Why is Zegras being discussed in a thread that’s ostensibly about MTL and NJ? Can’t this be closed at this point? Maybe someone can start a thread for “The players on my team that didn’t make the playoffs are much better than the players in your team that also didn’t make the playoffs” so people can have these pointless repetitive and predictable arguments that boil down to subjective opinions. And we can’t forget the editorial insults. It’s important someone else’s opinion he mocked.
Zegras came into it when I was trying to figure out what a person's definition of "proven young top line forward" as a trade value for Guhle. Zegras was the only reasonable one that came to mind value wise as a guy who you could define as that while still somewhat fitting value wise.
As the only other guys I'd consider fitting under that umbrella of 1st line guy, 2019 draft class or later (Hughes, Raymond, Laffy, Caufield, Boldy, Jarvis, Cozens, Bedard, beniers) wouldn't make too much sense.
So I asked if a Zegras is what they are viewing under that umbrella, and since I had previously said I would want an add from MTL in a Guhle Mercer swap, an MTL fan tried to turn it into a Zegras vs Mercer debate (in which I would prefer Mercer due to him being a year younger, better defensively, and a better goal scorer who should be able to be signed much cheaper than the 5.75x2 Zegras has left, although I can understand the perspective of preffering Zegras offensive upside, especially for a team like MTL who is looking for that scoring punch)