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 Adam
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Bringing this back over here, because the Holloway thread really isn't the place to debate Zegras vs. Broberg:
| RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 17 February 2022 12:57 |
The whole point of my reply was you are looking at Zegra right now and comparing him to Broberg. Right now, does Zegras look great with his lacrosse goals, you bet. He sure looks flashy and talented, no doubt about it. But in a year or 2 from now, if Broberg lives up to his potential and he's in the Oilers second pair rushing and moving pucks and giving you 20 mins a night, that pick will look pretty good in my opinion.
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Zegras is currently the Ducks' second leading scorer with 33 points in 42 games. On the Oilers, he'd be 4th behind only 97, 29 and 93. A first line forward is worth more than a 2nd pairing defenceman.
So if Broberg is a solid second pairing guy in a couple years, we should be glad that he is, but also capable of seeing that our GM made a blunder there, going off the board for someone who, just like all the experts believed, wasn't as good as the guy they could have had.
Assuming that Zegras isn't a flash in the pan, if he continues to score like he has as a rookie, then Broberg is going to need to be more than just a decent second pair guy to cover that bet.
Could teams all use good second pair defencemen? Absolutely - it still doesn't make them better than star forwards. Had we got Travis Hamonic instead of Griffin Reinhart for the Barzal pick, we still would have lost that deal, even though Hamonic is a real 2nd pairing defencemen.
This shouldn't be that controversial or hard to follow...
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