Marner pretty much paces out 100 points every season so he's a pass by your criteria?
I know you know this but there is more to the game than just points.
points matter the most especially at these current deals
WE talk about being good defensively year in and year out
Matthews and Marner have top 3 selke finishes and still come playoffs the team and they themselves struggle with putting pts and getting offense.
This team should be ovepowering other teams with the allegedly elite/uncompetable talent they have in the core 4/5 guys
100 pts you are right is too low. He needs to be at 110+. Him and Nylander should be on the 1st and 2nd NHL teams as RW to be able to justify 11.5M and I am assuming 12.5M (marners potential ask)
Marners defense did him nothing when he played another super star player in pastrnak who managed to get two big goals when marner was on the ice/at fault.
To beat teams we will need huge offensive power from the stars + good defensive system (not indovudally foced defensive players) which promotes physicality and sustained pressure offense + goaltending
Marner/Matthews/Barkov (another guy whose defense league wide is praised to lengths) all they want, the elite and best players will get their chances and pts across the EVS/5v5/PP as we saw with Mcdavid vs Barkov/panthers in the finals
Our core needs to be the guys that are pushing and out producing other teams stars for us to have a great run