Anyone wanna run the percentages of defensemen that Malkin has played with out there?
He has about 600 minutes.
He's played about 100 minutes with Letang/Dumo and is +2
He's played 56 minutes with Dumo and is a -4 and 70 with Letang and is a -7.
He's played about 40 minutes with Johnson/Petterson and is a +1.
He's played 157 minutes with Johnson and is a -1 and 8 with Petterson and is -1
He's played 60 minutes with Maatta/Coughdrop and is -1
He's played 133 minutes with Maatta and is 0 and 36 minutes with Riikola and is -2.
51 minutes with Ruhwedel and -3, 19 minutes with Schultz and +1
Finally, 162 minutes with Oleksiak which is +4 (mostly Oleksiak-Maatta for +2)
That's all ES though. At 5v5, his numbers with Letang/Dumo drop to -1, with Dumo to -3 and with Letang to 0. The 15 minutes Malkin has spent with Letang at 4v4 or 3v3 (or other variation) account for half of his +/-. He's actually only a -3 at 5v5.
Current working hypothesis - keep Geno the **** away from overtime. In what I'm sure is complete coincidental news, Kessel goes from +7 to +1 when you go from ES to 5v5.