As the title says. Bonus points for something other than "my team sucked in -insert year-"
A signing, a political gesture, a business decision, a front office move etc.
Top lines 25/26 based on goals percentage and time on ice. Line had to play at least 246 minutes (three minutes per game average) to be ranked. Rank is based on rank score for time and rank score for goals percentage. Fist in time and first in goal percentage would have a score of two. Lowest score is best. There were 55 lines that played 246 minutes according to Moneypuck.
Results are interesting, for example McDavid's line was underwater at 49% goal percentage and Draisaitl did not even center a line that accumulated 246 minutes together, so he is not on this list, which is a list of lines, not centers per se.
We have: rank, team, line, minutes (time on ice), goals for, goals against, goals for per 60 minutes, goals against per 60 minutes.
A messy text-based list is below
Rank Team Line Minutes G% Gf Ga Gf/60 Ga/60
1 MTL Slafkovsky-Suzuki-Caufield 532.4 70.2% 33 14 3.72 1.58
2 COL Lehkonen-MacKinnon-Necas 558.8 68.8% 44 20 4.72 2.15
3 DET Debrincat-Copp-Kane 500.2 68.2% 30 14 3.6 1.68
4 BOS Arvidsson-Zacha-Mittelstadt 585 65.1% 41 22 4.21 2.26
5 MIN Boldy-Eriksson Ek-Johansson 427.8 69.8% 30 13 4.21 1.82
6 CBJ Marchment-Fantilli-Marchenko 356.8 70.6% 24 10 4.04 1.68
7 TBL Hagel-Cirelli-Kucherov 340.6 77.8% 28 8 4.93 1.41
10t UTA Crouse-Schmaltz-Keller 359.6 66.7% 28 14 4.67 2.34
10t CBJ Sillinger-Coyle-Olivier 418.4 64.3% 27 15 3.87 2.15
10t BUF Zucker-McLeod-Quinn 446.7 61.7% 29 18 3.89 2.42
12t WSH Ovechkin-Strome-Beauvillier 404.7 62.9% 22 13 3.26 1.93
12t CAR Hall-Stankoven-Blake 551.8 57.6% 34 25 3.7 2.72
13 VGK Barbashev-Eichel-Stone 363.1 65.1% 28 15 4.63 2.48
14 WPG Connor-Scheifele-Vilardi 652.4 53. 44 39 4.05 3.59
16t PIT Dewar-Lizotte-Acciari 363.6 61.5% 16 10 2.64 1.65
16t CAR Jarvis-Aho-Svechnikov 583 52.7% 29 26 2.98 2.68
Rank Team Line Minutes G% Gf Ga Gf/60 Ga/60
17 LAK Panarin-Kopitar-Kempe 316 66.7% 20 10 3.8 1.9
19t MTL Slafkovsky-Kapanen-Demidov 364.3 58.1% 25 18 4.12 2.96
19t MIN Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello 419.2 56.1% 23 18 3.29 2.58
20 PIT Rust-Crosby-Rakell 391.7 57.5% 23 17 3.52 2.6
21 TBL Girgensons-Gourde-Holmberg 619 47.4% 18 20 1.74 1.94
23t STL Holloway-Thomas-Snuggerud 253.9 80. 24 6 5.67 1.42
23t OTT Pinto-Giroux-Amadio 284.3 65.2% 15 8 3.17 1.69
26t NSH Stamkos-O'Reilly-Evangelista 266.6 66.7% 18 9 4.05 2.03
26t CHI Burakovsky-Bedard-Greene 354.1 57.6% 19 14 3.22 2.37
26t ANA Kreider-Carlsson-Terry 390.8 53.8% 21 18 3.22 2.76
27 OTT Tkachuk-Cozens-Greig 319.5 59.3% 16 11 3 2.07
28 BUF Krebs-Thompson-Tuch 254.9 69.2% 18 8 4.24 1.88
29 WPG Iafallo-Scheifele-Connor 453.1 47.6% 20 22 2.65 2.91
32t VGK Hertl-Marner-Dorofeyev 267.9 63.2% 12 7 2.69 1.57
32t EDM Hyman-McDavid-Nugent-Hopkins 397 48.9% 23 24 3.48 3.63
32t DET Raymond-Larkin-Finnie 490.8 45. 18 22 2.2 2.69
Rank Team Line Minutes G% Gf Ga Gf/60 Ga/60
33 ANA Gauthier-McTavish-Sennecke 328.1 57.1% 16 12 2.93 2.19
34 LAK Moore-Byfield-Laferriere 284.1 61.3% 19 12 4.01 2.53
36t SEA McCann-Beniers-Eberle 337.3 55.9% 19 15 3.38 2.67
36t NJD Mercer-Hischier-Meier 476 41.2% 14 20 1.76 2.52
39t CAR Ehlers-Stankoven-Blake 249.4 66.7% 10 5 2.41 1.2
39t NSH Forsberg-O'Reilly-Evangelista 274.6 60.7% 17 11 3.71 2.4
39t MTL Newhook-Kapanen-Demidov 284.5 58.8% 20 14 4.22 2.95
40 PHI Zegras-Dvorak-Konecny 301 57.1% 20 15 3.99 2.99
41 DAL Johnston-Steel-Rantanen 248.3 65. 13 7 3.14 1.69
42 SJS Smith-Celebrini-Graf 263.2 59.1% 13 9 2.96 2.05
43 NYR Lafrenire-Zibanejad-Perreault 264.5 58.3% 14 10 3.18 2.27
44 CAR Martinook-Staal-Ehlers 320.5 48.5% 16 17 3 3.18
45 CAR Martinook-Staal-Carrier 295.8 50. 15 15 3.04 3.04
46 BOS Geekie-Lindholm-Pastrnak 349.8 45.7% 16 19 2.74 3.26
48t OTT Cousins-Pinto-Amadio 290 50. 10 10 2.07 2.07
48t BOS Jeannot-Kastelic-Kuraly 351.2 42.9% 9 12 1.54 2.05
Rank Team Line Minutes G% Gf Ga Gf/60 Ga/60
49 FLS Luostarinen-Lundell-Reinhart 310.4 48.1% 13 14 2.51 2.71
50 NYI MacLean-Cizikas-Gatcomb 308.5 46.2% 6 7 1.17 1.36
51 OTT Stützle-Giroux-Batherson 262.2 50. 10 10 2.29 2.29
52 ANA Killorn-Granlund-Sennecke 259.4 50. 9 9 2.08 2.08
53 NJD Bratt-Hughes-Brown 246.7 52. 13 12 3.16 2.92
54 VGK Barbashev-Eichel-Bowman 261.4 46.2% 12 14 2.75 3.21
55 DAL Robertson-Johnston-Bourque 262.5 36.8% 7 12 1.6 2.74
Can Vancouver do the improbable?!
Still to come!
Montreal (12 Marbles) vs. Ottawa (17 Marbles)
Washington (10 Marbles) vs. Pittsburgh (18 Marbles)
NYR (13 Marbles) vs, New Jersey (16 Marbles)
Utah (6 Marbles) vs. Minnesota (8 Marbles)
Anaheim (7 Marbles) vs. Seattle (14 Marbles)
Vegas (9 Marbles) vs San Jose (11 Marbles)
I love hockey and I absolutely love going to games. I think there's something magical about being there in the arena with the ice. But I live in Toronto area so tickets are crazy expensive and cheaper tickets are still expensive because they require transportation and sometimes accommodation costs as well.
In practice, I mostly go to AHL games because the quality of play is still high and the tickets are way more affordable.
Can anyone relate? I'm just feeling really bummed out as some tickets went on-sale today and everything just costs so much.
https://xcancel.com/m_bultman/status/2090481403154632983
Edit - Follow up post by Max:
>And yes, there continues to be buzz about Jeff Greenberg as well -- wasn't sure whether to include him in "external" candidates since the Tigers (of whom Greenberg is Current GM) are also owned by Ilitch Sports and Entertainment
Since drafting Marchenko in 2018 - notable players drafted: HockeyDB
Players who have played over 50 games for the Jackets since being drafted in 2018 to 2023
That's not a lot of players out of the dozens drafted since 2018 and I'm only pegging it at 50 games played, if I did 100 games, it would be fewer - I realize that not every pick is going to work out but it's not the most impressive record.
And to comment on some draft picks:
It hurts when a number of first round picks but it really hampers the Blue Jackets because they have trouble retaining players.
More recent drafts: