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Originally Posted by Bingo
Factor for sure ... but I'm not saying anything contrary to that.
Both players play with good players, but when a bigger percentage comes from the powerplay you're not part of driving five on five play as much as playing on the league's best powerplay in this time period.
And Nugent Hopkins has played 605 minutes with McDavid and 570 with Draisaitl five on five in the last three years.
Not as much as Lindholm with Gaudreau and Tkachuk, but then he only had the top ten scorer Gaudreau and Tkachuk for one of those seasons.
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If you’re going to be fair about allotting so much credit to the players he has ice time with on the power play, then you have to also look at who he plays with 5 on 5. Nuge centers the 3rd line and has had all kinds of different wingers along the way. Lindholm is considered your top line center and has the best wingers on your team. The power play is part of the game, and if Hopkins is on a historic pp then he deserves some credit for it being historic. It’s 5 guys out there, not two. Without Hopkins I don’t think the power play is nearly as good. If the jerseys were reversed, this would be a totally different discussion.