I was just looking at that stat line. Has he been the best player in the league this year? His line is obviously amazing, but at worst he is top 5 forwards or top 10 including dmen and goalies. I am so proud of that line. I cant remember ever seeing a line play hockey like that, it is beautiful.
It's a weird mix of speed and tenacity IMO. Whenever they get in trouble they simply dump the puck into the corner because they know someone's going to win a battle. Also, the guys without the puck seem to know when to go to the corner before the puck is even dumped.
With Johnson though... The guy is still a +26 and he has 43 points in 40 games. He'll get no MVP consideration because of about a million factors, but he's clearly been our MVP.
Kucherov is getting scary good too, of course, which is hard to believe. Not that he wasn't good before, but he's clearly still improving. That's only going to help Johnson in terms of production, like it did tonight.