Teams may be asking about Easton Cowan when talking to the Maple Leafs, but his stock is rising with the team
NHL Network: Elliotte Friedman, when asked about the Toronto Maple Leafs. They’ve traded Matthew Knies and their cupboard is not full, but Easton Cowan would be a player teams would ask about.
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
Mike Rupp: “Elliotte, we’re on Gavin McKenna watch to just keep continually watch his progression. The big trade of Marchenko, that’s going to take a lot of oxygen in the room. But Easton Cowan was unbelievable. He was so good, and and I, when we were talking about even the Marchenko deal, and you would know a little more about this than I would. It feels like if any team was going to make a deal with the Leafs, I would think most people are going to ask for Easton Cowan in return. And John Chayka, was that a non, non-starter here in, in Toronto?”
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Friedman: “You know, here’s the thing. I do think, Mike, that in some of the things that the Maple Leafs considered in the offseason, Cowan was a possibility, and obviously those things didn’t happen. He started the season with them.
And you know when the when the Marchenko deal happened the other day, I, I was asking around like, is there, like you know I heard it was going to be (Matthew) Knies, and we all knew it was going to be Knies. And I started checking around. Okay, I better be back on Cowan Alert.
And this was even before the first game. The word around Cowan was that he’d really impressed them. He came in; they really liked what they saw. They liked what they saw at training camp. They say took his summer seriously, and they were telling people we’re not looking at doing anything right now with him; we like him. And we saw the way he came out against Montreal, against the Islanders. And I’m with you. I think you know he was one of their best players.
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And so right now, I, you know, I hesitate to say that guys are off the market because I think we’ve learned that you know nothing is ever guaranteed, but they’re not looking to do anything here. They’re very happy with them. They know they need some young new blood, and Cowan, you know, they’re, his stock has gone up internally, and they’re not looking to do anything there.”
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