The 2018-19 season offered Julius Honka plenty of chances to be resentful or bitter, angry or annoyed.
The former first-round pick and Stars defenseman could have been turned off by being a healthy scratch in the final four months of the season, having not played a game after Jan. 15. He could have sulked when the Stars acquired Jamie Oleksiak to man the blue line, or when Dallas traded for Ben Lovejoy. When Honka sank below Taylor Fedun and Joel Hanley and Gavin Bayreuther and Dillon Heatherington on the depth chart, he could have pouted.
But Honka didn't turn negative.