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Part 2

So what I was still curious about, was "How did Prime Karlsson play, when he played on a winning team in 2017 that had a strong run to game 7 of the ECF".

Essentially: did Karlsson need to change his game on a "successful" playoff run?

So I pulled up all those same numbers, this time of 2017 Playoff Karlsson, which some might say was peak Karlsson in terms of all-around game

Karlsson averaged 21:40 of 5v5 icetime and produced 1.89 points per 60 minutes over 19 games that postseason. He had a point on 56.52% of all goals scored while he's on the ice.

Of his 411:43 total logged 5v5 icetime:

85:37 was spent trailing (3.50 P/60)
236:03 was spent tied (1.53 P/60)
90:03 was spent with a lead (1.33 P/60)

The breakdown of his points rate was:

0.29 goals/60
1.02 primary assists/60
0.58 secondary assists/60

He led his team's blueline with 14.86 shot attempts per sixty minutes, of which 9.18 (~62%) were unblocked and 5.68 (~38%) were actually shots on net. Anyways, 0.29 goals on 9.18 unblocked shot attempts puts him at a 3.2% scoring rate.

When Karlsson was on the ice, the senators generated 55.09 shot attempts per sixty. Subtracting his own 14.86 attempts, that's 40.23 teammate shot attempts/60 of which he was responsible for 1.60 assists per sixty.

So again the biggest gap between Kylington's current season and 2017 Karlsson is in shot volume.

Karlsson just got a LOT of shot attempts.