He also is literally one of the worst performing performers on the powerplay since coming into the league. That is a fact. He is not the only player in the league that plays on the second unit.
The hypothesis im referring to is the idea that he doesn't get PP time because he's bad on the power play. That's your opinion and it's incorrect.
The fact you're quoting is a statistic twisted to suit your argument. And you are not going to change your mind. You're not interested in changing it, so you're not open to the idea that the statistic you're quoting is misleading.
In theory, we could spend hours going over every one of his PP shifts since his career began, and you could see how getting a 12 second "shift" starting in the D zone is actually not representative of a real PP opportunity in terms of what PPP/60 might be understood to meaningfully show.
You could see how, when essentially all PP minutes accrued over a 3 year period are simply those 10-20 second nothings stacked up, the actual Power Play time is significantly less than actual seconds spent on the an advantage.
You might be led to notice how Filip Chytil and Kaapo Kakko are a few notches above Lafreniere on the list you attached. You could of course take the stat as fact and assume that all 3 are historically impotent PP producers, linked by cruel circumstance to be on the same PP2 unit.
Or you could ask yourself - is it that all 3 of these guys, whose PP shifts were almost exclusively shared over the period since Lafrenieres career began, are all historically poor PP producers? Or is it actually that they were all put together in the exact same situation over and over again - a token 15 seconds at the end of a 1:45 shift by one of the dominant power plays of the last 5 years, with no plan in place or expectation or trust in scoring ability. Just a token 15 second "PP shift" for the Kid line + Trouba and Barclay Goodrow, or Dryden Hunt, or Sammy Blais.
You could spend time looking into the seconds and minutes behind the statistic you're quoting as fact to try and understand what it is you're touting. But we both know you're not going to do that, because to do so would require an openness to changing your mind that is sparse here and ever sparser in this world.
I watch the games. I watch the shifts. I have the context. It matters nothing to me whether you or anyone else agree, at least on this particular issue. So feel free to quote more stats. The numbers may be fact, but the meaning is opinion. And your hypothesis is flatly incorrect.
