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Originally Posted by gvitaly
Agreed. Luckily the Flames made a similar trade by getting Frost for a fraction of the price. I'm still interested to see if/when Zary and Frost take another step, and how they stack up with Cozens over the next couple of seasons.
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I would love to add Cozens and keep Zary or Coronato, but I don't think I would let Zary+ stop me if the + was reasonable.
I like Zary but he's missed a ton of games in the last 5 years. Cozens has missed 5 games in the last 4 years. Cozens is 7 months older and is big and a right-handed center vs Zary who is a maybe center. Cozens is good on faceoffs already and plays physical. He also has 4 PP points this year, gets it all 5 on 5. He is only 4 5 on 5 points behind Kadri who leads the team.
Cozens has 347 games played and has 202 points to Zary's 113 games and 59 points. (looks like more than 6 games of data).
Cozens has 5 more years at $7.1 mil.
Zary is a RFA. His next contract will be a big factor in who I would rather have. We aren't getting him to lock up for that many years for a whole bunch less I bet.
Cozens gives us more options with Kadri who only has 1 year left before we can trade him to 19 different teams.