Examples of chemistry between players transferring from other leagues to the NHL

[Snippit]

It's very common to hear fans wanting to acquire certain players that had chemistry with one of the players on their team in a previous league, like junior or the NCAA (I.e. I've seen in the past several Leafs fans make proposal

Are there any instances of this chemistry translating to the NHL? I recognize that there probably aren't too many cases where two players with chemistry in a different league ended up on the same NHL team, but I still wonder if it's ever even happened.

On the Sabres, the jury is out on whether or not Eichel plays better when he's with Evan Rodrigues - I'm personally not sold that the chemistry has translated.

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[NyQuil]

San Jose drafted centre Ray Whitney to go along with their future superstar winger and junior linemate Pat Falloon.

 

[Perfect_Drug]

San Jose drafted centre Ray Whitney to go along with their future superstar winger and junior linemate Pat Falloon.

FAT BALLOON!

 

[Habsfann]

Levavalier and Richards played together for Rimouski then with TB. While they were both centers they def played a lot on the pp together

 

[sharkhawk]

The Stastny brothers are a great example of this.

 

[glovesave_35]

I doubt it happens all that often. It seems rare that linemates from junior end up on the same NHL team in the first place. I reckon that two NHL players who played well together in junior probably did so because they were both just really good, rather than having some sort of special chemistry.

 

[boyko10]

Lehterä & Tarasenko did good for a while.

 

[MaxV]

Makarov and Larionov in 1994. People often forget that season, but they led a #8 seed Sharks to an upset over SC favorite Red Wings.

Obviously, later Larionov had good chemistry with former CSKA teammates Fetisov and Fedorov (maybe Konstantinov also, I think they played briefly together also).