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Originally Posted by Bingo
Not to my recollection.
The old 3M line to start the year, then the Backlund as a winger experiment that had Lindholm centering the duo.
All told the three of them had 351 five on five minutes together out of Backlund's 984.
Basically 1/3 of the season.
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Well, kind of. A few remarks. Firstly, I took a quick check on
https://frozenpool.dobbersports.com/...ikael-backlund
and it confirms that the top linemates for Backlund were 88 and 19. Overall, as well as in the first, third and fourth quarters. Frolik was buried early
Other things - changes on the fly, coach shaking things up, different lineups for last minute situations, double shifting a guy on another line, penalties, games missed, etc. eat in to the time that a specific set of 3 players share ice time so that ~1/3 is arguably understated. Often you see regular lines documented around that 40-50 percent of ice time
It’s not like they were a line for only 1/3 of the games, everyone knows that
And yeah, that Backlund as a winger experiment - we all remember that - it was such a bad decision