Correct, you know what Draisaitl is capable of at $8.5 but not what Matthews is capable of at $11.6, erego kind of silly to be pretending that his current production is at anything other than what it is.
Does he need exactly 27% better production? Probably not. As we know, many things go into valuing a player's worth (try not to cringe here because we're going back down the context road you so despise). For example, just looking at top 10's, it seems the league values centers roughly 12% more than they value wingers. Probably because of the importance and difficulty of the position. Now fortunately, I know for a fact you won't argue against this because you have used it on numerous occasions to lessen the value of Mitch Marner. So right from the get go, it seems we should probably expect an average of a 12% difference in compensation on position alone, given Draisaitl spends the vast majority of his time as a winger. Now we could go down the rabbit hole of all the other reasons why we would expect Matthews to be paid more but I don't know that we need to continue beating that horse? Reality is, at those two cap hits, pretty much any manager in the league drives Leon to the airport if you offer them Matthews and we all know why.