Tyler Johnson, Nikita Kucherov and Ondrej Palat have combined for 17 goals and 31 points in 13 postseason games. At five-on-five, the trio has 10 goals and 18 points.
Palat-Johnson-Kucherov has been one of the NHL's deadliest lines all season. They had 74 goals and 126 assists in the regular season, most of which came after coach Jon Cooper put them together toward the end of October.
Cooper had this to say earlier in the season about his young stars, per Chris Johnston of Sportsnet:
I've been with (Johnson) and Palat for four-plus years now, and I've watched their magic work from the American League to up here. The one thing is that (Kucherov) has kind of been that perfect fit for them. They play the game at an unbelievable pace, they have extremely high hockey I.Q., and they've been sort of dubbed 'The Triplets' because they kind of think alike everywhere on the ice.
Henrik Lundqvist of the New York Rangers and Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning will draw all the attention during the 2015 Eastern Conference Final, but it's how the second line of Palat-Johnson-Kucherov fairs against the ...
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