Even the Chytil from late last season wouldn't have had the stones to go for that face-off goal
Chytil's been trying that goal since his sophomore season, but I agree on the main point; he's growing confident.
He's always been capable of making one good play (where Lafreniere is now), it's having the comfort and poise to string two or three good plays together that makes an elite player. He's getting there and often is already there. He's not falling on his tight turns or losing the puck mid-stickhandle as he used to, and his overall awareness is streets ahead of where it was even last season. The meme that he'd be better on the wing should die a peaceful death.
There are so few big-bodied high-skill centers, and somehow the Rangers now have two of them.