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Originally Posted by ComixZone
Uh, he’s carrying Lucic up and down the ice every night right now. That is the heaviest lifting possible on this team.
He’s certainly not producing enough for a $10.5M winger, but he is producing enough and playing well enough for a $5.9M player.
We all just have to hope that the team addresses the roster problems up front next year and we’re not paying a guy $10.5M to put up 60 points while playing with a 4th winger. We need to add another top-tier player up front. It’s an absolute must.
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Playing with Lucic has been a more recent development, and ironically, it actually seems to have helped his production, but that line has only been together for 8 games. He played more time with Lindholm and Toffoli (27 games), a combination that was 91st in expected goals for. When Dube was put on that line, it moved up to 32nd.
Somewhat unexpected, but the best line in the NHL, by a good margin, when it comes to expected goals for and against, is the Mangiapane-Backlund-Coleman line. Ruzicka-Backlund-Coleman is 9th.
https://moneypuck.com/lines.htm