I'd hardly say it makes things harder to predict. It's not hard to figure out the offense is going to go through Stone, Duchene, and Chabot. If Duchene is on with Boedker and White, Duchene drives it. If Stone is out with Brady and Tierney, Stone drives it. That's how hockey works. Your best players generally have the puck the most.
But this isn't what we're seeing at all, virtually the opposite in fact.
Players were always defaulting getting the puck to EK, even when better plays were available. Just because passes go to Stone and Duchene, or they skate the puck into the o-zone doesn't mean that they are driving the offence all of the time, the eye test would indicate that they are not.
Guys like Tierney, Lajoie, and Boedker are driving the puck, Tkachuk is driving the play, heck even Demelo is driving the play sometimes. Guys are passing to the open man, shooting the puck themselves, or looking to make the best play, rather than looking to constantly pass to the best player on the ice and letting him decide where it goes next. Everyone is driving the net, from Stone to Boro.
We have a team attack right now which is sending the offence through everyone and it makes us harder to predict compared to last year. The PP is an excellent example of what the team attack can look like when the play goes through everyone, and everyone feels comfortable shooting the puck. EK was a fantastic player, but we are playing much better team hockey this year so far and I'm not sure anyone can argue against this.