I love how you admit that Hertl brings "a lot of value" in areas outside of scoring. Then try to minimize that value by bringing up some stupid argument about p/60. Also lovely that you went back to last year, but decided to stop there, since if you went one year further back, Hertl was putting up 1.99 pts/60. The year before that, another 1.25 pts/60, and his rookie year, 2.55pts/60.
Now maybe if you actually took the time to try and understand why Hertl has such varying Pt/60 totals you might notice some common themes. Like when Hertl is actually being used as an offensive forward, he scores more points, this generally occurs when playing along side Thornton. When Hertl has been on the third line, or playing shutdown minutes like this year, he scores less.
Also every year that Hertl scores less pts/60 his shots/60 are significantly less. So if we want Hertl to score more, take him off a line with Cooch, who is the trigger man on the line, and put Hertl on a line where he is the trigger man on the line. Or atleast take him away from Cooch who is not much of a playmaker, or puck distributer, and shows very little, to no chemistry with offensively.
This is all assuming I even agree that points are the main determining factor in how contracts are determined, which I do not.