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"Cozens is a Canada lad and there's no doubt in our minds he would love to play for Leafs being from Canada and all" - Some Toronto person in the near future.

This is why those around here looking down on the Östlund, Kisakov, Rosen, type of players should be a little more patient. Jack Hughes was amazing and just needed some time to get up to strength to do that in the NHL.

You accused everyone who had an issue with someone saying Kim and Terry having to deal with a major healthy issue was good for both the Sabres and Bills was guilty of "cancel culture" ... but sure personal attacks are dismaying. That is true. To be fair I think you are wrong, but I don't know if you are wrong.

Or put another way...

hahaha I math good today. he is certainly better than 10.56 teams 2nd line center.

lol

If we can get Dahlin at 9.75x8... oh my what a deal.

SO based on Dom's stuff this is a slight overpay but I think Dom's model as he himself notes, is underselling Dylan a bit.

Go look up Horvat's career shooting percentage and then what he is doing this year.

A couple of things. Cozens has not been up and down, he has steadily progressed each season he has played, this being his 3rd year. If you were to chart out the top 2 centers on every NHL team right now, I can guarantee you that Dylan Cozens would fall in the top 2/3. He is certainly better than 8 other teams 2nd center.

The NYI just locked up their top 2 centers to a combined 17.65mil so we should be pretty happy especially when one of ours is only about to turn 22.

I want you to look up Bo Horvat's career shooting percentage and his current shooting percentage.

Dylan Cozens is currently projected to finish the season with 81games 28goals 43assists for 71points. All he would need to do is maintain his current rate of play, not improve, just maintain. Either this offseason or next the cap will probably jump 6million bucks. It has been kept artificially low so the players can pay back escrow from the covid times and also Seattle's income has not fully been added to the ledger again because of the covid.

For as much crap as Adams' has gotten from the fans the moves to add Karmanos and Venura are consistently overlooked.

Since I think this is a bit, let's just casually compare Bo Horvat and Dylan Cozens. g/60 = goals per 60 minutes. xgf-xga is a measure of possession quality. Bo Horvat, 27 (28 b4 next season): 55.5cf%, 1.8g/60, 1.3a/60, 3.1p/60, 0.3 xgf-xga Dylan Cozens, 21 (22 b4 next season): 53.3cf%, 1.3g/60, 1.9a/60, 3.2p/60, 0.7 xgf-xga So the real question is would you rather pay a 22yr old for 7 years or a 28 year old for 7 years?

I'm not saying that Tage's deal set a precedent but... I did say that Tage's deal might at least help other things later.

What is also interesting is that Östlund has another year on his deal but that is only if Djurgardens get promoted back to the SHL. If not he can terminate and leave which paves the way for him to come to the AHL. Personally hope Djurgadens gets back up to the SHL. To put Östlund's production in context, if you limit the Allsveskan to u22 and sort by PPG, Östlund is 1st.

Interesting news that will impact Noah Östlund. His much higher touted draft and teammate injured his foot and will be out basically the rest of the season. Could mean more opportunity for Östlund.

Brain injuries are horrifying. My hope is that she still has all her physical faculties (walking and both hands) as that adds another layer on top of the loss of memory and mental issues (lapses, speech, cognition). Nothing is more heartbreaking than watching someone who knows exactly what they want to do (stand) be unable due to injury.

Your implication here is somewhat disgusting.

I wonder if they haven't done this because that would be all right shots on the top line and they want the versatility of having Skinner's left shot.