Empoleon8771
Registered User
Prime kunitz as a minimum is just a ridiculous bar. Dude was really damn good.
Why should Zucker not be held up to that standard? The expectation should be that Zucker should be at that level, because Zucker is that good and they paid a lot for him.
Zucker is an established top-6 winger who averaged basically 20 ES goals and 40 ES points per 82 games with the Wild. The Penguins traded a lot for him. If he's not even capable of breaking what he did in Minnesota, while playing for a defensive team without a great 1C, the Penguins made a bad trade. Holding Zucker to be on par with prime Kunitz is not a ridiculous bar because he's supposed to be that good. If expecting Zucker to produce like Kunitz is a "ridiculous bar", why even trade for Zucker when you already have Kahun? You already have a LWer that's producing at the kind of numbers thrown in here for Zucker, and they didn't trade a 1st and Addison for that LWer.