Imagine if a week after the Habs lost the Stanley Cup Finals in 2021 the Ducks traded Comtois for Montreal's 1st round pick in 2022 while not being aware the Habs would become the worst team in the league and thought they'd return to the playoffs after making the finals.
How? Zegras is already a 1st line NHL center. There's a good chance that Wright never reaches the level we saw from Zegras's rookie season...
Zegras last season is indicative of a good 2C. He could get there next season or he could hit the infamous sophmore slump as teams know how to play against him better. One of the more entertaining players in the league but it's premature to call him a current 1C.
He finished 17th among centers in 5v5 points, and had 60 points in his last 69 games last year as a rookie playing on a weak offensive team. His most common linemate has been back and forth between the NHL and the AHL and had a career high 22 points before this year.
I would say the fact that no center from the CHL has scored >100 points in the NHL without doing so in their CHL draft year tells me it's worth mentioning.
This seems like selective stat picking. He finished tied #54-56 in ppg for center. Maybe ~5-7 slots higher since some players listed here don't regularly play center. He also finished 2nd on the team for icetime with ATOI only 20 seconds less than Terry, so the linemate argument doesn't pass.
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Yeah, that's one way to put it. Certainly the 100 point threshold is probably a bit aribitrary. But that was more or less my point - it's hard to score 100 points in the NHL. Only a few centers have been able to do it consistently over the past few decades, and all of them were much more dominant in their draft years than Wright.
You might want to filter out guys who only played a handful of games . . . Including them, I count 21 players that you need to removeThis seems like selective stat picking. He finished tied #54-56 in ppg for center. Maybe ~5-7 slots higher since some players listed here don't regularly play center. He also finished 2nd on the team for icetime with ATOI only 20 seconds less than Terry, so the linemate argument doesn't pass.
Ideally, you don't want your 1C to have 61 points in 75 games. Of course he isn't a finished product, though.
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2021-2022 regular season player stats for NHL, including top goal scorers, most games played, PPG leaders and more.
Change the number to even 10 or 15 or 20 if you like.
You realize Zegras just turned 21 right? Why would the Ducks trade him? He is part of the rebuild lol. He was the first pick the Ducks made after missing the playoffs the first time.
It's 21 per my updated post above. So that puts him 33rd despite <18 mins a game. Still ahead of guys like Barzal, O'Reilly, Suzuki, and Hertl.
can't forget about Buddy Robinson!
then when Wight does well in his first year, we can trade him for an even bigger haul and really kickstart the rebuild!!
Because he didn’t score 100 this year doesnt mean he won’t in the nhl.
Higher then Zegras? Really?
How does Wright have higher potential lol?
