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Frequency of the line combination (how often and how much a group has played together), point production (goals+assists), and percentage of total team points (goals+assists) are listed. Top producing lines and totals are bolded.
All bottom 6 players
LINE FREQ / PTS / TOTPTS%
Adams-Glass-Vitale 2.69 / 5 / 2.15
Adams-Glass-Sutter 2.58 / 3 / 1.29
Conner-Sutter-Vitale 2.43 / 7 / 3.00
Conner-Ebbett-Sutter 1.52 / 3 / 1.29
Adams-Kobasew-Sill 1.44 / /
Dustin-Kobasew-Sutter 1.05 / 2 / 0.86
Adams-Glass-Sill 1.02 / /
Glass-Pyatt-Sutter 1.02 / /
TOTAL / / 20 / 8.59
At least 2 bottom 6 players and points produced
LINE FREQ / PTS / TOTPTS%
Bennett-Kobasew-Sutter 0.2 / 3 / 1.29
Conner-Crosby-Vitale 0.08 / 3 / 1.29
Adams-Kunitz-Vitale 0.07 / 1 / 0.43
Adams-Glass-Malkin 0.05 / 3 / 1.29
Kobasew-Megna-Vitale 0.04 / 1 / 0.43
Adams-Kunitz-Sill 0.03 / 1 / 0.43
TOTAL / 12 / 5.16
One bottom 6 player and points produced
LINE FREQ / PTS / TOTPTS%
Jokinen - Kobasew - Malkin 2.03 / 2 / 0.86
Crosby - Kunitz - Vitale 1.27 / 1 / 0.43
Conner - Jokinen - Neal 1.09 / 3 / 1.29
Gibbons - Jokinen - Sutter 0.95 / 5 / 2.15
Jokinen - Malkin - Pyatt 0.42 / 3 / 1.29
Crosby - Glass - Kunitz 0.36 / 2 / 0.86
Bennett- Jokinen - Sutter 0.28 / 2 / 0.86
Gibbons - Jokinen - Vitale 0.26 / 3 / 1.29
Malkin - Neal - Sutter 0.22 / 2 / 0.86
Dupuis - Megna - Vitale 0.17 / 2 / 0.86
Crosby - Glass - Megna 0.13 / 2 / 0.86
Dupuis - Neal - Sutter 0.11 / 1 / 0.43
Adams - Crosby - Malkin 0.1 / 3 / 1.29
Dupuis - Malkin - Sutter 0.1 / 2 / 0.86
Gibbons - Glass - Malkin 0.03 / 3 / 1.29
TOTAL / / 36 / 15.48
For the Pens, the top 6 produce 54% (127 points) versus the bottom 6 alone producing 8.6%. In comparison the top lines in Boston produce 53.7%. The most common bottom 2 lines each produce over 5%. Anaheim's first line produces 28.7% of the Duck's points with their third line producing 17%. Due to injuries and the least TOI of all second lines in the league, I have no idea what the Duck's second line is and its production seems too complicated to figure out. Chicago's top six produce approximately 42% with 7% and 5.5% production from the 3rd and 4th lines (12.5% total). The Canucks are an interesting comparison because they play their first and second lines a lot and limit TOI for the third and fourth lines (least TOI for 3rd and 4th lines in the league). The most common top lines including the Sedins and/or Kesler account for 34.5% point production. The most frequent lines of the bottom 6 account for 14% of the Nuck's production (5.3%, 5.3%, 3.4% for the 3 most common lines).
Source of line production-
Source of line TOI
Other notes: For my purposes bottom 6 players included all roster players who played more than 60 min (excludes Ebbett) and played most frequently with bottom 6 players (not Crosby, Malkin, Neal & Kunitz) which excludes Bennett, Megna & Gibbons. There might be math mistakes, and percentages do not equal zero as I didn't go through all of the top 6 line iterations for the Pens or all of the line combinations for the other teams. I also didn't track the line combinations including top 6 and bottom 6 players that didn't produce points - too many of them and used so infrequently.
For interest the
most frequent top6 lines for the Pens include:
LINE FREQ / PTS / TOTPTS%
Crosby-Dupuis-Kunitz 16.13 / 57 / 24.46
Jokinen-Malkin-Neal 6.2 / 26 / 11.16
Crosby-Kunitz-Neal 2.92 / 16 / 6.87
Jokinen-Malkin-Megna 1.97 / 6 / 2.58
Crosby-Kunitz-Malkin 1.8 / 12 / 5.15
Crosby-Gibbons-Kunitz 1.56 / 6 / 2.58
Bennett-Jokinen-Malkin 1.31 / 4 / 1.72
Dupuis-Malkin-Neal 1.08 / /
TOTAL / / 127 / 54.52
