burn the pegulas
Joined: Mar. 2020
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it's a hard decision to make here...sabres fans are scarred by the way mittelstadt turned out when he was thrown onto the second line right away and we dont want that to happen to cozens, at all. but also, that was in mitts' DY+1 year and DC is already in his DY+2 year so the outcome of throwing him on the second line would be very different, and cozens is way more mature than casey is or will ever be. throwing cozens straight onto a line with the big dogs is kinda scary but playing him with eakin is even scarier. he needs to learn from a developed, veteran center and staal is just that. with all of that being said though, i say throw DC on the second line with skinner and staal and bump reinhart down to the third line to play with tage thompson and eakin, that gives the sabres 4 complete and competitive lines.