Nice write-up on Elias in this ESPN article:
Strapped with a $29.1 million contract extension and a gig on the team's top line riding shotgun with Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan, Lindholm is currently loving his new life in his debut season with the Flames. What's particularly notable about his success is that most of his underlying numbers aren't actually all that different from his career norms, except for the fact that he's suddenly gone from being a below-average shooter to an elite one in the blink of an eye:
While he's not necessarily shooting more on a per-minute basis, he's a) shooting more overall because he's playing more total minutes, and he's b) shooting from better scoring areas because he's playing alongside a lethal finisher in Monahan and one of the best playmakers in the game in Gaudreau. The last part is the most fascinating theoretical point to consider, because we don't often think about how individual players and their presence on the ice influence the teammates they share the ice with from a geometrical spacing perspective.
http://www.espn.com/nhl/story/_/id/2...n-hayes-future