Quoting: CaseyFlyman
KJ is a full year younger and has only played 1.5 NHL seasons. Zegras is essentially a 3.5 year vet. It's too early to compare NHL point totals.
Zegras is a great player, I'd love to see CBJ trade for him if he's available, but the regression and injuries are concerning. Their ceilings should be about the same (PPG to 100+ points?) but it's just too early to swap them IMO.
I guess that’s my point. 1 year or so apart isnt much. Comparing their points at the same level of experience, Z had 74pts in his first 1.5 seasons across 99 games. It’s totally too early to definitively say anything, but sample sizes over 100 games aren’t nothing, and they pretty clearly favor Z so I guess I was just surprised that someone would defijitively prefer KJ straight up.
As for injuries, Z played 156 of 164 games across the last 2 years. Injuries hit everyone sometimes, but his history is not one suggesting he’s an injury prone player
If you’ve watched him this year his play doesn’t suggest regression. Pts over the 20 game sample do, but not his on-ice play. If anything his 200ft game has made huge improvements.
To each their own I guess!