Fun story, I decided to go back and fact check this and made several fun observations...
1. The line you're talking about is Bunting/Kotkaniemi/Necas with an xGF/60 of 3.11. Funny thing... That makes it the
50th best xGF/60. So either we have 50 elite lines in the league or that's not elite territory.
2. Interesting that you didn't bring up the Bunting/Kotkaniemi/Necas lines xGA/60... Which is also 3.11. Which means they break even in expecting scoring. It's also the
29th worst xGA/60 line in the league. Soooo 50th best in xGF/60 but 29th worst xGA/60 isn't a good thing right?
3. That 3.11 xGA/60 is also Carolina's worst xGA/60 by a country mile. The next worst is Teravainen/Aho/Svechnikov at 2.44 xGA/60.
4. But I decided to take it a step further! Bunting/Kotkaniemi/Necas is 3.11 xGF/60 and 3.11 xGA/60. Bunting/Drury/Necas is 3.12 xGF/60 and
2.09 xGA/60. Necas/Drury/Noesen is
3.47 xGF/60 and
1.62 xGA/60.
Since I know you're a bit slow, that last point means that both Bunting and Necas are better offensively without KK on their line, and are EXPONENTIALLY better defensively without KK on their line.
RIP