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Why do you hate Harris? Skate’s too well and his vision is too much for you?
HF Habs: Trade Proposal Thread #86: 2023-2024 Season
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I'm hoping Primeau nets us a 3rd. Go with Allen & Montembeault. It's possible Allen goes if Sabres are desperate. Both their goalies are worse than Allen. They have a ton of prospects too.
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I think a 3rd is insanely optimistic for Primeau who hasn't proven anything. I guess Allen makes some sense for the Sabres but I doubt we get a prospect since Allen stinks. Maybe something along the lines of Oloffson for Allen could work.
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Buffalo has tons of cap room, so it's possible it's just draft picks - assuming Buffalo is interested. Something like a 2nd in 2024, 4th in 2025.
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He skates as well as Mete, yeah. Soft as butter, doesn't get shots through, has no offensive awareness, not good enough defensively... He's Brett Kulak, basically.
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With a year in the nhl already , it’s probably too long for the instant gratification generation
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MTL doesn't need Broberg and EDM doesn't need Primeau, so it is very easy
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He's having a terrible time and seems like he needs a change of air. A buy-low candidate for sure...
I think he's a MSL-style player. I'd take him on.
Is Zegras willing to play the game in front of him and adapt his game to the game?
He is a great player to sell Tickets. Is he a great player to win games though ?
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He's having a tough year. Some players just need a change of scenery. Dach and Newhook come to mind, why not Zegras?
Is Caufield a player to win games? We've lost every season Caufield was here. Is Suzuki a player to win games? etc. Is Josh Anderson a player to win games?
Seems like a difficult question to answer -- all I know is Zegras is a very skilled and very young player who has high hockey IQ and has had two 60pt seasons in his very short career so far (and on a bad team, no less). MSL's system needs players like him. If we can acquire him for cheap it's a no brainer imo.
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MSL & HuGo should have good insight - former coached him w Mid Fairfield Rangers, and latter with Avon Old Farms & BU contacts
My point was not related to ANA rebuild cycle more to the fact that Zegras has great hands, scores Lacrosse goals, but seems to avoid paying the price as mich as he can, is not a great two way player either. he is talented, no denying just not sure he is a top line player if you want to win a cup.
Let me say this, no team especially Anaheim will sell low on young players and potential franchise player like Trevor Z and therr would be a bidding war
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Anaheim would be smart to not sell-low. If Kent Hughes is a good GM he's trying to get a sniff to figure out what's going on. I think it's fair for Habs fans to covet a player even if the player's team's fans don't want him sold. This is the Trade Proposal thread, after all.
Do you think he's a toxic player who'd refuse to listen to his coach's tactics and actively prevent good things from happening for his trio with hotdogging or an aversion to contact? I'm not sure, I never really watch non-Habs games and what I see from Zegras is a very skilled player who pulls off skill moves like I haven't seen Habs players pull in decades. I think his strengths are precisely what the Habs lack.
His coach says that despite the bad production he feels Zegras is trying to improve his two-way game
If we're expecting our struggling young NHL players to improve, and we've already seen investments in other struggling young NHL players (Newhook, Dach) why not bet on the highly-skilled player to improve?
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Zegras is a tik tok star, not a great hockey player which is why Anaheim won't pay him.
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Of course not, but Zegras is also not a Pat “little ball of hate” Verbeek type player - make no doubt though, the GM will get his way in this battle, be it the player caves & modifies his game, incorporating more completeness, or is dealt to parts unknown
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Like Kent Johnson, Matty Beniers, and a slew of USNTDP 1st round picks in recent history. Can thrown Caufield into the mix as well - all lack defensive acumen
That’s also why MSL & Hughes were brilliant hires for the Habs in the present - given their experience coaching this generation of player & many of them specifically through the ranks of competitive youth hockey programs in CT and Boston
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I think post meant - it’s why Ana wouldn’t cave to Zegras’ asking $alary on a long term deal - instead ramming a lower AAV short term deal down his throat
Recall Zegras was rumored seeking a Caufield type deal
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