Ex-Flyers Goalie Having Strong Year With New Team
This former Flyers goalie is impressing with his new team.
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Mike, revisiting this trade, I mean, do you consider Zegras to be a steal for the Flyers, given the production that he's given them so far?
And also keeping in mind that he's an RFA at the end of the year.
He's only 24, has a $5.75 million cap hit right now.
So, you know, do you think this was a steal, and is it going to continue to be a steal if they, you know, sign him to this next contract?
He was a steal.
I mean, Ryan Poehling in the second, and I think there was a conditional draft pick along with it, for a player who's leading your team in scoring.
the only negative about Zegras is if they were trading for him to be a center, he's not a center.
He's not good on face-offs, he's not good defensively.
But this trade sort of makes up for the bad trade that they made trading Cutter Gauthier, for a second-round pick and Jamie Drysdale.
Drysdale has not panned out as well as they expected, and Cutter Gauthier, as we know, is playing comple- he's, he's going crazy right now in Anaheim.
He's got 18 goals.
So it sort of balances out, but your point is well made, Emma.
they're gonna have to pay him.
Now, the thing is, he's not gonna be paid as a center, so I don't think he's gonna get to that $10 million mark, but he could get to eight-and-a-half to nine million, and they're gonna have to pay him because they need him, with a bunch of young forwards like Forster, who's hurt, and Mishkov, they need the steady offense that, Zegras provides.
