That ship has sailed I think. Zacha is having the most productive season of his career (okay, not saying much) and is an great penalty killer still.
I like Zacha's game, I don't think he will ever live to his draft position and the expectations with what others drafted behind him are producing if you only look at his offensive number, he is a solid player with a much more well rounded complete game than Puljujarvi could ever hope to have. He really reminds me of a young Kevin Hayes without the occasional offensive wizadry that Hayes sometimes shows, but the strong overall game is still the same.
At this point if we got the same type of play out of Andersson as the Devils get out of Zacha I would jump for joy. Lias is the bust people think Zacha is. Only difference is the 2017 draft will never be under the same microscope as 2015 and it's been well documented since we traded for that pick that we were fully planning on drafting Pettersson and when the Canucks snagged him we panicked and took the "next best thing" so we somehow get a pass here. Which is total BS and hence my tagline of "FIRE GC".
The Rangers are very lucky that they play in NY and that Fox and Panarin forced their way to play here and that Melnyk traded us Zibanejad for monetary reasons (and we got a 2nd in that trade too) because other than Igor those are the best things we have going for us at the moment and what set us apart from being right there with Ottawa and Detroit. Yeah I'm furious about this Lias debacle / end rant.
