Not surprised at all about Johansen/Foligno, but am a little with Anisimov/Horton.
The stat shows that both Horton and Jenner had more scoring opportunities with Anisimov than with Joey. Though I can't remember seeing those guys playing with Anisimov, it had to be >150 minutes to fit into Coach's study. Here's the section that pretty much covers my point:
"Below is a list of all forward combinations who played more than 150 minutes together (to root out some of the sample size issues). This gives us a good idea of forward combinations that work, and forward combinations that don’t. Below is the list, ordered from best to worst, with the positive combinations in green, the combinations that basically break even in yellow, and the negative combinations in red.
Anisimov-Horton
Anisimov-Comeau
Anisimov-Jenner
Foligno-Johansen
Johansen-Umberger
Letestu-MacKenzie
Atkinson-Dubinsky
Foligno-Umberger
Comeau-MacKenzie
Horton-Jenner
Comeau-Letestu
Calvert-Dubinsky
Atkinson-Calvert
Anisimov-Atkinson
Letestu-Tropp
Jenner-Johansen
Anisimov-Foligno
Horton-Johansen
Jenner-Letestu
Atkinson-Jenner
Anisimov-Umberger
There are definitely some interesting nuggets to glean from this. The biggest takeaway I have though is regarding Ryan Johansen. Horton and Jenner were both terrible combinations with Johansen, while both of those players were great fits with Artem Anisimov. Meanwhile, the Johansen-Umberger duo looks pretty good. This is almost solely due to Johansen dragging Umberger up a ton, as Johansen was very slightly worse with Umberger than away from him. A combo I liked that also came out very well here was Johansen and Foligno."
I bolded the breakeven group because the colors didn't come through. Below them are the combos that were below average.
