Quoting: GuyGuyGuy
Hahaha. Insiders have said Zegras is available for the right price.
Caufield has the exact same pts per 82 games than Zegras, but he has 20 goals more in 12 less games. He is also a small bit better defensively
Dach may be worst offensively, but not by a lot. But Dach is 1000x better defensively. Both are injury prone.
Suzuki may have slightly worst age ajusted offensive numbers, but Zegras isn’t even in the same league defensively. Suzuki is also almost ppg this year, a thing I doubt Zegras ever does.
Slafkovsky smokes Zegras this year. In all departments. He is 19 and big guys tend to developp later. He is 100% going to be better long term
The fifth forward is the 2024 first, who is gonna be top 10. Any forward in the top 10 will probably be better than Zegras, but since we never know, I putted fourth to sixth. I realise I should have putted « in the depth chart » after best forwards but it made sense in my head
Newhook isn’t good enough offensively for his defense to carry him ahead of Zegras, although an argument could probably be made. Would you rather have a 55 pts min LW who is great defensively or a 65-70 pts C who is one of the worst forward in the league defensively
Don’t forget he has 7 pts in 20 games only this year and has regressed from the other years…
Zegras’ value is almost all because of marketing. Trading for him would be a horrible move on the ice, but an amazing one for the owners. Therefore, as a fan who wants a competitive team, Zegras is completely unwanted.
Zegras has a better PPG than Caufield across their respective careers, and Zegras has a -44 across 200 games to Caufields -41 in 188, this whole Zegras player a full season on a team with a historically bad, barely AHL level defense.
Dach has missed more man games due to injury than he has played in a hand uniform, since he became a hab, this is Zegras first season with any injury issues, those are not the same, and Dachs offensive output is middle 6 level, he was also brought into to be your 2C but has faltered in that role, being pushed to RW when he is even on the ice. Hey, I seem to remember that Caufield lost half a season due to injury when he tore his shoulder from a hit, does that make him injury prone too? Matter of fact, he's never played anywhere close to a full 82 game season yet.
Suzuki is better defensively? Is that why if you extrapolate out Zegras' +- to 356 games (Suzuki's NHL career total) you get 78.56, whilst Suzuki is a -79? Yeah, he's a defensive stud alright. And again, 81 of Zegras's games were on a team with a historically bad defense. You're buying the media talk that he can't play defense because pundits can't stand he's changing the way the game is played by being able to beat a goalie from behind the net.
Yeah man, 0.52 PPG is real scary, how could a team possibly compete with that kind of offensive powerhouse on the ice. Let's do some math again, 0.52*82 ~43 points, those are middle 6 numbers. Maybe Slaf continues to figure things out, but his hot streak was just that, a streak. Let's chat when he does 65 in a season.
7 points in 20 games is called a cold streak, not regression, and he was playing through an injury for 15 of those, so try again. But hey, who am I to try and convince you, clearly you know all there is to Zegras, like how the guy who started the rumour that was picked up and ran with has a 0% accuracy rating when it comes to Anaheim. Hell, he said Gibson would never play another game in Anaheim at the start of this season. Seravalli has nothing inside the Ducks org, almost no one does, otherwise the Gauthier rumours would have gotten out before the trade. The other insiders just have the common sense not to run their mouths when they have nothing like Frank has a tendency to do.