C Easton Cowan - London Knights, OHL (2023, 28th, TOR)

[Namikaze Minato]

Lol people think this kid would go top 10 in a redraft?

Are you the second person?

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Anyways, back to the propsect at hand.

19 game point streak going, can he make it 20 tonight? Playing Windsor.

 

[Metroid]

Cowan is so good he's making people lose their marbles in this thread based on one post.
Comedy Central.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

Make it 20 straight games with a point!

 

[weems]

Cowan goal



Cowan assist

 

[leafsfan2point0]

You know he’s been looking good when the haters are starting to come in here trying to police the hype.

 

[Future]

This thread is a disaster. Some people just NEED to be right on the internet instead of simply voicing their opinion and moving on with their day.

70 points in 38 games for the draft reach Easton Cowan.

Lost in the argument of some of these guys is the fact that Cowan is producing better than players drafted around him that are purely offensive players.

Cowan was targeted for his energy, tenacity, forechecking, intelligence, and two-way play. He just had offensive upside to go with that, suggested by his increased production toward the end of last season. Since then, he’s exploded in that area more than anyone expected.

He completely outclassed Stankoven, a highly rated prospect who’s producing at a high level as a rookie in the AHL, in a head to head matchup in the pre-season prospect tourny. Carried that momentum into Leafs pre-season where he was one of the most dynamic players in camp, getting praise from the coaching staff and Matthews.

I think his offence is more translatable than some of these pure offensive players because of his intelligence and ability to create space with his agility. The biggest areas he can improve is his strength + shooting.

 

[WTFMAN99]

This thread is a disaster. Some people just NEED to be right on the internet instead of simply voicing their opinion and moving on with their day.

70 points in 38 games for the draft reach Easton Cowan.

Lost in the argument of some of these guys is the fact that Cowan is producing better than players drafted around him that are purely offensive players.

Cowan was targeted for his energy, tenacity, forechecking, intelligence, and two-way play. He just had offensive upside to go with that, suggested by his increased production toward the end of last season. Since then, he’s exploded in that area more than anyone expected.

He completely outclassed Stankoven, a highly rated prospect who’s producing at a high level as a rookie in the AHL, in a head to head matchup in the pre-season prospect tourny. Carried that momentum into Leafs pre-season where he was one of the most dynamic players in camp, getting praise from the coaching staff and Matthews.

I think his offence is more translatable than some of these pure offensive players because of his intelligence and ability to create space with his agility. The biggest areas he can improve is his strength + shooting.

I think Cowan has a very safe floor, like he's gonna be a 3rd line guy just based off his tools and work ethic.

Is he going to be a 1st (complimentary) kind of guy or a 2nd line guy? Maybe.

I think predicting the future in this thread is silly but it would be cool to talk more in the now with him. He's certainly having an awesome season in the OHL - I've managed to see a few games and he just brings a ton of energy, stronger than he looks too. Low centre of gravity maybe?

 

[Martin Skoula]

This thread is a disaster. Some people just NEED to be right on the internet instead of simply voicing their opinion and moving on with their day.

70 points in 38 games for the draft reach Easton Cowan.

Lost in the argument of some of these guys is the fact that Cowan is producing better than players drafted around him that are purely offensive players.

Cowan was targeted for his energy, tenacity, forechecking, intelligence, and two-way play. He just had offensive upside to go with that, suggested by his increased production toward the end of last season. Since then, he’s exploded in that area more than anyone expected.

He completely outclassed Stankoven, a highly rated prospect who’s producing at a high level as a rookie in the AHL, in a head to head matchup in the pre-season prospect tourny. Carried that momentum into Leafs pre-season where he was one of the most dynamic players in camp, getting praise from the coaching staff and Matthews.

I think his offence is more translatable than some of these pure offensive players because of his intelligence and ability to create space with his agility. The biggest areas he can improve is his strength + shooting.

The skating is pretty projectable too, he has good mechanics but there’s some obvious polish and power to add. Probably won’t hit that average to elite skating spike a similar bodied guy like Point had but I like the upside on it more than the 40 point energy guys the Marlies have been churning out like Moore, Hyman, Kapanen, Johnsson, Brown etc. Won’t have the same straight line burst as Kapanen obviously but has better 4-way mobility with the puck on those rushes.

 

[Isaac Nootin]

Make it 21 games

 

[Leafs at Knight]

People that use WJC as a baseline and think it has more value than a current season, prospect camp, training camp etc., is always easy to just ignore and move on and just chalk it up to being new to following the sport.

 

[WTFMAN99]

People that use WJC as a baseline and think it has more value than a current season, prospect camp, training camp etc., is always easy to just ignore and move on and just chalk it up to being new to following the sport.

The crazy thing is he's pretty young to make a great team like Team Canada.

The production wasn't sexy but 0 5v5 goals against in the tournament, held his own for sure.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

The crazy thing is he's pretty young to make a great team like Team Canada.

The production wasn't sexy but 0 5v5 goals against in the tournament, held his own for sure.

He's got a chance at being a major factor for them next season, likely get a letter and be part of their leadership group like Minten was.

 

[TimeZone]

People that use WJC as a baseline and think it has more value than a current season, prospect camp, training camp etc., is always easy to just ignore and move on and just chalk it up to being new to following the sport.

Imagine actually putting more stock into 5 games in December against teenagers than an actual NHL training camp, preseason games against actual NHL players.

A real good way to never be taken seriously again on these boards.

 

[lionsDen]

https://x.com/citchmook/status/1757200085748748555?s=20

48.6% of his production at even strength I have no clue how to embed tweets. Feel free to do so

 

[Martin Skoula]

https://x.com/citchmook/status/1757200085748748555?s=20

48.6% of his production at even strength I have no clue how to embed tweets. Feel free to do so

Is leading in short handed points a negative now?

 

[oooooooooohCanada]

Is leading in short handed points a negative now?

Yeah sort of funny he ends up at 65% of his points at ES+SH which is comparable to the other names. And like others have said he wasnt drafted based off his offensive upside.

 

[lionsDen]

Is leading in short handed points a negative now?

You’re reading way too much into my post man. Not everything posted is an attack. Chill. I just thought yall’d be interested in seeing it

 

[Namikaze Minato]

https://x.com/citchmook/status/1757200085748748555?s=20

48.6% of his production at even strength I have no clue how to embed tweets. Feel free to do so

You post it as "media" and it cant be an x link, they have to be a twitter one.

So for example:

 

[Leaf Rocket]

You’re reading way too much into my post man. Not everything posted is an attack. Chill. I just thought yall’d be interested in seeing it

Pardon us, we are used to not being allowed to have any good prospects or players.

 

[lionsDen]

You post it as "media" and it cant be an x link, they have to be a twitter one.

So for example:

Hey I appreciate the insight, props.

Pardon us, we are used to not being allowed to have any good prospects or players.

I feel ya man. Sounds from the little I know yall got a promising one.

 

[Stephen]

You post it as "media" and it cant be an x link, they have to be a twitter one.

So for example:

Doing a double take at those %, how is Cal Ritchie so poor on the powerplay as a 6'2" 19 year old 1st rounder in his D+1? This is the time to be a special teams cookie monster...

 

[Leafidelity]

 

[ER89]

You don’t see the difference between two top 10 picks expected to be stars compared to two second round picks?

In the second round you are hoping to get anyone playing NHL games. At 28 you shouldn’t be expecting a superstar either. If you get an NHL regular at 28, that’s a good outcome.

Cowan is a good prospect. No one is saying otherwise. The discussion is whether he deserves to be considered one of the best prospects in the league or from his draft.

sure but what you fail to address is the fact that you're whole point of leaf fans continue to hype their prospect like knies et al was met with a fair counter point of - well our studs that did pan out were ridiculed and leaf fans were ridiculed for thinking nylander was better than mantha LOL or marner was no where near hanifan (LOLOL).

It goes both ways.

As for Easton - yeah he's doing well and I think he's going to continue to surprise and be a legit top 6 guy in the league. If he doesn't ah well. Let's see.

 

[Namikaze Minato]

1 game more than Marner's old benchmark and counting!