Data-generated scouting provides us with an exclusive opportunity. The data collected allows us to combine the totals for each player in order to communicate the potential strengths and weaknesses of projected lines, or defensive-pairings. Combining each player's offensive and defensive-touch totals with their potential linemates helps determine the likely contribution of each potential combination.
It's important to remember that the totals included here do not represent these players' totals while playing together. They actually represent each player's individual totals combined. Only even-strength events were used.
The further to the right each bubble appears, the more successful puck-possession (o-touch) plays that group of players have contributed per-minute of ice-time. the higher the bubble appears the more successful defensive (forechecking) events each group has produced. The bigger the bubble is, the more offensive-zone events that group has engaged-in per-minute of ice-time.
FORWARD LINES IN OFFENSIVE-ZONE
The Pacioretty/Desharnais/Vanek combination has contributed the most successful puck-possession plays in the offensive-zone per-minute played. The potential combination of Prust/Eller/Gionta has contributed the second-most successful offensive-touches in the offensive-zone.
The Bournival/White/Weise line has contributed the most successful forechecking (defensive-touches) plays in the offensive-zone per-minute; thereby creating the most offensive-zone takeaways per-minute. The Briere/Plekanec/Gallager line has produced the second-most successful defensive-touches in the offensive-zone per-minute played.
