[SebC]

Originally Posted by GranteedEV

[stats]

Spoiler!

Five on five? Among the group of players in the league with 300+ 5-on-5 minutes played, here are where Flames forwards rank in 5v5points/60 minutes:

1st Line Production (Top 93)
Gaudreau - 2.65 (16th)
Monahan - 2.44 (31st)
Bennett - 2.19 (57th)

2nd Line Production (top 186)
Jankowski - 1.97 (94th)
Ferland - 1.87 (115th)
Tkachuk - 1.58 (161st)
Backlund - 1.49 (173rd)

3rd Line Production (top 279)
(!!!!!!!!!!!) Brouwer - 1.14 (227th)
Frolik - 1.04 (242nd)

Jagr missed the ice time cutoff, but his 1.74 P/60 would rank around 2nd line production and Hathaway, in a small sample size, is the 5th most productive player in the league at 3.12 P/60 (...unsustainable, but that's okay)

Interesting. By the eye test, I've been thinking the Jankowski line might be our 2nd line - and these stats would support giving them that kind of utilization and making the Backlund line a classic shutdown third line.