{"id":100193,"date":"2024-05-16T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/?p=100193"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T15:48:42","slug":"ohl-mvp-easton-cowan-leads-london-knights-to-memorial-cup-can-he-crack-the-maple-leafs-roster-this-season-dieutrinh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/ohl-mvp-easton-cowan-leads-london-knights-to-memorial-cup-can-he-crack-the-maple-leafs-roster-this-season-dieutrinh\/","title":{"rendered":"OHL MVP Easton Cowan Leads London Knights to Memorial Cup, Can he Crack the Maple Leafs&#8217; Roster This Season?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Easton Cowan joined Mitch Marner as the last two Maple Leafs to win both the OHL&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player and OHL Playoff MVP in the same season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Easton Cowan will head to Toronto Maple Leafs training camp this fall with a whole lot of hype and very little left to prove in Junior.<\/p>\n<p>The London Knights forward had a goal and three assists to help his team sweep the Oshawa Generals with a 7-1 victory in Game 4 of the OHL Championship Series on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SIMPLY UNSTOPPABLE.<\/p>\n<p>Easton Cowan puts the London Knights up by five with his FOURTH point of the night \ud83d\ude31. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sXWzoTAK4w\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/sXWzoTAK4w<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1790908797763932592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When it was all said and done, Toronto&#8217;s first pick (28th overall) in the 2023 NHL Draft finished the postseason with a league-leading 34 points (10 goals, 24 assists). He picked up the &#8216;Wayne Gretzky 99&#8217; trophy, awarded to the OHL playoffs MVP. Cowan became the first Maple Leaf prospect since Mitch Marner to win OHL regular season and playoff MVP in the same season<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Easton Cowan claims the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award for being named the OHL Playoff MVP.<\/p>\n<p>The last players who won both regular season and playoff MVP in the same season: Mitch Marner &amp; Connor McDavid \ud83d\ude0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6nSmzlnE6l\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6nSmzlnE6l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1790926992528888278?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Next up for the forward is the Memorial Cup, where Cowan&#8217;s Knights will represent as the OHL champions. But certainly, Cowan is making a strong case to push for a spot out of training camp with the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>Cowan was cut on the last day of camp in his first go-around at Leafs camp. It was seen as a testament to how well the player performed. The one they call &#8216;Cowboy&#8217; would carry a $935,833 salary cap hit on Toronto&#8217;s books if he makes the team.<\/p>\n<p>After what he&#8217;s accomplished this season, sending him back to London would leave him with little to prove. Because he&#8217;d be 19, he wouldn&#8217;t be eligible to play for the Toronto Marlies if he doesn&#8217;t make the Leafs&#8217; roster out of camp.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly, being a key cog in helping his team win the Memorial Cup would further cement his case.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Easton Cowan joined Mitch Marner as the last two Maple Leafs to win both the OHL&#8217;s Most Outstanding Player and OHL Playoff MVP in the same season&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":100198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100199,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100193\/revisions\/100199"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playsetmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}