If Chytil was better on faceoffs he would not get more ice time and would not take many more per game. For him to do either of those things would require him to play higher than the third line, play on the PK, or have a more important PP role. There is almost zero correlation between FO% and TOI at 5v5 among players with 200 faceoffs taken. Oddly enough, it actually was a marginally indirect correlation this year. In fact, the group of players under 45% FO% averaged more 5v5 ice time than the group of players above 55%.
All of Hayes, Thompson, Stutzle, Barbashev, Mercer, Hughes, Dach had FO% of 42.2% or lower at 5v5. They all played at least 13.4 mins (Chytil 11.7). 13.4 mins at 5v5 is more than Bergeron, J. Staal, Toews, Carter, (0.1 less than ROR), Barkov, Dvorak all of whom were 55% or better.
The "Strong Side" draw thing is one of the biggest galaxy brain things coaches do. They'll have a far inferior player take the draw just because he'll win it to the boards instead of the middle. All this does is cause the team to lose the draw more often.
