I posted this in another thread, but I think it is relevant here to show just how much we need quality middle 6 wingers at the deadline...
Collectively, all of the players that regularly rotate through the bottom 6 have a 0.2 PPG average. Now I am using the Bottom 6 because we know how much rotation there is between the 3rd and 4th line that there are so few players we can say are consistently on either.
Prorate that out to an 82 game season, this is what our average bottom 6 player produces:
16.4 pts in an 82 game season, which would be 7.6g - 8.8a based on how their contribution aligns to their total point contribution
Compare that to our Top 3:
97.7 pts in an 82 game season, which would be 39.2g - 58.5a based on their collective contribution
Top 4-6 (only Krejci and Debrusk have been consistently in this group, so this is just them)
51.1 pts in an 82 game season, which would be 21.2g - 30a based on their collective contribution
That is way too much of a gap between our 1st and 2nd line and an even larger one between our 2nd and our bottom 6.
For reference, our Top 5(6) versus our Bottom 6 is as such:
Top 5(6) - 78.8 pts in an 82 game season, which is 31.9g - 46.9a
Bottom 6 - 16.4 pts in an 82 game season, which is 7.6g - 8.8a