Did you keep the puck in at the line, skate around two players, and make a perfect pass that opened up all of the space that led to the eventual goal?
Or did you touch the puck 20 seconds ago and get lucky?
So many factors that stat watchers often miss.
Are we actually going to pretend that that's what we're talking about here?
I went through his assists.
Vs Ducks: good keep on the PP, Suzuki makes the play to Laine.
Vs Capitals: Hutson makes a 10 foot pass from behind his own net to Newhook. Newhook skates it to center, passes to caufield at the blueline, who enters the zone and passes it back to Newhook who scores.
Vs Nashville: 5 on 3, simple cross ice pass to Laine, who takes a few seconds to gather and then snipes
Vs Islanders: PP, pretty simple PP game of making passes back and forth between laine on the left and suzuki on the right with Hutson as the guy in the middle between them. Pretty simple pass to Laine who takes a second and snipes ot
Vs Boston:
1st: puck cleared by bos, d partner over to hutson, who passes it into evans as he comes outside the blueline, who then skates in and moves it over to a emil who scores
2nd: on a attempted cross crease pass by boston, the puck tips off hutsons stick slightly. Suzuki grabs it out of the corner, skates it out of the zone, all the way into bostons zone and makes a nice pass to caufield who buries it.
Vs NYR: this one is nice. Great keep at the line, leaving NYR flat footed starting their breakout as the puck goes to caufield who then makes a nice feed back to hutson charging in, who then finds an open suzuki with a pretty cross crease pass for the primary assist.
Vs CBJ on the 27th:
OT play where Suzuki knocks down Johnson on a rush, allowing hutson to grab the puck and start to skate on a 2 on 1. Since Johnson is out of the play Hutson is able to make a nice drop pass to suzuki who steps up and fires it home.
Vs CBJ on the 16th:
4 on 4. Faceoff won back to hutson who makes a simple pass over to his d partner. Slapshot from matheson tipped in by anderson
Vs Buff
1st: PP, shot from the point heading wide directed in by Caufield
2nd: Puck comes out to hutson at the blueline, pass over to Heinemen at the point who steps in and scores
Vs Tor: PP, Puck comes out to hutson, over to the right boards for Heinemen who shoots, and gallagher puts the rebound in.
I've gone back more than a month and have not found anything even close to what you're suggesting is happening for his secondary assists. The NYR one is the only thing resembling it and that was a primary assist. These are pretty normal PPQB and dman points tbh.
He has been good, especially since november started an especially as a power play QB, but let's not lie about how he's getting his points shall we?