Buffalo Sabres: 3 reasons Dylan Cozens will be a team captain
By Sion Fawkes
Energy and selflessness
Very few players display the energy and selflessness of a lower-liner yet project to find a spot on the top half of the middle six. But Cozens is definitely an outlier. His on-ice tenacity is bar-none, as shown during the Heritage Classic when he laid out Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs following the incident with Rasmus Dahlin that occurred earlier in the contest.
While there are other players in the National Hockey League like Cozens, the above clip shows that selfless enforcer mentality. And yes, while it’s true that you don’t want to see a team captain doing this kind of stuff – if Cozens reaches that milestone – it also shows a team-first mentality, and that no one is going to get one over on his team, displaying just how much more of a tight-knit group the Sabres are with Cozens.
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So will Cozens end up wearing the C patch in the future? It will come down between him, Alex Tuch, and Rasmus Dahlin, with Tuch serving as the favorite. But, as mentioned in the first slide, you can expect Cozens to receive the A patch in the not-so-distant future.
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