{"id":203557,"date":"2025-10-10T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203557\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T18:20:07","slug":"easton-cowan-close-to-making-toronto-maple-leafs-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/203557\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton Cowan \u2018close\u2019 to making Toronto Maple Leafs debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/craig-berube\/8445440\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Berube<\/a> told reporters that rookie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/easton-cowan\/8484158\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/easton-cowan\/8484158\" target=\"_blank\">Easton Cowan<\/a> is \u201cclose\u201d to making his NHL debut but has not confirmed when that will be.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Craig Berube liked Easton Cowan&#8217;s practice today &amp; says the 20-year-old is &#8220;close&#8221; to making his NHL debut<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s decisions we have to discuss &amp; make. We&#8217;ll see what happens tomorrow.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TSN_Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Masters (@markhmasters) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markhmasters\/status\/1976694619145683184?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 10, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cowan, 20, was rotating on the third line with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/max-domi\/8477503\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/max-domi\/8477503\" target=\"_blank\">Max Domi<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dakota-joshua\/8478057\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/dakota-joshua\/8478057\" target=\"_blank\">Dakota Joshua<\/a>, and Nick Robertson during Friday\u2019s practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Berube said he liked what he saw on Friday but has yet to make any decisions on his lineup for Saturday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 6-foot winger recorded two assists in five pre-season games this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cowan recorded 29 goals and 69 points with the OHL\u2019s London Knights last season and had three goals and seven points during the Memorial Cup tournament where he was named MVP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Maple Leafs used these lines during Friday\u2019s practice, according to TSN\u2019s Mark Masters:<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Craig Berube told reporters that rookie Easton Cowan is \u201cclose\u201d to making his NHL debut but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[16159,64,63,126657,575,85,113126],"class_list":["post-203557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-easton-cowan-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484158","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}