Proposal: MTL-BOS

Montreal gets kinda ripped off here IMO and I'm as far as you get from from a fan of theirs.
I don’t think so. Romanov got traded for 13th overall, and he was barely an established top-4 D at the time (if he even was). Zacha is an established 2C in his prime, so ~16th overall + a decent prospect seems pretty reasonable.

Also, from MTL’s perspective, they’re only trading surplus, really. They have two 1st rounders this year, and Beck, while decent, is nowhere near their best prospect. He’s also been made pretty redundant anytime soon by the Evans signing. Mailloux has several guys ahead of him on the depth chart, and his style of game is now redundant to the Habs with Hutson’s emergence.
 
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Rumor at last draft was Zegras and 2nd 2024 from 26th overall 2024 and Mailloux. No way they give a mid 1st and Mailloux for Zacha
Zegras is a much worse player than Zacha - he can’t win faceoffs and is ass defensively. And he doesn’t even produce like a top-six player anymore. Would’ve actually been a terrible trade for MTL. Some fans might want to pay for a couple past 60 point seasons where he had no defensive responsibilities on a shit team, but I wouldn’t.
 
Zegras is a much worse player than Zacha - he can’t win faceoffs and is ass defensively. And he doesn’t even produce like a top-six player anymore. Would’ve actually been a terrible trade for MTL. Some fans might want to pay for a couple past 60 point seasons where he had no defensive responsibilities on a shit team, but I wouldn’t.
Zacha had a career high of 36 points before he was traded to Boston, also last I checked Zegras has 15 point in the last 20 games
 
Zacha had a career high of 36 points before he was traded to Boston, also last I checked Zegras has 15 point in the last 20 games
Last I checked, Zacha has greatly improved since then, and Zegras has steadily regressed since he put up 60 points, nevermind that he was always terrible defensively and can’t win a faceoff to save his life.
 
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Last I checked, Zacha has greatly improved since then, and Zegras has steadily regressed since he put up 60 points, nevermind that he was always terrible defensively and can’t win a faceoff to save his life.
Well yeah, Zacha went from from a team that finished with 63, 45, and 68 points in his last 3 seasons in Jersey to a cup contender where he has been permanently stapled to David Pastrnak. If Zegras were to get traded to a contender and stapled to someone like Nikita Kucherov or Artemi Panarin his production would skyrocket too
 
Well yeah, Zacha went from from a team that finished with 63, 45, and 68 points in his last 3 seasons in Jersey to a cup contender where he has been permanently stapled to David Pastrnak. If Zegras were to get traded to a contender and stapled to someone like Nikita Kucherov or Artemi Panarin his production would skyrocket too
If Zegras were to get traded to a contender, he wouldn’t be playing C, not the way he plays now. He barely plays C in ANA from what I understand.

We are talking about filling the 2C slot in MTL; Zegras ain’t it. In MTL, he’d be on the 2nd or 3rd line as a winger.

I’m not interested in giving up any significant assets for a declining one-dimensional middle-six winger with injury concerns. No thanks.
 
If Zegras were to get traded to a contender, he wouldn’t be playing C, not the way he plays now. He barely plays C in ANA from what I understand.

We are talking about filling the 2C slot in MTL; Zegras ain’t it. In MTL, he’d be on the 2nd or 3rd line as a winger.

I’m not interested in giving up any significant assets for a declining one-dimensional middle-six winger with injury concerns. No thanks.
Whether you want him or not is not relevant to our conversation. I haven't once argued whether he would play center or wing. You slandered him as a player while pumping up Zacha, I disputed that.

Look how much better Bennett got in Florida, or how Cozens is doing right now in Ottawa. Sometimes a player just needs a change of scenery. Zegras is very likely one of those players.
 

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