Do you mean to say that it is possible that they might cut teeth on his real estate from last season? So far he's averaging 21:15 on ice this year vs. 20:05 last year, and has been on the ice for 73.5% of power play time so far this season (84.6% last game). It doesn't appear that he is really losing any ground up to this point, unless you are looking at a different metric than time on ice and power play time.