Dylan Cozens received a text from Casey Mittelstadt in July, after the Tampa Bay Lightning captured its second straight Stanley Cup championship.
The message: We need one of those.
"We all have that vision, and we all believe that it can come true," Cozens said Friday. "We're just going to do what we can every day to get better and better and hopefully reach that point one day."
'A quiet belief' | Cozens, Mittelstadt confident in Sabres' direction
Notes from Day 2 of Sabres training camp.
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