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Originally Posted by Glo Boyz
Can somebody find me that chart where it shows a players analytical performance measured on a graph. With the x-axis being labeled with: "first pairing" / "second pairing" / "third pairing"
I remember seeing Kris Russell's on HF and all of his stats (besides toi) lined up with a prototypical third pairing d.
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I'd be careful of those x-axis labels. While those charts are good to kind of give you an idea of which players go well together, they still operate in relatives, not absolutes. One thing going against Russell is how little PP he played, along with who his pairing mate was. The same sort of chart could be made of Brent Seabrook for instance:
But it just won't tell the whole story because there's no context. You can see the night-and-day difference in Russell's production when he was on the top PP unit VS when he was replaced by Diaz on the second PP unit just by his point production. But those charts don't show that part. Defensively the Russell-Wideman pairing might have had issues but that doesn't mean one or the other isn't a middle pairing Dman. It just means together they're not one of the top middle pairings in the league, but still better than a lot out there.