07-09-2020, 10:23 PMJNH Wrote: For clarity's sake regarding "he doesn’t play on the top line where he would potentially face harder match-ups", our 2nd line was line matched to other team's first lines all season.  So he did face the harder match-ups, and still kicked ass.

That's very fair. My take on that was more with that he wouldn't see as many shutdown lines listed on the second line. I do think that he did well when pitted against the 1st lines too though.