NHL Line Combinations
Which lines tilt the ice when they are out there? Every forward line and defense pair a club has used in its last three games, ranked by its share of the five-on-five scoring chances while those skaters were on the ice together.
2026-27 seasonregular season and playoffs, from the league's shift charts
Forward linestop 60 of 96 · at least 12 five-on-five minutes together
Eller – Hathaway – Imama (Panthers) have the best share of the chances among qualifying forward lines: 93.5% of the five-on-five expected goals in 13 minutes together. The most-used is Zibanejad – Lafrenière – Perreault (Rangers) at 46 minutes and 64.2%. 50 of the 96 are above 50%.
| # | Together | GP | 5v5 TOI | xG share | xGF/60 | xGA/60 | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Eller · Hathaway · Imama | 3 | 13:16 | 93.5% | 1.29 | 0.09 | 0–1 |
| 2 |  Draisaitl · Kapanen · Podkolzin | 2 | 12:23 | 88.1% | 6.29 | 0.85 | 1–1 |
| 3 |  Thomas · Holloway · Snuggerud | 2 | 17:50 | 83.3% | 3.80 | 0.76 | 1–0 |
| 4 |  Karlsson · Marner · Howden | 2 | 17:37 | 79.9% | 2.07 | 0.52 | 0–0 |
| 5 | Hyman · McDavid · Formenton | 1 | 11:42 | 79.3% | 3.62 | 0.94 | 1–0 |
| 6 |  Sissons · Paul · Cowan | 3 | 19:45 | 78.4% | 3.28 | 0.91 | 1–0 |
| 7 |  Forsberg · Hoglander · Wood | 2 | 11:49 | 77.3% | 3.69 | 1.08 | 0–0 |
| 8 |  Anderson · Evans · Bolduc | 2 | 14:24 | 77.2% | 3.72 | 1.10 | 1–0 |
| 9 | Luostarinen · Lundell · Vilmanis | 3 | 24:35 | 76.9% | 3.87 | 1.16 | 1–0 |
| 10 |  Kyrou · Protas · Protas | 2 | 14:31 | 76.5% | 4.60 | 1.41 | 1–1 |
| 11 |  Miller · Dorofeyev · Kartye | 3 | 14:17 | 75.5% | 3.14 | 1.02 | 0–1 |
| 12 | Barkov · Reinhart · Tkachuk | 2 | 11:32 | 74.9% | 0.93 | 0.31 | 0–0 |
| 13 |  Boeser · Rossi · Ohgren | 3 | 15:07 | 74.3% | 1.75 | 0.60 | 1–0 |
| 14 | Roslovic · Matthews · Marchenko | 3 | 30:14 | 74.2% | 3.89 | 1.35 | 1–2 |
| 15 | Draisaitl · McDavid · Podkolzin | 2 | 26:21 | 72.5% | 4.08 | 1.55 | 3–2 |
| 16 |  Crouse · Hayton · McBain | 3 | 26:04 | 71.0% | 3.97 | 1.62 | 0–0 |
| 17 |  Meier · Hischier · Evangelista | 2 | 17:00 | 70.8% | 2.80 | 1.15 | 0–1 |
| 18 | Mantha · Bratt · Hughes | 2 | 19:00 | 69.8% | 3.37 | 1.46 | 0–1 |
| 19 |  McLeod · Krebs · Helenius | 2 | 16:23 | 69.5% | 4.34 | 1.91 | 1–1 |
| 20 |  Kempe · Panarin · Byfield | 2 | 23:57 | 68.2% | 3.31 | 1.54 | 0–1 |
| 21 |  Winterton · Wright · Catton | 2 | 17:30 | 67.9% | 2.78 | 1.31 | 1–0 |
| 22 | Jenner · Beauvillier · Sourdif | 2 | 16:16 | 67.4% | 3.77 | 1.82 | 2–0 |
| 23 | Boeser · Cotter · Ohgren | 3 | 17:15 | 67.1% | 3.43 | 1.68 | 3–1 |
| 24 | Thompson · Norris · Doan | 2 | 22:16 | 66.5% | 3.33 | 1.67 | 2–1 |
| 25 | Hertl · Olofsson · Connelly | 2 | 13:31 | 66.5% | 4.51 | 2.27 | 1–1 |
| 26 | Eberle · Stephenson · McMann | 3 | 32:11 | 66.3% | 4.26 | 2.17 | 3–1 |
| 27 | Quinn · Ostlund · Benson | 2 | 24:52 | 64.9% | 3.28 | 1.78 | 0–1 |
| 28 | Zibanejad · Lafrenière · Perreault | 4 | 46:00 | 64.2% | 3.33 | 1.86 | 3–1 |
| 29 | Trocheck · Schmaltz · Keller | 3 | 32:44 | 63.2% | 3.94 | 2.29 | 3–0 |
| 30 |  Scheifele · Connor · Perfetti | 2 | 22:05 | 62.9% | 4.39 | 2.59 | 0–0 |
| 31 | Rodrigues · Gritsyuk · Mercer | 2 | 18:26 | 61.9% | 3.81 | 2.35 | 1–1 |
| 32 | Verhaeghe · Bennett · Tkachuk | 3 | 31:09 | 61.6% | 2.48 | 1.54 | 1–0 |
| 33 | Stamkos · O'Reilly · Kerfoot | 2 | 12:31 | 61.0% | 3.07 | 1.96 | 0–1 |
| 34 | Miller · Bjorkstrand · Dorofeyev | 4 | 27:28 | 60.6% | 3.88 | 2.52 | 0–1 |
| 35 | Lee · Guenther · Cooley | 3 | 28:47 | 60.5% | 3.97 | 2.60 | 1–1 |
| 36 |  Crosby · Rakell · Robertson | 2 | 21:08 | 60.3% | 4.01 | 2.64 | 2–1 |
| 37 |  Foligno · Foligno · McCarron | 2 | 16:04 | 59.2% | 2.55 | 1.76 | 1–1 |
| 38 |  Marchment · Smith · Celebrini | 2 | 23:00 | 59.2% | 1.96 | 1.35 | 1–1 |
| 39 |  Kuraly · Jeannot · Kastelic | 3 | 21:03 | 58.3% | 1.80 | 1.29 | 1–0 |
| 40 | Malkin · Novak · Chinakhov | 2 | 20:07 | 57.3% | 2.37 | 1.77 | 3–0 |
| 41 | Kakko · Wright · Catton | 2 | 11:43 | 56.6% | 3.23 | 2.48 | 1–0 |
| 42 |  Johnson · Knies · Fantilli | 2 | 22:52 | 56.1% | 1.92 | 1.50 | 0–2 |
| 43 | Newhook · Slafkovský · Demidov | 2 | 17:50 | 55.8% | 1.98 | 1.57 | 1–3 |
| 44 |  Kadri · Nelson · Landeskog | 2 | 15:05 | 54.7% | 2.38 | 1.97 | 2–0 |
| 45 |  Guentzel · Cirelli · Hagel | 2 | 15:49 | 54.6% | 2.32 | 1.93 | 0–0 |
| 46 |  Kane · Nazar · Kantserov | 3 | 18:40 | 53.6% | 2.91 | 2.52 | 1–1 |
| 47 |  Frost · Coronato · Gridin | 2 | 21:03 | 53.1% | 3.25 | 2.88 | 0–1 |
| 48 | Coyle · Olivier · Sillinger | 2 | 20:22 | 52.4% | 3.45 | 3.13 | 0–0 |
| 49 | Zacha · Geekie · Mittelstadt | 3 | 31:26 | 51.7% | 3.35 | 3.13 | 1–1 |
| 50 | Buchnevich · McMichael · McTavish | 2 | 12:37 | 50.7% | 3.02 | 2.93 | 1–2 |
| 51 | McCann · Beniers · Samoskevich | 2 | 13:27 | 49.9% | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1–0 |
| 52 | Stenlund · Carcone · But | 3 | 23:44 | 48.7% | 2.73 | 2.88 | 1–1 |
| 53 |  Hall · Stankoven · Blake | 3 | 23:30 | 48.1% | 3.06 | 3.30 | 0–2 |
| 54 | Lindholm · Pastrnak · Peterka | 3 | 29:42 | 47.6% | 1.88 | 2.06 | 1–1 |
| 55 |  Killorn · Granlund · Sennecke | 2 | 18:56 | 47.0% | 1.05 | 1.19 | 1–1 |
| 56 | Frost · Sharangovich · Coronato | 1 | 12:21 | 46.9% | 2.19 | 2.47 | 0–1 |
| 57 | Khusnutdinov · Minten · Hagens | 3 | 25:12 | 46.5% | 1.73 | 1.98 | 1–0 |
| 58 | Coleman · Eriksson Ek · Boldy | 2 | 14:44 | 46.2% | 2.83 | 3.29 | 0–0 |
| 59 | Greenway · Smith · Greene | 3 | 32:22 | 45.4% | 2.50 | 3.00 | 2–3 |
| 60 | Greer · Gauthier · Carlsson | 2 | 19:22 | 45.3% | 3.27 | 3.94 | 0–0 |
How this is measured
The league's shift charts say who was on the ice every second. Each stretch of five-on-five play with three forwards and two defensemen a side is credited to that forward line and that defense pair, along with the expected goals each team created in it (from our shot model) and the goals actually scored. A line's xG share is its team's part of those expected goals: above 50% it out-chanced whoever it faced.
Only combinations used in the club's last three games are listed, so a trio broken up weeks ago does not sit on the board, and only those with at least the stated minutes together, because a share over a few shifts is noise. Ice time with four forwards or during a line change counts for nobody. The number does not adjust for who the line played against or where its shifts started. More →