You could certainly make the case that Dylan Cozens has not been the same player since he was destroyed in a fight with Garnet Hathaway early in the 2023-24 season. So to expect him to come in and drop the gloves on a regular basis is probably a little unrealistic.

Five years and 341 games later, Cozens has left Buffalo, where he had a lot of close friends and where he wanted to make a difference.