Great insight into Monahan. I was feeling there was something about him lately more than just riding Johnny's streak, and I think you nailed it. He's more aggressive and hardnosed into the dirty areas and seems to be opening up his own room now which only helps him getting fed the puck even more.
Can't even be angry at the loss. You can't win them all and in the past couple weeks the Flames have played toe to toe with the Pens and the Caps and not looked out of place. I don't want to say they are in that league of team yet, but I don't think calling this team a bubble team is correct anymore, they feel like they've made that jump to a bona-fide playoff team. Using Burke's analogy feels like they've stopped walking and broken into a jog.
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