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Philadelphia Flyers: Who were Ville Leino's line mates when he was good and what was his role on the line?

• Was he on 1st line? Was he a scorer on his line typically?

• Answer:

  A good site for finding this type of information is Left Wing Lock. They have a tool that shows you the line combinations for different teams by looking at the amount of ice time a group of three forwards was on the ice for: http://www.leftwinglock.com/line-combinations/ If we look at the Flyers line combos in 2010-11 when Leino had his highest scoring season, we see that the most common even strenght line combination was Leino, Briere and Hartnell with 19.73% of the team's total even strength ice time. On the powerplay Leino played with Richards and Giroux (10.8% total PP ice time), Richards and Carter (7.3%) or Briere and Hartnell (3.5%). Its hard to say if that is the "first line" or not. The Flyers were very deep at forward that season. Here are their leading scorers from 2010-11: Giroux    25G 51A 76P Briere     34G 34A 68P Carter     36G 30A 66P Richards 23G 43A 66P Leino      19G 34A 53P Hartnell   24G 25A 49P So they had 3 of their top 6 scorers on one line but only 1 from the top 4. From Left Wing Lock's statistics on line combinations, it seems like Giroux and Carter mostly played together with their third linemate changing frequently while Richards generally played with other players. I'd lean more towards labelling the Giroux-Carter combination as the team's top line. In that season Leino had 14 goals and 28 assists during even strength. Hartnell had 20 goals and 19 assists during even strength and Briere had 28 goals and 25 assists. So it seems that Leino was more of a playmaker on that line. On the powerplay Leino scored 5 goals and 6 assists. Richards scored 5 goals and 16 assists, Giroux 8 goals and 11 assists and Carter 8 goals and 9 assists. This quick breakdown makes it seem like Leino was more of a complimentary player and not the primary scorer.