Oh come on,
You know you're being completely disingenuous here.
Tavares was a point per game player this past season, playing 2nd line centre.
Mikheyev had an anomaly type season when you look at not only his history, but post season production.
2 assists in 7 games. Yeah he had 2 EN goals in the same game that doubled his playoff performance.
His biggest boon this year was the penalty kill where the speed was always a factor of fear and helped Toronto do really well when looking at effective penalty killing percentage.
Our penalty kill was by far our biggest liability in the playoffs though, and after game 1, our pk was never remotely dangerous again.
I don't see the link to Tavares to be honest.
Players like Mikheyev, Kerfoot, Gardiner, who have tools and speed to burn, but lack the brain to be effective are always replaceable and should never be paid like core players, nor even like solid depth guys.
Bunting wasn't even a thing this time last year, why are you bemoaning his next contract already? He has exactly 0 track record in the NHL, that he was still a rookie at 26.
I like the player, and if he plays like he did this year, I would like to keep him around, but let's not act like he is some 22 year old prodigy that we have been penciling into the lineup for years only to now lose him to the cap.
Truth be told, a 6th round pick is essentially nothing, historically speaking.
Good luck to whatever Team pays that.
