And now do without Ekblad, McAvoy, Bouchard and Brodie...

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I had Eichel, Aho, and Miller all pretty close for 8/9/10. You could argue Aho ahead of Eichel but for me Point is definitely ahead. Although if you were using just PPG and points Miller would then be ahead of Aho (and quite a few others)

Point to me feels much more a product of his linemate than being the one elevating his linemates... his stats over the past few years without Kucherov are not great to say the least but I can see the argument for Point/Eichel/Aho/Miller for that 7/8/9/10 spot.

So, not based on playoff performance.

I'm disappointed. When I saw your title, I was expecting playoff performance to be the #1 criteria.

Forsling without Ekblad: 68.64 CF%, 80 GF%, 64.9 xGF%
Ekblad without Forsling: 58.48 CF%, 83.33 GF%, 58.69 xGF%

Ekholm without Bouchard: 62.53 CF%, 71.43 GF%, 61.39 xGF%
Bouchard without Ekholm: 61.62 CF%, 59.09 GF%, 67.4 xGF%

(Lindholm has over double the amount of 5v5 ice time with Carlo as he does with McAvoy but here are his results without McAvoy)
Lindholm without McAvoy: 48.33 CF%, 52.63 GF%, 51.65 xGF%
McAvoy without Lindholm: 47.79 CF%, 56.94 GF%, 51.75 xGF%

Rielly without Brodie: 52.83 CF%, 53.16 GF%, 52.01 xGF%
Brodie without Rielly: 50.4 CF%, 52.83 GF%, 52.92 xGF%

Ekholm's stats are better without Bouchard than with him... small sample size though and probably lower comp (I haven't checked that, it's just gut feel).

Forsling and Ekholm, fair, but Lindholm's stats go down the drain without McAvoy

The CF% goes down a bit but the xGF% actually goes up slightly

McAvoy also has his best numbers when paired with Lindholm

56.94 GF% is a good number so IDK...

And still, think of the numbers you have Ekblad, Bouchard, McAvoy...

Brodie doesn't make up top 60 defensemen eligible for this list...