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Q: It seems like you two are inseparable. Do you ever get sick of each other?

We don’t get sick of each other. We give each other a hard time sometimes, but we’re good friends. It’s fun. When we come to the rink or if we’re away from the rink, we’re hanging out all the time. We’re good friends, and I think that carries over onto the ice. You want to help each other and help each other be better. We’re always pushing each other, and I think that relationship benefits the team. We give it to each other — if Johnny had an open net and hit the post, I’d be all over him for months and still talking about it. We have fun. We play cards on the plane and text almost every day. I’m trying to convince him to get a dog now too, so we can go to the dog park together.

Q: What might people not know about youoff-the-ice?

I like to have fun, and I like to laugh. Everyone thinks I’m really serious and boring and monotone. I think my voice is monotone . . . but I like to have fun. I like to lay low.

Q: There’s nothing that shows you’ve made it like a mock Twitter account. So @BoringSeanMonahan, were you offended by that?

Oh no, I wasn’t offended by it. I think it’s funny. I think it goes with the way I talk. I mean, I have a monotone voice. I know that. I think that Twitter account, whoever does it, does a great job. But, yeah, I’m definitely not offended by it.

Q: When you think about your first year as a centreman in the NHL, what was the biggest learning curve for you?

I think the speed of the game. As a centreman, you have to be all over the ice. There are so many smart players. When you get the puck in your own zone with a breakout, you don’t have much time. When you come out of junior, it feels like you have all day. And the compete level in the circle. You come from junior and you go on the face-off dot, and you know you’re going to go about 80 per cent every time. You come into the NHL, and that is some guy’s job — just to win face-offs — so that was a huge difference. It’s an everyday league, and you have to show up every night or you’re going to get embarrassed.