Dylan Cozens Joins Sabres Live | Buffalo Sabres

Dylan Cozens Joins Sabres Live | Buffalo Sabres

Sab sends tonight Dylan cousins is with us Dylan tough news today for the team knowing that Jeff Skinner is out week to week how offensively does the group make up for his absence yeah it’s obviously tough he’s been so great for us this year um you know just consistently

Producing goals and and um you know I think we’re going to have some guys that need to step up and that includes uh myself I know I need to be way better this year and step up in our line uh with Quinter and JJ we need to we need

To put some in the back of the net and you know we’ve been getting the chances but um at the end of the day we haven’t been scoring so um we know we need to do better with that tonight you’re getting a lot of shots as you

Pointed out a lot of chances um when the Puck’s on your stick what do you look do you look at the goalie do you look beyond the goalie are you trying to not focus at anything right now like because everybody’s got a different way of approaching it but sometimes that’ll

Change so what do you look right now when you have the puck on your S I think right now uh just with not scoring that much this year I’m looking a lot and I think that’s kind of hurting me I’m trying to look where the goalie is

Trying to see what’s open and uh whereas last year when I was scoring a lot more I would just shoot the puck without really thinking and just trust me my instincts so um that’s something I’ve been I’ve been working on mentally to get back to is just uh trusting my shot

And and shooting rather than uh taking the time to pick a spot and look at it and everything like that so um yeah that’s is that also part of the Don always talk about being direct play direct and with speed um you know there

Were two words for me so I I mean you can kind of take him in any context you want but for you what does that mean direct and with speed I think it just means uh kind of a simple game and that’s uh kind of the game I like to

Play is just with speed and and direct and again the puck going up ice and trying to beat guys with speed and um you know find my Lin mates with speed and just get pucks on net and uh you know it’s kind of our line uh we like to

Transition quick and and you know just play with speed when you were um trending you know towards the career year last year when you’re you’re scoring that much are you aware and focusing on how it’s going in and now you know do you try to revisit that or

When you get on a run like last year is it just like just keep going and don’t overthink this at all yeah that’s exactly it you know you’re not really thinking about it when you scored last game or or two games ago like you’re you’re feeling it and you’re just

Putting pucks on net and they’re they’re just find their ways their way in you know pucks you wouldn’t really expect to score just go in and um you know I’ve watched a lot of my highlights from last year just to try and remind myself how I

Was scoring and and and seeing how I was scoring um just to try and get back to that and uh you know it’s it’s been tough this year um but you know hopefully you know just mentally with what I’ve been doing lately I can I can

Get back to it so um I’ve played on a couple of Team Canada team at the world juniors World Championship you’ve done the same we used to always have these meetings right with a sports psychologist and I remember one of them would talk about you know how you

Squeeze your stick or you got to watch good video you just mentioned that um do you go back to that sometimes like your experience on other teams and other um you know um uh settings that okay what what did we learn from that what did we do with all the tools that were

Presented to us that maybe we used at times but now I need to use others yeah I mean I’ve been doing a lot a lot of stuff I have my own uh personal mental performance coach that I’ve been working with since I was like 16 years old and

You know I’ve been doing lots of calls lately and uh just trying to get back to back to my roots back to what I know back to what’s got me to to where I am now and and uh not trying to overthink it and you know that’s that’s exactly

What it is when you’re not scoring you grip your stick harder you try and pick the perfect spot instead of just you know shooting it quick and trusting it um we had Conor Clifton here uh on the show on Tuesday he dropped a little line

About you know I asked him if he had watched the national championship college football ton night before he said he watched a little bit but 10:30 is his bedtime so he missed it and then I said do you think I win power watched it and then he dropped the line of the

Year for me is oh Owen power’s got a way earlier bedtime than me so he probably didn’t see any so I’m going to ask you are you a Connor Clifton bedtime type of guy or an Owen power bedtime like 9:30 10 o’ I don’t know if that’s the number

But it was assumed that it was pretty early uh no I’m not a very early sleeper okay I I I like being I’m not and Duffer isn’t either not I feel like I missed something I I always wait for Stuff to be done not that it’s ever done but

Especially in sports I want it to be all out of the way before I go to bed and then process it yeah I can’t uh I can’t go to bed early like that or I’ll wake up at like 6:00 a.m. wide awake and then

You know my day is kind of weird so I I stay up a little later what’s uh what’s new beyond the rink for you how’s family how did the holiday season go everything uh you know and do you expect or have a people coming and and going here in this

Uh this home stand that we’re on yeah uh my family all made it down for Christmas um they were supposed to come last year but only half of them made it in time uh just my mom and my youngest brother but my two brothers and both my parents made

It this here so uh it was great to have him here uh spending time that was my first time my dad came down and stayed here at uh my new place so um it was great and uh yeah it was just nice to have him up here and you know uh take a

Little look into my life what is this winter for you like you could come in from where you come from and knowing that we had the blizzard last year we had almost 100 Ines of snow by January first last year I think we’ve got like

12 inches of snow this year uh is this weird that we’re like January the 11th and it’s like that right now definitely I mean I I was begging for snow for Christmas time um I don’t want to jinx anything but I would love a little more

Snow here in the winter uh I like I like the snow for sure okay um one uh also kind of crazy question I’ve been lazy lately I’ve let my hair grow but I think it’s because I’m going to do the ball for bucks again this year so I want to

Make sure I’ve got a lot of of leftovers and all of that what’s happening with this little uh whisker you got going on the beard is uh it’s it’s growing a little bit but you’re kind of like me it’s not really thick yeah uh I forgot

My Razor on the last trip so it it kind of grew out everywhere and then uh I decided to just shave the sides and leave leave this going I haven’t had it in a while maybe it can bring me some good luck you know all right do you call

The hotel and say if they could ship it back or no no no I forgot my RoR on the I didn’t bring it on the RO on the I thought you left it at the hot I did one worse I forgot my entire backpack so no

No laptop no anything on one of those last trips we were on so so on the road is when you like say okay now I need to shave and clean but you didn’t have it with you yeah I like to you know get the hotel room a little Messier instead of

Getting my hair all over my own bathroom you know you don’t have to clean at home we love it rules from the road Dylan thank you good luck tonight thank you appreciate it yeah thank you guys Some

Sabres forward Dylan Cozens joined Brian Duff and Martin Biron on Sabres Live. He discussed filling the void from Jeff Skinner’s injury, trusting his shot, playing direct and with speed, working with a mental performance coach, his Christmas, and his sleeping habits and facial hair decisions.

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