Was talking with someone about the Bruins offense from the back-end if Krug walked. While doing some digging into the numbers, I was surprised to see how good McAvoy was offensive at 5v5. Over the last 3 years, McAvoy ranks 1st among Bruins d-men at 5v5 production
McAvoy - 184 GP / 69 PTS
Krug - 201 GP / 58 PTS
Chara - 203 GP / 43 PTS
Grzelyck - 195 GP / 32 PTS
Carlo - 215 GP / 28 PTS
To take it one step further though, McAvoy ranks T-18th among all NHL d-men in 5v5 scoring over the last 3 seasons. Now you'd think naturally that if he's good 5v5 that he'd be good on the PP...oddly enough he has some of the worst per 60 rates of the leading PP d-men for Boston. Now some of that could have been because he was snake bitten to start the season and maybe some is because the level of talent on PP2 vs PP1 is night and day.
If Krug walked I'd be curious to see what they do on PP1. Do they go to Grz, who've they've gone to before or do they turn the keys over to McAvoy? As it sits now, McAvoy has a P/GP that puts him around 41pts over an 82 games season. Krug gets on average 33pts on the PP a year. If McAvoy could give you even half of what Krug does on the PP, he'd finish an 82 games season with 50+ points.