There’s a pretty quirky thing that happens if you look at point generation across the NHL the last three years.



If you sort by points per minute, in all situations, since 2015-16, you get a pretty elite group of players. Evgeni Malkin is first, followed by Connor McDavid, Patrick Kane, Nikita Kucherov and Sidney Crosby.



They’re all names we would expect to headline such a list.



But if you go further down, past Nick Backstrom in sixth and and Auston Matthews in seventh and Jamie Benn after that, there’s one anomaly there — the only one that truly stands out as an outlier in the top 65+ league-wide.



It’s Josh Leivo, as the 14th most prolific player per minute in the NHL:



Now, to be clear, I’m not trying to incite panic in the streets here by pointing out an often healthy scratched Maple Leaf is elite. Leivo’s sample size here — 326 minutes of ice time spread over 2015-16, 2016-17 and...