Dylan Cozens Named WHL Eastern Conference Player of the Year

[Brawndo]

 

[MakeSabresGrr8Again]

Only the Eastern Conference? This has "bust" written all over it and JBot needs to be fired for this immediately, LOL.

Congrats to Dylan and hope he has a long and successful SABRES career. 

[dudacek]

Get the dog sleds ready: Yukon Jesus is coming.

[nfreeman]

He is The One.

[DarthEbriate]

57 minutes ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:

Am I the only one that has a headache after thinking about the Eastern Conference of the Western Hockey League?

What's really going to blow your mind is that this also makes him the Player of the Year of the Central Division (not the East Division, mind you) of the Eastern Conference of the Western Hockey League. ?

[LGR4GM]

It is amazing what happens when you don't rule out an entire league of talent for your drafting purposes because you have some stupid misguided idea about needing 4 years for every prospect to figure out if they will make it. But hey, at least they didn't ***** up this pick like the other one. Cozens is going to be good. 

[DarthEbriate]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

It is amazing what happens when you don't rule out an entire league of talent for your drafting purposes because you have some stupid misguided idea about needing 4 years for every prospect to figure out if they will make it. But hey, at least they didn't ***** up this pick like the other one. Cozens is going to be good. 

Hehehe. Nahh, it's just that the BAP is always in the NCAA or US NTDP. Only a JBot deals in absolutes!

[GASabresIUFAN]

8 hours ago, dudacek said:

Get the dog sleds ready: Yukon Jesus is coming.

Wasn’t he is the Rudolph cartoon?

[DarthEbriate]

3 hours ago, Let's Go B-Lo said:

So...he plays in Saskatchewan?

With apologies to our Canadian 'Spacers, I confirmed via map: Lethbridge is in Alberta. 

[LGR4GM]

The nice thing if you watch Cozens is that he drive the net, his shot is getting better, he is fast, he uses his body. He really works hard out there. As much s#!t as I give the Sabres on scouting, they do seem to want hard workers which is a plus. Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard.

[Tondas]

10 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

The nice thing if you watch Cozens is that he drive the net, his shot is getting better, he is fast, he uses his body. He really works hard out there. As much s#!t as I give the Sabres on scouting, they do seem to want hard workers which is a plus. Hard work beats talent when talent refuses to work hard.

Agree 100%.  Wasn't it Herb Brooks that said, "We're not talented enough to win on talent alone."

[North Buffalo]

1 hour ago, Tondas said:

Agree 100%.  Wasn't it Herb Brooks that said, "We're not talented enough to win on talent alone."

True but as is turns out, given how many of those guys played a long time in the NHL, that was one talented hockey team...

[MakeSabresGrr8Again]

On 4/21/2020 at 1:11 PM, dudacek said:

Get the dog sleds ready: Yukon Jesus is coming.

This belongs in the New Religion Thread. ?

[Claude Balls]

On 4/21/2020 at 7:56 PM, Let's Go B-Lo said:

So...he plays in Saskatchewan?

I thought it was Saskatchatoon

 

[Thorner]

On 4/21/2020 at 12:47 PM, LGR4GM said:

It is amazing what happens when you don't rule out an entire league of talent for your drafting purposes because you have some stupid misguided idea about needing 4 years for every prospect to figure out if they will make it. But hey, at least they didn't ***** up this pick like the other one. Cozens is going to be good. 

It will continue being a defining practice of Botterill's draft strategy. CHL players are an option in the first round, with a high pick, but he's not selecting anyone from the CHL outside of that, as we've seen in 3 full drafts already. 

Edited April 30, 2020 by Thorny