The Ducks fans are going to attack you

i mean, i would but thats not a great return. it COULD work if you added another 1st. and whats dvo there for?

You're new here, so we won't light you up for being the millionth person to post a variation of WPG 1st and Barron and Kidney.

If you want Zegras, it takes a blue chip asset to center the trade. That's MTLs 24 1st + Beck level prospect, Reinbacher + MTLs 25 2nd, or Slafkovsky straight up.

Yeah man, wrong 1st and or wrong players for Zegras

This simply doesn’t come close

"MTLs 24 1st + Beck level prospect" - if habs can get either Lindstrom, Catton, Iginla, or Eiserman; they could keep Beck and have a more rounded fwd (or around the same level fwd) for the future.
"Reinbacher + MTLs 25 2nd" - If the Habs traded away another young D who turned into McDonough or Sergachev, there would be riots - I think they will let him mature a bit to see what he can do in the NA game.
Slafkovsy has shown us what he is growing into (10G 14A in 32 games in calendar 2024 and not even 20 yet (plus the rest of his all around play in noticable). He looks very promising. If Slafkovsy was in a deal, the Ducks would realistically reed to include additional assets.

Anaheim adding nothing to anything, this is the cost of acquiring a young star player that's not on the market. You don't get them for spare parts and loose change.

We've provided three acceptable trade offers based on recent comps, you're just having a fit because you don't like the price tag.

I am not defending the proposal of the OP, but am stating the reason why I would not touch your counter offers. Slafkovsky has more value years before his prime than Zegras will in his prime. Nobody in the right mind would think Zegras for Slafkovsky 1-for-1 would be a reasonable trade for the Habs. Habs need help up front, but I would never pay those prices for Zegras.

And that's why Zegras won't be a Hab.