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Originally Posted by Monahammer
This is just revisionist. Dougie had a kind of rough first 2 seasons, looked OK offensively third season but there were tons of rumors about attitude and fit with teammates, which is the entire reason Boston agreed to trade him!
Let's not pretend he was some pristine untouched golden boy here.
If anything, Cozens season of ~70 points is far beyond anything dougie did prior to being traded by Boston. If we're talking relative performance.
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Dougie had his best year here in the second year he was a flame and that is when he was moved to Gio’s partner full time and the Flames had Brodie with Hamonic.
Hamilton struggled a bit in his first year here but still had 47pts. He actually had his lowest point total as a Flame in his third year but had 47, 50, and 44pts here which were all better than any year in Boston.
Dougie was 21 when he was traded to Calgary and Cozens is about to be 24 so not sure why you are saying Cozens had a better pedigree prior to the trade. Dougie had 42pts as a top pair D in Boston at 21 and Cozens had his 68pt season when he was also 21/22. Dougie set career highs the following 2 years where Cozens is on pace for his second straight year of regression.
Not a good example/comparison