Dallas Stars rookie blueliner Esa Lindell played his first NHL season last year after getting four cups of coffee the season prior. After his call-up, he never really looked back, logging 73 games as part of the Stars defensive pairs (just ignore that five game stint where he sat in November and then was sent down to the Texas Stars on a conditioning assignment...just another fun side affect of carrying eight defensemen this past season.)
The majority of those games, Lindell played next to John Klingberg, the offensive machine of the Dallas backend.