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Originally Posted by GGG
Are there any McDavid effects there? Do the stars allow you to separate minutes played with McDavid and minutes without them for all players. These numbers appear to suggest that points were scored when he was on the ice but he didn’t get the conventional counting stats
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Here are his most common line mates last year:
Even Strength Line Combinations
Freq Line Combination
19.3 BRODZIAK,KYLE - KASSIAN,ZACK - LUCIC,MILAN
9.4 CHIASSON,ALEX - LUCIC,MILAN - NUGENT-HOPKINS,RYAN
5.4 LUCIC,MILAN - NUGENT-HOPKINS,RYAN - PULJUJARVI,JESSE
5.3 CAGGIULA,DRAKE - LUCIC,MILAN - STROME,RYAN
5.1 CAVE,COLBY - CURRIE,JOSH - LUCIC,MILAN
3.9 LUCIC,MILAN - MCDAVID,CONNOR - RATTIE,TY
3.7 DRAISAITL,LEON - LUCIC,MILAN - YAMAMOTO,KAILER
3.7 BRODZIAK,KYLE - CURRIE,JOSH - LUCIC,MILAN
3.4 CHIASSON,ALEX - DRAISAITL,LEON - LUCIC,MILAN
3.2 LUCIC,MILAN - PULJUJARVI,JESSE - STROME,RYAN
So Lucic helped drive play while playing without McDavid. Nuge is really good, but even then he spent more time with Brodziak than he did with Nuge.
So while he helped drive play, I can certainly understand why there was no production given the players he was with for most of the year.