2yr paces actually make most of the leafs look worse than a 1yr Pace would.
Nice manipulation of stats when it comes to Bunting, Mikheyev and kase, Brooks.
Bunting hasn't played enough games the previous 2 years to actually believe his 2 year pace of being a 60 point player is reliable
Mikheyev just had a very disappointing offensive season and so far is an unknown with half a good year and half a poor season
Kase has injury concerns the previous few years. He had 24 in 55 in 2020 and 0 in 3 in 2021. He's a question mark and isn't a guy who can be reliably predicted in terms of offensive production.
Brooks is another player with a very small sample size which flatters his expected pace production. He isn't even guaranteed a spot on the leafs team next year
Other teams players are playing in different roles/systems that will impact their production. Bennett won't be a 100 point player but he also won't be a 25 point guy he was for the past few years with the flames
Hall won't be sucking hard like he did for most of 2021 with the Sabres which hurt his 2 year pace
Other teams depth pieces had seasons showing positive offensive trending.
Flordia had Verhaghe, Duclair, Bennett produce at a level our depth guys won't won't able to match
Boston will have Hall be a secondary producer along with C.Wilson, Coyle
Those teams are built to have more offensive contributions down across the lineup as they have more offensively skilled producers in their middle 6.
Leafs have clear top end advantage now over every team expect for Tampa but depth offensive pieces we could be in trouble if kase/bunting/mikheyev etc don't have a bounce back/healthy full season.
Leafs are better than MTL at every aspect of the game as they were in 2021 which made the playoff collapse suck even more. The Habs shouldn't have lasted past game 5 but the team didn't close them put
