If you remember the 2015-16 Stanley Cup run for the Pittsburgh Penguins you know how significant the HBK line of Carl Hagelin, Nick Bonino, and Phil Kessel was that season. They were dominant. They scored big goals. They became a third scoring line that made the Penguins absolutely impossible to match up against.
Each of the Penguins’ three Stanley Cup winning teams (and four Stanley Cup Finals teams) during the Sidney Crosby-Evgeni Malkin era all had that sort of dominant third line.
The 2009 team had the Jordan Staal, Matt Cooke, and Tyler Kennedy line.