In all seriousness, I think for a while there teams were over-committing to trying to smother Johnny which didn't see him get a lot of looks from high danger areas - but in turn - opened up other players for him to thread the needle to which saw his assists take off.
As he's been heating up this month, teams don't know what to do and now that they can't slash his hands and fingers off, he's back to scoring at a high pace as well as continuing to be one of the premier playmakers in the sport.
I think Jagr was right that he has the talent to challenge for the scoring title every year.
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