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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
That's easily debunked by Duclair and Bennet having by far their career seasons playing with Huberdeau.
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Bennett went from 0.690 PPG with Huberdeau to 0.635 PPG without. It's not a very remarkable decrease and could easily be seasonal variation. Duclair's difference is a little greater (0.606 from before to 0.743 with), which I don't think is substantial enough to debunk anything I said.
The argument is that Huberdeau needs to have lines created around him and players need to elevate him to have success, not that the other players on the line won't have modest gains as a result. Obviously if one player is doing really well on the line, there will be scraps to be picked up by the others. But we're not talking superstar levels of increases here.