I have gone over his numbers a lot as well, the main sign of optimism I see is the Josh Anderson factor. His numbers away from Anderson aren't awfully bad considering the team, still not great defensively but overall looks a bit more respectable whereas Andersons' numbers are awful with or away from Sean.
The problem is that it is frustrating that we are even having to do these gymnastics trying to find positives after we spent a 1st round pick in a trade, with that level of asset the reason to give up that much should be obvious like it was with Stastny and even Hayes for that matter.
Lots of revisionist history here with stastny and Hayes also. Ppl weren’t that happy about them, likely the ppl bitching now about giving up a 1st now were bitching then. I think shock was with stastny, cuz he was off the board. Hayes was similar, Hayes tho gets shit on cuz Maurice decided he didn’t like him in the top 6 eventho dude is a legit top 6 guy and was pacing at that . No logical reason to put him on the 4th.
I’m not sure tho why these guys all need to be compared. Monahan brings what he brings to the perfetti and Ehlers tandem. How many 2 centers were actually available. GM seems to think the one he got was the best fit. I’ll bet another center goes but I’ll bet he goes to a US team.
Of the available centers, 2 were traded from a cdn team to another cdn team. The top 2 available cuz reality is most the guys ppl talk about, they don’t want to be here. Canada is on every NTC even Vancouver and Toronto and Montreal
And there are 25 percent of them in the league this year, 25 percent on elcs also roughly, which leaves 50 percent of players actually available to cdn teams. There’s a topic on the main boards about this. It’s seriously f***ing us and most cdn teams over.