoot itself in the foot with its loyalty to Sean Monahan.
No. It isn't. This goes out to all the Bennett apologists: You cannot continually point to 10 games of the season where he shows up to define him as a 1C. Cool, he can get up for important games. That doesn't mean he has earned anything through the grind of a 82 game season where he continually fails to produce at anything beyond Excuses/60 for his lack of production. I love him and feel he has more in him but this "Monahan is trash" narrative needs to get out of here.