I’m not convinced that Monahan wouldn’t be a good *cheap* pickup who can then be sold for cheap at least next TDL. If he’s had injury and personality issues that’s not something we are unfamiliar with — consider Gallagher and Anderson with their injury problems and Drouin with his everything problems.
In that light Monahan seems like a high-upside move.
But I’m also not convinced that Calgary would value Dvorak much at all either. It’s a shame we didn’t get to see him play under MSL so far — maybe it would’ve gone better for his valuation.
I would think that if Calgary was presented with the option to have Dvorak or Monahan, they would take Dvorak 10 times out of 10. I watch a ton of flames hockey and Monahan is invisible, he’s been playing in the bottom six, the flames went out and got Toffoli to help him out, still hasn’t done anything. He’s slow and he’s definitely in Sutters doghouse.
He has a ton of miles on his body as he came into the NHL as an 18-year-old, he hasn’t played particularly good hockey for a number of years now because of injuries. Hoping he bounces back in Montreal where we are focussing on being a speed team, I don’t think it’s going to bode well. Also, we don’t have the centres that can insulate Monahan, where he would be brought in as insulation to our young centres.