Quoting: GuyGuyGuy
Matthews just had the worst season of his career. Is he going downhill? Monahan was going downhill with the Flames, now he is getting better.
No **** he isn’t going back to his former glory. He was a ppg player. He is now a 55-60 pts C.
Monahan has a big role on the pk. He was just injured
Monahan is a huge leader
He was good with Montreal. He is with mtl now.
Health doesn’t matter when trying to compare 2 players. Is Haula better than injury prone Stone?
Ask the ****ing world who is better, they are gonna say Monahan
Btw he has another goal now
5 and a half minutes on the power play against: checks notes, Elvis Merzlikins, who was the worst goalie in hockey last year.
And the goal was scored by, checks notes: standing in front of the net uncovered and getting a tip. Is that supposed to move me?
You don't seem to be understanding that I'm not talking about a 1 year sample size. Almost every stat I've mentioned has been based on a HALF DECADE SAMPLE SIZE.
Monahan plays PK in montreal, that doesn't make him an effective PKer. Who else do they have to beat out?
Again he doesn't play PK over Hischier Haula Mcleod Lazar or Mercer in jersey.
He doesn't play PP over Hughes Hughes Hamilton Mercer Hischier Bratt Meier Holtz Toffoli. Maybe he can win that 10th spot tho over palat/haula and take the 30 seconds of PK time on the second unit after jack comes off. Oh wait, he won't because they'll want Haula out there to take faceoffs for that unit
The NHL world has something called free agency. Haula and Monahan were free to go out there and see what the world thought of them.
Haula got more money, more term, on a contender
Monahan got less money, a 1 year deal, on a bad team that doesn't even want to keep him.
The year before that:
Monahan was given away along with a 1st because nobody wanted him on his contract. Nobody would even take him along with a 2nd.
Haula was traded for Pavel Zacha.
Seems as though the hockey world has made it very clear who's more valued.
Comparable players who can't stay healthy are less valuable than players who can.
Stone is in a different tier than haula, so its an invalid comparison. But if you compare stone to the wingers in his tier, YES the injuries have an impact