SlapJack
Scum bag Sens
- Dec 6, 2010
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Norris is quick, smart, good defensively, excellent at faceoffs, has a great shot, plays #1PP and kills penalties. He's seriously underrated because of a few injuries and his contract. Ottawa's taking the bigger risk here, I don't think Cozens at $900K less is either an improvement or enough of a salary difference to make up the difference between these guys.
Cozens has to be better than he's shown in Buffalo. Entirely possible, but Buffalo got the best player in this deal and until proven otherwise, this is a massive risk at a weird time to do it. There's been rumours all year shit Norris on the block, and I've never felt that they would get a good enough return to pull the trigger, especially considering that he's Brady's best friend. Upsetting the apple cart like this now could derail what was a very good chance at the playoffs.
The acquisition of Zetterlund makes this a little better because I really had no idea how the lines were gonna work before that. I thought it was too much of a downgrade to put Cozens at 2C and Sabres fans might be right when they say Cozens would be better suited at wing. Ottawa does have the luxury of Grieg being fully capable of handling 3C and Pinto at 2, but that diminishes the 3rd line and Cozens in the top 6 instead of Norris was also a minus.
I'll give the W to Buffalo but with hope that Cozens can be a good contributor. I'll be so pissed if not, I REALLY loved having that Stützle Norris Pinto trio up the middle, and felt the injury concerns were way overblown.
Only immediate positive is not having to listen to other Sens fans talk about putting Norris on the wing every day. But that'll probably be wished upon Cozens soon enough lol
Cozens has to be better than he's shown in Buffalo. Entirely possible, but Buffalo got the best player in this deal and until proven otherwise, this is a massive risk at a weird time to do it. There's been rumours all year shit Norris on the block, and I've never felt that they would get a good enough return to pull the trigger, especially considering that he's Brady's best friend. Upsetting the apple cart like this now could derail what was a very good chance at the playoffs.
The acquisition of Zetterlund makes this a little better because I really had no idea how the lines were gonna work before that. I thought it was too much of a downgrade to put Cozens at 2C and Sabres fans might be right when they say Cozens would be better suited at wing. Ottawa does have the luxury of Grieg being fully capable of handling 3C and Pinto at 2, but that diminishes the 3rd line and Cozens in the top 6 instead of Norris was also a minus.
I'll give the W to Buffalo but with hope that Cozens can be a good contributor. I'll be so pissed if not, I REALLY loved having that Stützle Norris Pinto trio up the middle, and felt the injury concerns were way overblown.
Only immediate positive is not having to listen to other Sens fans talk about putting Norris on the wing every day. But that'll probably be wished upon Cozens soon enough lol
