The silver lining is sometimes difficult to pick out after a loss like Friday’s.
But for Sean Monahan, there was a glass-half-full aspect of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ 4-1 dumping of the Calgary Flames, in that he managed to keep his point streak alive.
At the moment, his nine-game point streak is one of the longest standing sprees in the National Hockey League other than Artem Anisimov, who was looking to extend his 11-game streak on Saturday against the St. Louis Blues, while Claude Giroux’s 10-game streak ended with the Philadelphia Flyers’ 3-1 loss to the Dallas Stars.