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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
He had good success with Crosby in the Olympics IIRC. During Iginla's time in Pittsburg he played with Malkin, on the left wing.
Bertuzzi didn't play with Iginla. Todd was 2nd line left wing behind Cammaleri
Drury put up typical Drury numbers in his one lone season in Calgary.
The only one you could make the case for is Jokinen IMO. They just didn't mesh.
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Yeah I would agree with basically all of this.
However I went back to my game files from 08/09 and for the first chunk of the season it was either Bertuzzi/Langkow/Iggy or Bertuzzi/Conroy/Iggy. The lines got reshuffled at some point likely due to a lack of production I would imagine.
I believe once the lines got settled they used Bertuzzi with Langkow and Bourque for the majority, meanwhile Cammy/Conroy/Iggy or sometimes Lombardi.
However they certainly tried Bertuzzi with Iggy and didn't seem to mesh either.
Also looking at the linemate statistics from his time with Pittsburgh he played with Crosby 29% of the time, so he had his opportunities to show some chemistry I would suggest. He definitely played with Malkin by the end though.