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Ranking Prospects 2024-25

Ben Danford is going to be glad Cowan is not in the OHL next season, and then likely gets to be his teammate instead later on.
 
Obviously better players don't get to go on as many playoff runs but Easton Cowan is now 3rd all time in OHL playoff scoring with 92 points in 58 games. He passed Robbie Schremp to set the Knights record.

He only trails Stan Drulia (93 in 78GP) and Wayne Groulx (102 in 68 GP). Both guys played in the 60s.
 
L K said:
Obviously better players don't get to go on as many playoff runs but Easton Cowan is now 3rd all time in OHL playoff scoring with 92 points in 58 games. He passed Robbie Schremp to set the Knights record.

He only trails Stan Drulia (93 in 78GP) and Wayne Groulx (102 in 68 GP). Both guys played in the 60s.
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Wanted to compare that to Marner's OHL playoff history. Was surprised to see the Knights only went deep in his final year in the OHL. Mitch had 44 points in 18 games on route to an OHL championship then. Cowan is 9 points behind in 3 less games at the moment. There will be at least 2 more games in the series.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
Is there a chance we see Cowan with the Leafs when the Knights season ends?
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Pretty solid chance they win this series and go to the Memorial Cup so probably no. Memorial Cup runs May 22-June 1st.

And as much as I like Cowan as a prospect, I'd Robertson isn't playing, Cowan wouldn't....although if the Leafs go really deep it would be cool to see him on the B team
 
Two more assists. Now has 37 points and moves past Stan Drulia for 2nd in all time OHL playoff scoring
 
Obviously Cowan's junior career point totals are benefitting from playing alongside some silly shooters (Barkey, Halttunen, and Dickinson* to some degree), but that's kind of what you want to see from a player profile like Cowan's. Offense is generated from a chain of plays, and like Marner/Nylander, Cowan is pretty elite at the middle portion of the offense chain with his skating and passing vision.

He's a step below either one or both of Marner/Nylander in every category, but for a late 1st, that's still really, really good, and a good happy medium between the two RW's skillsets. The one skill he stands out in relative to those two is probably his rattiness, as he will initiate physical engagement and stir up poop.

I'm glad we didn't trade him, and I hope he is cemented as the opposite winger to whatever line Nylander plays on.

* San Jose Sharks have both Halttunen (RW) and Dickinson (LD) in their prospect pipeline just behind Celebrini, Smith, and Eklund
 
Just adding on to the Cowan notes.

His playoff PPG (1.593) is 44th all time in OHL playoff scoring. The only players born in the 2000s on the list ahead of him are Wyatt Johnston (41 points in 25 GP) and Logan Morrison (56 points in 34 GP).

If we expand out to all three CHL leagues
Jacques Locas - 153P in 73 GP (QMJHL)
Dale Derkatch - 103 points in 54 GP (WHL)
Jonathan Drouin - 102P in 50 GP (QMJHL)
Mario Lemieux - 98 points in 44 GP (QMJHL)
Jacques Richard - 97P in 44 GP (QMJHL)
Wayne Groulx - 102 points in 68 GP (OHL)
Ty Rattie - 95 points in 76 GP (WHL)
Claude Verret - 94 points in 46 GP (QMJHL)
Easton Cowan - 94 points in 59 GP (OHL)

It helps playing on a stacked team. Cowan absolutely needs a finisher to play with (as you said a Nylander or Matthews helps that immensely) but his stretch run and playoff performance has really been calming after a really mediocre regular season and World Junior tournament. Cowan is absolutely a bit of a mild ish disturber. I'd probably put him more in the Matthew Knies post scrum kind of player rather than a Bunting/Tucker/Domi guy. But he'll annoy the better players on other teams.
 
Easton Cowan 0G 2A in his opening game against Moncton in the Memorial Cup. He sets up the OT winner with a really nice offensive move.
 
Easton Cowan kicks off the tic tac toe go ahead goal deep in the third period against Rimouski

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Wow admin took my caption

And Cowan with the dagger into the empty net to finish this off.

Cowan was on the ice for every goal scored this game (including the Rimouski goal to open the scoring). They targeted him physically all game, but he just dished it back.

Picks up Player of the Game.
 
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I feel like people need to temper expectations on Cowan - putting up these numbers in a D+2 season on a great team doesn’t mean a ton to me tbh. He might be a late bloomer or maybe there’s context to his younger production, but I’ve seen a lot about his production from fans as if it means he’ll be a sure fire top 6 contributor.
 
I would temper this with the note that Cowan takes long-ass shifts (like Marner back in London days), and while he is generally in the mix and pushing the play into the right areas, he is enjoying the benefits of playing with very strong shooters on special teams (Halttunen, and Barkey to a lesser degree). During these play offs, he is winging for the top line with sens prospect Blake Montgomery (who is big and fast and decent) and CtB's favourite Sam O'Reilly, while the other big guns are spread across the other lines. The Knights tend to roll those three lines, and only use the 4th for mucking it up when they're behind.
 
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