Cozens is a player Chevy should push hard for. He has got caught up in Buffalo’s never ending rebuild. Great opportunity for a team to steal away a big top 6 center signed long term. As a 21 y/o he put up 31 goals and 68 points and the stink has just pulled him down since. At last year’s World Championship he had 9 goals away from the stink. You drop into the current Jet’s roster at #2 C he probably gets 70+ points. Cozens presents a great opportunity for an aggressive GM.
How does he get those points? Are we kicking Ehlers off the top PP, which Cozens gets in Buffalo?
That alone drops the point totals.
Looking at his usage it's very similar to Namestnikov's, a lot of O-zone starts with poorer defensive results. And similar offensive results. Can't say if that's the player or the system, because I don't watch Buffalo, thank God.
There's obviously a lot of attributes to the player.
But I am just a realist, I don't see Chevy trading any player who is signed here for another player. I can't think of the Jets ever making that kind of trade, other than Kane, for obvious reasons. The Jets dressing room is something that is built with a lot of pieces that have come to fit. It's tight nit.
Maybe that's the problem, I don't know. A lot of GMs will aggressively make changes.
But I like the chemistry that is there between Namestnikov and Chibrikov so far. With Perfetti too.
I see teams with more expendable assets, which the Jets don't necessarily have or want to trade being in a better position here.