Sure. I thought you were referring to the high end players.
If Kucherov was UFA last summer what would he have gotten for his 83 and 100 assist seasons? If assists are worth half as much as goals he’s not even a 100 point player.
Are you really saying that assists is as important as goals?
No doubt points are points, but goals are just more important.
The One Goal = TWO assists thing has more to do with the simple fact that you can only record A goal when a goal is scored while you can record ZERO, ONE or TWO assists per goal scored.
Now if Kuch was a UFA last season, given his age, he will get around 11mil due to that fact that he did scored 44 goals along with 100 assists and 30goals and 83 assists the year before. While being pretty much a 30 goals scorer in his career plus always performing in the playoffs.