Nov 02, 2025
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Monahan scored his first goal of the season in the Blue Jackets' 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blue Jackets on Saturday.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Sean Monahan was one of the NHL's most consistent scorers in his 13-year career, so no one was too concerned when the Columbus Blue Jackets center dropped points throughout the first month of the season.
But that doesn't mean Monahan hasn't wondered when that might happen.
Monanan's biggest goal of the season is to play electric power in the middle of the season, as important as the blue jersey on Saturday before Mystery Day.
Zach Werenski added a goal and an assist, Charlie Coyle had a goal and goaltender Jett Greaves made 17 of 37 saves in the third quarter as the Blue Jackets won their fourth straight game and sixth in seven games dating back to mid-October.
"I mean, you think about it a little bit," Monahan said."But at the end of the day, we're on a winning streak, and you, I've said it many times, when you win games in this league, life is usually better, so it's something you can't stress about.
"But, yeah, yeah, it was nice to get one there and win this time."
Werenski fired one of his patented tricky wrist shots in on Blues goaltender Joel Hofer, and Hofer — like many netminders before him — had trouble getting a clean read on the shot, and he momentarily lost sight of it after he made the initial save.
Monaghan came up behind him and scored the puck, one of the easiest goals of his career.
“It was just a matter of time, right?”said Werensky."He's so talented and his line is so good. It's just... yeah. I'm happy to see him score tonight."
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The goal at 5:07 of the third gave the Blue Jackets a 3-1 lead.If they thought the lead was properly insured, they were wrong.The Blues, who were expected to be competitive this year, pulled off one of the NHL's biggest upsets and carried a six-game skid (0-4-2) into the game.
Of course, they were going to make a big push.The Blues pulled within 3-2 at 9:48 of the third and spent the rest of the period pinning the Blue Jackets to their side and scoring the tying goal.
"We had to hang around a little bit," Blue Jackets coach Dean Evason said."Teams have to push, which they did, and we didn't like how passive we were at the end. We just let it come to us, so we have to correct some of that."
Graves is not passive.He remained what was a remarkable transformation in network for the Blue Jackets this season, with grieves and Elvis Curts ļzhins alternating starts and each made - without exception - outs that gave the jackets an opportunity to win.
With 6:33 left, Greaves denied Blues wing Matthew Joseph on a breakaway that would have tied the score.With less than four minutes remaining, he got a play off a clean shot that was deflected by winger Pavel Buchnevich.
Greaves (3-3-0) now has a .916 save percentage.Merzļikins (4-1-0), who is expected to hit the road Sunday night against the New York Islanders, has a .915 save percentage.Together, they have given the Blue Jackets a tandem that is the best in the league so far this season.
"I feel like every night they give us a chance to win, no problem," Werentek said."And it's a lot of fun playing against them."
"You can talk about it, but I feel like they feed off each other and push each other and encourage each other, and it's really fun to watch in the room. I'm so proud of these two."
The Blues took a 1-0 lead with just 3:37 to play, but the Jetcats didn't last long.Charlie Coyle, who had four assists in Wednesday's 6-3 win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, answered just 1:01 later to tie the score.
Werenski gave the Blue Jackets a 2-1 lead with 11:55 left and scored his fourth goal of the season.It was the third straight game in which Werensky had a goal and an assist.
Then, early in the third, it was Monahan's turn.It was his 264th career goal and brought him 600 career points along with 336 assists.He was more excited about the win than the milestone, he said, but…
"It's really clear that I'm going to keep, and when I have a son, I'm going to put in his room. What I'm going to keep."
