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Pourquoi les Maple Leafs ont quitté le tableau pour sélectionner « Cowboy » Easton Cowan [Siegel&Kloke]
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His descriptions everywhere definitely give Connor Brown/Zach Hyman vibes.
> Ahead of the draft, Clark was clear: The Leafs wanted players who had intelligence, competitiveness and who could “influence winning hockey.”
> Clark and the team’s scouting staff appear to have found a player who ticks those boxes.
> “It’s a great picture of what (Cowan) could be in the NHL,” Knights associate general manager Rob Simpson said. “His motor and his engine on the ice, he is relentless and never stops working. And he’s the type of player that if you want him to play higher in your lineup with skilled guys and bring competitiveness and forechecking and skill, he can do that. If you want him to play a defensive game and play the penalty kill, he can do those things.”
> That versatility was evident as the Knights went to the OHL final this season. During that playoff run that Simpson called “impactful,” Cowan’s game shone. The Leafs valued how he played in the playoffs, lapping up the spotlight and the pressure while leading all OHL rookies in playoff scoring with 21 points in 20 games.
> It was his hockey sense, which shined with quick passing in the offensive zone, that popped in the playoffs. That hints at his potential for producing offence as he continues to develop.
> Even though his smallish frame may remind some of past Leafs picks, it’s the fact that he’s become known as a “puck hound” according to Simpson that might well separate him from those picks. His competitiveness is well-established.
> Cowan grew up a Leafs fan and said he models his game after Nazem Kadri.
> Simpsons remembers games this year where Cowan would pinball from one defenceman to the other on the forecheck. He wouldn’t stop there. He chased after the puck wherever it went.
> “He’s just relentless all over the ice at trying to get the puck and when he has it, he doesn’t want to give it up,” Simpson said.
> Moments after he first met Dale Hunter, the longtime Knights head coach gave Easton Cowan a nickname that stuck.
> “Cowboy.”
> Born in Strathroy, Ont., Cowan comes from a farm in nearby Mount Brydges where his family farms cash crops like wheat, corn and soybeans. When the pandemic hit in 2020 and Cowan’s time in high school classes became limited, he began working on the farm from 6:30 in the morning till 9 at night during the busy farming seasons of spring and fall, driving a tractor beside the massive combine his father Chris uses to transfer crops.
> “It’s the time you have to put in to succeed in the cash crop business of farming,” Chris told The Athletic.
> That time on the farm helped instill a work ethic, as well as good ol’ farm strength, that Cowan has made his hallmark as a Knight.
> Born in Strathroy, Ont., Cowan comes from a farm in nearby Mount Brydges where his family farms cash crops like wheat, corn and soybeans. When the pandemic hit in 2020 and Cowan’s time in high school classes became limited, he began working on the farm from 6:30 in the morning till 9 at night during the busy farming seasons of spring and fall, driving a tractor beside the massive combine his father Chris uses to transfer crops.
Drop the COVID bit and that paragraph could be about a player from the 50s. Love it.
We got ourselves a new Kadri boiz!!!
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Elite nickname
I wonder if we could/should have traded down and still got him.
Meh, still a reach
Sounds like he’s a hard worker. Looking forward to seeing him on the ice next season.
What I liked most about his highlight pack is ability to finish around to even from a distance with his wrister. Lots of drive and compete, forecheck game.. and he loves to score, noticed his celly’s cover a lottt of ice
I think this guy COULD be a great pick, but its still strange you take him 28th overall when he was projected in the 3rd round. I have the same feelings about minten. He was projected like 70th and we took him at 30’s even though he’s looking like a great prospect, you really couldnt trade down and get him at 50 AND another dart on the board?