Sean Monahan

This kid shot, you know, Cole Regney out of North Dakota and, Another guy who might be turning pro in the spring.

He's drawn comparisons very favorably to Sean Monahan.

Please be ecstatic about that.

They have a lot of, a lot of guys like that, that if things break positively, they could turn into guys that resemble the pieces they had about 10 years ago when they were going through this the last time.

Matthew Nyes gets a lot of rope, but he's been a bit of a ghost the last couple games after a strong start.

Sean Monahan looks like his legs have gone and his arms have gone.

Whatever else has been injured all these years.

There's a lot of underperformance.

But the problem is he's just, I think it's limited their offensive ability.

and combined with, you know, the personnel decisions, you know, the Marchenko trade, even trading someone like Chinnikov, not utilizing Voronkov well at all, scratching him, they're probably going to trade him, you know.

That second line has just been, whatever line Monahan centered for the last, like, however many games has really been bad.

And, like, I just, I don't see how bonus is going to change his system or his philosophy to give them more, to increase the offensive ceiling enough to where they can go on a win streak that isn't shooting

I mean, let's hypothesize here a little bit.

If, if Wierenski had three goals instead of zero, if Fantilli had four instead of two, if Garland had one or two, if Monahan and Nachushkin had a couple each, I think we'd be talking about a different situation now.

With those players scoring, we're looking at a 5-3 record instead of a 3-5 record, if you ask me.

And this is a cap team, by the way.

So in summary, a proposed trade would be Zach Wierenski and Conor Garland for a bad contract, short bad contract, two prospects, and a number one draft pick.

Something like that.

What else you go to Sean Monahan? He seems like a, a smart, reasonable guy.

Surely he sees that this team is not going anywhere and he's getting older.

For Celebrini, he scores his fourth overtime goal.

That ties Ilya Kovalchuk and the Moose Sean Monahan for the most by an NHL player 20 years or younger.

So he continues to get it done, and he continues to get it done against the Canadians as well.

Three or more points for the third straight game against Montreal, dating back to last season.

It's not like two teams that are like, oh, yeah, we're so much better than you guys.

Yeah, we might finish like six points higher at the end of the season.

right

and like but it's not you know it's there's a very real chance that um you know both teams have a three in the standings they're like 30 31 32 right somewhere in there i would not be too shocked by that unless like levy mariline and continues this amazing run the rest of the season but i have my doubts about

that yeah no that's fair that's totally fair so yeah yeah interesting stuff but about the being favorites and i like what you said about being upset not being upset um yeah i don't want to jump the gun here no let's maybe let's go at least cursory look through the games then i'll ask you what i was going to ask you for sure for sure um yeah anything so

yeah i mean we there was the islanders game um you know this one again they made it they made this one interesting right um and this is all like honestly all three of the games this week were interesting the cox got outplayed fairly handily in all three of them right especially if you just look at the shot counters 38 26 39 18 35 14. so 35 plus shots against every single game that's probably not something a coach loves to see yeah but Again, I'm not super surprised with the lineup the Canucks are trotting out there.

And I think he was fine.

Had a couple actually really good saves.

If I was putting up points, our record, our team's record would be better.

We might have made the playoffs if me and Sean Monahan, if we had been playing how we should have been playing.

So I felt really bad.

But something was just off last season.

You'd love to see it go that way, but we see all the time guys hit a rookie wall, where it's like, you might just need a reset.

I think about Sean Monahan's rookie year.

I think about a lot of first-year players that are very good and turn into great players.

They still sometimes need a reset.