If you swap Harris for Kovacevic, maybe Barron, you're in the ballpark.

that pick alone is too much for zegras, and i'm no montreal fan.

On what possible grounds? Zegras is a top 6 player on any team in the league, redraft his class today and he goes top 5, and Anaheim is under no pressure to move him. It's a weak draft, you hope the player taken at 5 this year is as good as Zegras already is. On top of that he just turned 23 a month and a half ago, he's just off his ELC.

Anaheims the one taking the risk here because the guy taken at 5 has a ceiling of Zegras but could also bust.

That's fine. I think 2/3 of Kovacevic, Harris and Barron are leaving anyways. Whoever leaves in this trade doesn't really mather. If it's Barron tho I think the pick is a 4th or a 5th rounder.

i don't think zegras is good. he's very one dimensional, stinks away from the puck, and that one-dimension just isn't that good. 65 points and 23 goals as career highs doesn't really move the needle for me given how bad other areas of his game are. i don't think he helps you win.

Plus Montreal need a forward and besides if Lindstrom is still there (which he probably won't be), the best available is Iginla which is fine but a bit of a reach at 5th overall. I'd much rather have Zegras who can make an impact right now.

He did that in his sophomore season which beats out almost every current superstar forward in the league. Nathan MacKinnon had a worse sophomore season, EP40 was comparable, Eichel was comparable. You're acting like 65 points is all Zegras is ever going to be when he did that his second year in the league, on a team that was significantly worse than his freshman campaign, in spite of the fact that most players suffer a sophomore slump. The belief that's he's not good is completely unfounded.

right, so you're ignoring about 90% of what i said. 65 points is fine. 65 points is nice. 65 points can be great.....but he's a one trick pony. if the one trick isn't that good, the player isn't that good. He's an extremely flawed player and I don't think he helps you win. I could see him playing like a phil kessel in pittsburgh role and being successful...third line and PP specialist. other than that, i think he's kind of useless.

And you're completely missing the point, 65 points was a taster, not his ceiling, he's got PPG ability written all over him. Pastranak was 0.5 PPG his first two seasons in the league, players take time to develop, and Zegras has been developing his defensive game. This whole "one trick pony" crap is buying into media crap and not actually bothering to watch him play.

and if he's a point per game player, i don't think he's very good.

everything else he does sucks.

Then Cole Caufield, who is the perfect comparable if there ever was such a thing as a comparable, isn't any good, either.

It's utterly absurd to talk about "career highs" for someone who is 23 and just had a season completely derailed by two different serious injuries. Brad Marchand turned 28 toward the end of the season in which he first cracked 60 points. In his age-23 year, Nico Hischier scored 60 points for the first time (after playing almost 300 games), a level Zegras has reached twice (in 180).

You can make the argument that pure one-dimensional scorers like Cole Caufield don't "help" you win, but line drivers like Zegras whose primary scoring ability is via assists are essential to success.

if you had actually read my posts, you would see it wasn't really about career highs. it was about how bad zegras is at the other parts of the game. he stinks.

i'm not very high on caufield either, but he certainly has a more well rounded game than zegras.

You very clearly didn't watch Zegras play this year.

i did. i'm just unbiased.

he sucks.

Haha, you just don't know what you're talking about then. All good, much easier that way.

one dimensional. he's the same player he was at BU. non factor in the NHL. but hey he gets some cool goals so folks will always overrate him.