On the other hand it's been two games with minimal TOI, before that he scored 1+1 in three games and things weren't looking that grim. With your logic Woodcroft had to be pretty excited about him a short while ago as he was averaging almost 16 minutes before the playoffs.
What I'm saying is we need much larger sample sizes whether we see the player in a good or bad light. Those sample sizes reveal that he's been worse than expected offensively, but better than expected in other areas. He's used his low PP chances quite well, but the coaches have decided to use other options.
I posted these brutal plays immediately after the game, much to a couple posters trying to paint me as biased and illogical and lying when it comes to JP.
Several hours later Stauffer, on his show, broke down the games, player by player, saying the same thing when he got to JP's game. It's not like some conspiracy was taking place. It was plain as day.
JP literally steam rolled Nuge on a cycle, Stauff made a point of it also. He then broke down some other bad and blatant plays that proceeded.
He hasn't been good in areas. Woody is not out to get the guy. The last 2 games his TOI took a drastic hit cuz he made some very noticeable and way outside any system they were trying to implement bad plays, that had nothing to do with trying to make a play, a selfish attempt or a high risk manuever to create
The crunch on Nuge during a cycle, then flopping over his own coordination on McD's drop pass cost him his TOI 2 games ago. He followed that up last game with some highly WTF are you doing moments. If JP last game beats a dman outside, dekes a player inside, or spins a player off the boards and creates a high danger chance inside, his minutes go waaaaaaay up. He just never gave Woody an excuse to play him more on any play. That simple
Even Yamo was benched and then put together some strong forechecks and his icetime procceeded after that.
His TOI recently is easily explainable, and not due to some miraculous "hip injury" a poster is trying to peddle
Drai can barely move and Woody is using him more. Like duh
If JP creates some high danger chances directly off his own stick next game, he plays 14min a nite. It's simple