Quoting: brady_t12
Wilson is scoring at a 27-goal pace and is also on pace for roughly 50 points over an 82 game span after coming back from ACL surgery. He also is a physical force and a fantastic two way player. Yamamoto does not bring any of those things. He is monumentally better than Yamamoto.
You're including PP points. He wouldn't be on Edmonton's PP so that's irrelevant.
At 5v5 over the past 2 seasons, Wilson has scored 0.75 goals/60. Yamamoto has scored 0.70 goals/60. That's not substantially different.
Yamamoto is also very physical for a small player, but of course nowhere near as physical as Wilson is. But all of Wilson's physicality doesn't lead to more scoring. And Yamamoto is around the net more often than Wilson, leading to more expected goals, more scoring chances and more high danger corsi.
Wilson v Yamamoto, individual
And you're wrong about Wilson's defensive ability too. His numbers are just okay (but no better than Yamamoto's) and then you see that he has 3x more offensive zone starts than defensive zone starts! Talk about sheltering.
Wilson v Yamamoto, on ice
That said, if their cap hits were equal I'd take Wilson over Yamamoto. But I can't justify the $2.5M extra cap hit just for increased physicality (you can get physicality for a LOT less), let alone the addition of Broberg, who is the most valuable player of the three.
It just doesn't add up.