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Was out last night and didn't have a lot of time to post.
Not super happy with the Cozens pick. Not with Cozens himself, but the logic behind the pick. The Sabres had Zegras on the board, and passed. Highly skilled centers are hard to come by.
Cozens himself, I think is a safe pick. His upside at center is Jeff Carter - a shoot first center with elite physical traits, who can dominate possession and also make plays. If he doesn't pan out there, he can go to wing where he can use his size and speed, eventually developing into a power forward. With the way the playoffs are, he's the type of forward who can play in those physical contest.
However, I still take Zegras. I think Cozens ends up at winger. And you take the center over the winger.
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Johnson is a great pick. He's got Guhle's physical skills with Pysyk's game. He's a top 4 defensive defender who can cover for his partner. Well done by the Sabres.
Here on forward I will refer to Botterill as the common supervisor.How Jason Botterill is using the NHL draft to rebuild the Sabres
How Jason Botterill is utilizing the NHL draft to rebuild the Sabres - fooshya.com
Thanks to Paul Hamilton for translating into Finnish then back into English.
“Based on what I’ve seen over the last year-plus from the 2017 draft, they might have NHL players in every single slot,” Chris Peters, ESPN’s NHL draft analyst, stated.
I'd missed this over the weekend. Good mentor's mean so much.
This is a fair grade, IMO.
I do think that the likelihood grade is a little low given how safe I think the 1st rounders are to at least turn into servicable NHLers.
I popped that in the draft grading thread as well. Will and I have discussed their draft philosophy. He's even more to the side of higher-risk guys than I am and he is more down on Cozens than many. His vid on Johnson was pretty persuasive, long before he was even a Sabre draftee.
The one thing that I kind of laugh at with his Cozens take is that he's worried that Cozens doesn't have 1st line potential and is more of a middle 6 guy. With Eichel here, they don't need a #1 center. They need Cozens to be the Drury to Eichel's Briere.
I think he was talking about relative to draft position. It’s the idea of getting a first line talent at that location