I'll explain this slow, because it seems you need it to be explained this way: Stats aren't scalable in hockey. Kane's 20 min TOI/g is different than AA's 15 TOI/g. Kane faces a team's best players night in and night out. AA doesn't. The reason why you can scale in baseball is because all players in a given game will likely face the same defenders and same pitchers. You can atomize each play to pitch, contact, defensive play, and base running. A pitcher throws the ball, the batter hits it, a defender makes a play, and the batter runs. Each can be easily measured and each is the sum of individual interactions with the baseball. Hockey isn't nearly that simple, and cannot be atomized and comparisons between players cannot be easily made. Kane will play against Drew Doughty, Shea Weber, Sidney Crosby and Steven Stamkoses. AA plays against 2nd and 3rd line talent and 2nd and 3rd pairing defenders most of the time. As such to abstract a hockey player down to stats is not only completely ignorant to the game, but is intellectually dishonest.
Quit making these forced comparisons. AA has looked good in the last few games, lets be happy about that, he's not Patty Kane, Sidney Crosby or Steve Stamkos, because at AA's age they were all players that had PPG seasons, or 120 point seasons or 40+ goal seasons. In fact, in their 19 year old seasons they each had more points in that season than AA had in his whole career as a 24 year old.
SO one last time, AA has looked good when he first joined the team and the last 3-4 games, comparing him to generational players just makes you look like a slappy.
