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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 29, 2023 at 3:13 a.m.
Thread: big splash
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Larrylnh</b></div><div>I analyze couple of game of Zegras because I was wondering if he was that good and for real, his defensive play was his big weakness and I don't know, I feel like he didn't play with his hearth.
Since the start of December, Slafkovsky is on a whole other level go check his stat but not just his stat, how he play. He is by far the best player in Montreal. Big player like Byfield, Lafrenière, Slafkovsky is longer to develop.</div></div>

So Zegras is never going to win a Selkie, I don't need him to if he's going to put up 80-100 points every year throughout his prime. He's also working on his defense, and is significantly improved this season. His 12 game slump? Was trying to play through an injury, he's also had points in every game since he returned.

Slaf has 22 points across his first 72 games. Even Laf did that in 52 games. He's a European player, if he was going to take longer to develop, he should have been sent to Laval for a few seasons and gotten an ELC slide, but instead he was rushed to the NHL and his development has been mishandled because it was assumed he would be an immediate difference maker and he's not. And what upside are you looking at, Laf? Yeah 50 point seasons, real impact player for a 1OA.

Look through the last 10 drafts at the big guys that went in the top 5 picks. Most of them flamed out from Star talent and are just run if the mill top 6 guys putting up ~50 pts a season, or worse are bottom 6 to no longer active. Those who have risen to the point of Franchise players showed a scoring knack early on, and Slaf just isn't. So he'll project to be what, middle 6 winger with second line upside? Meanwhile Zegras is going to be PPG+. Now factor in that Reinbacher is taking a step back this season when he should be strongly taking a step forward. Both of them were reaches, and if I'm Anaheim, I'm risking being able to get them both close enough to their ceilings that it looks like we won the trade for sending our an all-star level center.