Did Zegras have Rangers PJ's like Tavares had Leafs PJ's?

Zegras is overrated, Drury would be a fool to do this.

Take out Zegras and LaFreniere, and we'll take Goodrow off your hands for you.

Lmao you're not getting Kakko and a 1st to take on a guy the Rangers don't need to move this year

Honestly prob fair value. I low-key wouldn’t do it as NY. Kakko would prob pop off in ANA playing in the top 6 wing, but he could pop off in NY

He was included in this ACGM, so I accepted the OP's premise that he's a cap dump.

The first is for Perreault, by the way.

He’d be the top center on the rangers

Rangers get a young 1C for two players not guaranteed to be top 6 guys. Anaheim would never do this.

Kakko and Laf ceilings are 2nd line forwards

No he wouldn't. I take Zibanejad over him any day of the week. Zegras can't play defense and passes up good scoring chances in favor of looking flashy.

And Laf and Kakko aren't?

No thanks. If he’s really a Rangers fan, then he can sign a contract leading to UFA and sign in the off-season

First for Perreault who hasn’t done much in the AHL? No thanks

Seems like a bad trade for both teams.

Well, it was either that or Kakko for Perreault, which doesn't seem fair at all.

Sneering at Perreault's upside seems a little dangerous in the context of simultaneously discussing Kakko and LaFreniere.

The entire outline is irretrievably defective, because Zegras (65 points) is worth more to us than Kakko and LaFreniere (combined 79 points), and Perreault is worth more to us than Goodrow and the first.

Producing 40 points at the nhl level on the 3rd line vs 3 seasons of under 40 in the AHL isn’t even close to the same thing lol. The NHL and AHL are completely different, so Laffy and Kakko are obviously way better than Perreault

And this trade doesn’t make sense to begin with because they don’t need another $8m center while becoming weaker in other parts of the lineup

Considering how so many people on this community think their team can acquire them for scraps, they're underrated if anything.

That's probably because the Rangers have ruined their development and they're turning into middle 6 ceiling players.

Zegras is very good defensively, you must not watch him much. Zibanejad is an overpaid powerplay specialist

That's the tmz narrative. Both were NYR lottery curse wins. Would have been better off without those "wins"! They were unanimous, yet everyone knew there were better options. First, Kakko is Kreider 2.o, long solid career with lots of patience unfortunately, but a keeper. Laf will be 60pt gritty W with an up & down long career, trade asset after this season. Throwing them onto the first line would not have made them into stars, probably would have PuljPulj or Yak them...

Dude analytically Zegras is literally one of the worst player defensively in the league. Zibanejad also has good stats at 5v5. It's you who clearly is mis-informed.