Quoting: Caniac2000
Except he averages 14 minutes a night 5v5, which is a 2C workload. He doesn't play special teams, which hampers that. If he did, say that's up to 16-17 minutes a night? Yeah, 2C workload. Insane defensive stats between Andrei Svechnikov and Martin Necas... the two worst defensive forwards the Canes had. Against incredibly strong competition last year too. Looking back at it, his QoC factor is the second highest on the team, to only Aho. So ya, 2C on an Eastern Conference Finalist.
I don't know where you're getting that he faced against strong comp, he didn't. Almost any stat site/public model has his quality of comp and role difficulty in the gutter lol, because he didn't play against top comp.
14 minutes 5v5 is not a 2C workload. 2C's play 17+ 5V5 minutes a night and aren't sheltered against comp.
Again, nothing convinces me he's a 2C, because he isn't. Scored 40 points once