NHL Community: Ken Daneyko on NHL Tonight on Trevor Zegras’ future with the Anaheim Geese, and if he’s accessible, which groups could possibly be suits for the ahead.
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Jamie Hersch: “As for Zegers himself, you already know, it’s nice to see him performing some vital off-ice work. The Geese are definitely hoping that he’ll have much more on-ice work to indicate for it to going ahead.
There’s two years left on his present deal and there’s at all times been talked the final two years about his future in Anaheim. Do you assume they’re nonetheless perhaps attempting to maneuver elsewhere? Or what do you assume must occur for him to take that subsequent step which is Geese?”
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Daneyko: “Nicely look, he had two years of 60-plus factors within the Nationwide Hockey League. That’s not simple to do. So we all know he’s extremely expert. The hings he can do with the puck loads of gamers can’t do. A really gifted younger man, no query about it.
Final yr was sort of a write-off yr actually for him. 31 video games, did handle to choose up 15 factors. It’s not nearly factors although, Jamie. It’s about how does he slot in with this youthful, they’ve a ton of younger expertise. That they had an actual robust yr final yr. It’s going to take a yr or two extra for this rebuilding challenge however as soon as all of them mesh and click on collectively, there’s, there’s loads of expertise there in Anaheim. And he even touched on it.
So is he going to be a part of that shifting ahead? That’s the attention-grabbing query and what intrigues me as nicely, since you bought loads of components there, and he can be an attention-grabbing piece for lots of different groups as nicely together with his talent and skills and groups that perhaps want a participant like Trevor Zegras. However all rumors proper now, and I feel for him, his major focus simply must be, ‘I’m going to coaching camp, I’m not deal proper now. I’m going to get again to being a constant staff participant, two-way man that’s going to work his tail off.’
And he’s bought to remain wholesome. We all know that he had a troublesome yr, with accidents as nicely. So, however he noticed so expert however that’s the character of beast right this moment. Look, I don’t care how good you might be, groups are at all times wanting so as to add to, subtract to, and it’s a must to hand over good gamers to get good gamers.
So it’d be that that’s one of many attention-grabbing storylines in Anaheim, is Trevor Zegras there for the lengthy haul or not? I imply, if he performs as much as his potential and continues to progress, he’s proper on the 200-game mark. He’s performed 211 video games within the Nationwide Hockey League. So it’s time to take that subsequent step of consistency. Understanding what it takes to win each shift, each recreation, each interval, and, and that’s for many younger gamers”
Hersch: “Yeah.”
Daneyko: “However we’ve heard the rumors too, proper? I imply, we hear grumblings they usually’re not at all times true, however often, the place there’s smoke, there’s fireplace, Anaheim could also be trying to make a cope with Trevor’s Zegras. We’ll see and if not, I want him the very best. He looks like an important, an important child and we all know the expertise he has.”
Hersch: “Actual fast, what’s one place that you just assume could possibly be a pleasant match for Zegras?
Daneyko: “Oh, he lives, he comes from this space. I imply, perhaps the New York Rangers, probably, is there a match there?
And the way in regards to the Washington Capitals? They added sort of all people within the final handful of years and guys that they need to get to a different stage or present that consistency. Dylan Strome involves thoughts, and he labored out fairly nicely to date in Washington.
Now, they went out and bought Pierre-Luc Dubois. Is he gonna discover a dwelling there with all that promise and expertise that he has, we all know, however he’s been shuffled round?
They’re the kind of staff that likes to …”
Hersch: “Reclamation challenge.”
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Daneyko: “… take flyers, reclamation challenge. And I wouldn’t name this a reclamation challenge. He’s a heck of a hockey participant however final yr, final yr was a bit of topsy turvy from what we heard. And sure, accidents was a part of that.
Hersch: “Nicely, typically a change of surroundings is what’s greatest for all events concerned. For now, Trevor Zegras is with the Anaheim Geese, and we sit up for seeing him on the ice in a while this fall.”