Thanks for this excellent video. If anything Zegras is currently underrated because casual fans just look at his points drop from 2 years ago. Now that Cronin is gone I expect that will change. I think another reason he’s hated is because so many NHL fans hate the Ducks. Even heard fans booing when Anaheim was up to make their first pick at the NHL draft last year.
Zegras is hated for the same reason why the NHL can't grow. It's very conservative, very "posh white". Which alienates almost 80% of any possible viewership. The NHL knows this, but long time fans want to gate keep the sport.
The funny part is other sports that do this (golf, weightlifting, figure skating, swimming) and all of them were dying/are dying if not for a generational start that can carry them. That's not a sustainable business model.
Thank You! This video is truly expresses how Ducks fans see Zegras. Look out in the next few years with better line mates and a better PP, his points will go up as the winning begins.
It's pretty self explanatory, why he is getting more disliked than the average duck. You've gotta wear fanboy goggles not [wanting] to see it…
PS: welcome to my "do not recommend videos from this clickbait channel to me ever again" list. He's not even universally hated, fcol ! Talk about making up a story out of thin air…
Lol @ the comments toward the bottom. They literally just say the stuff from the screenshots in your video, it's like they haven't even watched it and just went straight ahead to spill the hateful bile. Pathetic
I hate when people whine about offensive players' defensive issues. It's such a double standard, nobody says anything bad about a player's lack of scoring if they're a "defensive specialist."
No one hates the player. It's similar to Vince McMahon and the WWE with them shoving talents down people's throats that the fans don't like. It's just about how he was presented by the league. He was a young American talent playing for a market the NHL tries to advertise a lot to, so they pushed him in the spotlight too much, as they did with other Anaheim Ducks players in the past such as Corey Perry. He did well in his rookie season and other years, but he didn't do anything special that many other young players haven't done and in their rookie seasons for the last 15 years, especially the trickshots that other players already popularized and did multiple times with even bottom 6ers such as Nils Hoglander doing so. Any small thing he did, they overhyped insanely high, similar to Sportsnet and others with the Toronto Maple Leafs. They did the same thing with Andrei Svechnikov in his first few seasons that made people get sick of him for a while too. Despite that, they praised him to the moon and nominated him for the Calder Trophy, despite one other player being better than him that year. The NHL voters tend to do that a lot with players that get pushed by the league and media too. It's the whole reason why Austin Matthews won the Hart Trophy that year despite Connor McDavid still being better and more valuable and why you see many robberies such as Martin Brodeur winning the Vezina Trophy in 2007 over Roberto Luongo and based on which markets they play for. Again, there's nothing wrong with hyping up any plays with players who do any of that, but there's a clear bias with where he's from, the market, and so on when they don't with 95% of other players who do the same things. They might not have outright said he's on the same level as the top players in the league, but he's in that exclusive club of players they're bias towards like this, so you would have to be intentionally ignorant to not see why fans think they promote him as a top level talent. The cherry on top though, other than the EA NHL cover that tipped fans over the edge, is when the hockey media and league put him on a pedestal as some sort of amazing person for the game and a charismatic figure just for making some memes on social media that most players have been doing like athletes in other leagues for years. Once again, doing that stuff is fine and it's good for the game to have personalities, but almost all of the others have never gotten promoted by the NHL for it, as they don't play for a market they want to promote more such as a California-based team or aren't someone the league wants to push with being more niche. They did the same thing with the annoying Vegas Golden Knights Twitter guy, before he became hated by everybody for his crying, unsportsmanlike and distasteful posts, etc. that eventually got him fired, which is go crazy over any tiny posts by them and despite many of them being the unfunniest and most unoriginal stuff ever that every other NHL team social media guy has been doing, but since it was a new team the NHL wanted to succeed, they made a big deal out of it which, in return, annoyed everyone and was the first bullet that slowly began the hatred towards them, their egotistical players and drama, their LTIR antics like the Tampa Bay Lightning, etc. where they morphed into those rich bully antagonists in movies. If it wasn't for Gritty being funny and creative with his, the same thing likely would've happened and everyone would've gotten annoyed at the blatant attempt at being trendy with the whole Weird and Random = Good thing. Not that it wasn't blatantly trying to be that from the beginning, but it was still done well, so no one cared. People cared about the Carolina Hurricanes postgame celebration and social media antics after a little while, because it screamed of desperation to seem relevant at the time, but that's a totally different thing on its own. Regardless, after all of that, it made people hate him and start to nitpick anything he does such as his one elbow, confrontation with Troy Stecher where people claim he mentioned one of his family members who passed away, his scoring falling off, etc. and to continue to push their narrative that he was always bad and a corporate plant talent. The best way to describe Trevor Zegras is he's the Roman Reigns of the NHL. A good talent, but was thrust into the limelight, on the same level as the best players in the league while trying to forcefully tell fans to like them which made them, unfairly, get mountains of hate as they kept doing it for 5 years with Trevor Zegras and 10 years with Roman Reigns. It sucks, but the NHL 100% did this to themselves and it's more than reasonable to understand why fans feel this way about Trevor Zegras now. To claim that they never do so, despite putting him on the cover, is dishonest.
Sharks fan here and I have nothing but love for Zegs. His confidence/swagger/style is unmatched, his mitts are straight silk, and he has the balls to be creative in today's NHL despite the criticism he has received for it. He is fun to watch hockey, and I have always wanted him to break through as a true bonafide superstar in the league. I've never understood the mass hate that Zegras has gotten, just for his love of the game.
I think some of the hate comes from the fact that he's not an all star caliber player, yet he was on the front cover of NHL 2023…And then he had a bad season where his point total went way down right after that… Not that he deserved the hate, but it may have something to do with it 🤷
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Thanks for this excellent video. If anything Zegras is currently underrated because casual fans just look at his points drop from 2 years ago. Now that Cronin is gone I expect that will change. I think another reason he’s hated is because so many NHL fans hate the Ducks. Even heard fans booing when Anaheim was up to make their first pick at the NHL draft last year.
Excellent take. Thanks for your insight ✌🏻
Zegras is hated for the same reason why the NHL can't grow. It's very conservative, very "posh white". Which alienates almost 80% of any possible viewership. The NHL knows this, but long time fans want to gate keep the sport.
The funny part is other sports that do this (golf, weightlifting, figure skating, swimming) and all of them were dying/are dying if not for a generational start that can carry them. That's not a sustainable business model.
I've always wanted the Capitals to trade for Zegs… I like his play.
Thank You! This video is truly expresses how Ducks fans see Zegras. Look out in the next few years with better line mates and a better PP, his points will go up as the winning begins.
I hate him because he broke me -Kraken penalty box camera
It's pretty self explanatory, why he is getting more disliked than the average duck.
You've gotta wear fanboy goggles not [wanting] to see it…
PS: welcome to my "do not recommend videos from this clickbait channel to me ever again" list.
He's not even universally hated, fcol !
Talk about making up a story out of thin air…
Lol @ the comments toward the bottom. They literally just say the stuff from the screenshots in your video, it's like they haven't even watched it and just went straight ahead to spill the hateful bile. Pathetic
I hate when people whine about offensive players' defensive issues. It's such a double standard, nobody says anything bad about a player's lack of scoring if they're a "defensive specialist."
He did well at BU, no way he’d be traded this early.
No one hates the player. It's similar to Vince McMahon and the WWE with them shoving talents down people's throats that the fans don't like. It's just about how he was presented by the league. He was a young American talent playing for a market the NHL tries to advertise a lot to, so they pushed him in the spotlight too much, as they did with other Anaheim Ducks players in the past such as Corey Perry. He did well in his rookie season and other years, but he didn't do anything special that many other young players haven't done and in their rookie seasons for the last 15 years, especially the trickshots that other players already popularized and did multiple times with even bottom 6ers such as Nils Hoglander doing so. Any small thing he did, they overhyped insanely high, similar to Sportsnet and others with the Toronto Maple Leafs. They did the same thing with Andrei Svechnikov in his first few seasons that made people get sick of him for a while too. Despite that, they praised him to the moon and nominated him for the Calder Trophy, despite one other player being better than him that year. The NHL voters tend to do that a lot with players that get pushed by the league and media too. It's the whole reason why Austin Matthews won the Hart Trophy that year despite Connor McDavid still being better and more valuable and why you see many robberies such as Martin Brodeur winning the Vezina Trophy in 2007 over Roberto Luongo and based on which markets they play for. Again, there's nothing wrong with hyping up any plays with players who do any of that, but there's a clear bias with where he's from, the market, and so on when they don't with 95% of other players who do the same things. They might not have outright said he's on the same level as the top players in the league, but he's in that exclusive club of players they're bias towards like this, so you would have to be intentionally ignorant to not see why fans think they promote him as a top level talent. The cherry on top though, other than the EA NHL cover that tipped fans over the edge, is when the hockey media and league put him on a pedestal as some sort of amazing person for the game and a charismatic figure just for making some memes on social media that most players have been doing like athletes in other leagues for years. Once again, doing that stuff is fine and it's good for the game to have personalities, but almost all of the others have never gotten promoted by the NHL for it, as they don't play for a market they want to promote more such as a California-based team or aren't someone the league wants to push with being more niche. They did the same thing with the annoying Vegas Golden Knights Twitter guy, before he became hated by everybody for his crying, unsportsmanlike and distasteful posts, etc. that eventually got him fired, which is go crazy over any tiny posts by them and despite many of them being the unfunniest and most unoriginal stuff ever that every other NHL team social media guy has been doing, but since it was a new team the NHL wanted to succeed, they made a big deal out of it which, in return, annoyed everyone and was the first bullet that slowly began the hatred towards them, their egotistical players and drama, their LTIR antics like the Tampa Bay Lightning, etc. where they morphed into those rich bully antagonists in movies. If it wasn't for Gritty being funny and creative with his, the same thing likely would've happened and everyone would've gotten annoyed at the blatant attempt at being trendy with the whole Weird and Random = Good thing. Not that it wasn't blatantly trying to be that from the beginning, but it was still done well, so no one cared. People cared about the Carolina Hurricanes postgame celebration and social media antics after a little while, because it screamed of desperation to seem relevant at the time, but that's a totally different thing on its own. Regardless, after all of that, it made people hate him and start to nitpick anything he does such as his one elbow, confrontation with Troy Stecher where people claim he mentioned one of his family members who passed away, his scoring falling off, etc. and to continue to push their narrative that he was always bad and a corporate plant talent. The best way to describe Trevor Zegras is he's the Roman Reigns of the NHL. A good talent, but was thrust into the limelight, on the same level as the best players in the league while trying to forcefully tell fans to like them which made them, unfairly, get mountains of hate as they kept doing it for 5 years with Trevor Zegras and 10 years with Roman Reigns. It sucks, but the NHL 100% did this to themselves and it's more than reasonable to understand why fans feel this way about Trevor Zegras now. To claim that they never do so, despite putting him on the cover, is dishonest.
Great video
Sharks fan here and I have nothing but love for Zegs. His confidence/swagger/style is unmatched, his mitts are straight silk, and he has the balls to be creative in today's NHL despite the criticism he has received for it. He is fun to watch hockey, and I have always wanted him to break through as a true bonafide superstar in the league. I've never understood the mass hate that Zegras has gotten, just for his love of the game.
You FN beautiful human…Love the cadence and flow
Surely it couldn’t be the “my father will hear about this” attitude? Nooo the fans are wrong
Stick to dungeons and dragons boy
He's made of glass
I think some of the hate comes from the fact that he's not an all star caliber player, yet he was on the front cover of NHL 2023…And then he had a bad season where his point total went way down right after that… Not that he deserved the hate, but it may have something to do with it 🤷
As a Vancouverite and die hard canucks fan i hope Trevor Zegres gets signed here in Vancouver. Or a trade happens we get him.
What does Zegras do? He’s not physical doesn’t kill penalties, not dominate on the power play he’s a nothing player
Had no opinion on Zegras so far, now really like the guy. Good job 👍 😅