When Noah Juulsen came up to the Montreal Canadiens, there was no doubt who his main partner on defence was.
Claude Julien put the rookie with Karl Alzner, and the two were each other’s primary partners for the remainder of the season. The two played just over 327 minutes at even strength together over Juulsen’s 23 games in the NHL. To put it in perspective, Alzner only played 50:07 in the same situation with Shea Weber over 26 games.
The 327 minutes with Alzner represented over 73% of Juulsen’s NHL time.