Zegras Trade before deadline

Sorry the 2nd is only transfered if the Habs 1st is top 5 and sent to Anaheim, otherwise the Ducks keep it

Thanks for laying this out for everyone.

Now can all the other Habs fans who think that they're getting Zegras for spare parts PLEASE stop annoying us?

i think zegras is pretty overrated, but that condition is just silly. imagine that phone call.
"we'll give you first rounder in 2024."
"wow, that's great, we place a ton of value on that pick as it's likely to be very high."
"well, you can't have it if it's a high pick."

Are you bent? This happens all the time, teams add all kinds of protections to picks. Top 10 protected, lottery protected, top 5 protected, top 3 protected. It literally happens at least once a year. In this instance Zegras isn't worth any one of Celebrini/Eiserman/Lindstrom/Levshunov + Mesar + Farrell, so protection has to be added incase any of those are available. Now Habs also don't need Levshunov so that would be why they would trade their 2024 1st even if it was top 5 but would also need to get back a bit of value since Levshunov + Mesar + Farrell is too much for Zegras

Remove Farrell and the 2nd and that’s probably fair value. That said, I see no reason ANA should move him for fair value right now when they need exactly what he brings, so I’d still expect that they don’t entertain it