{"id":131678,"date":"2025-09-09T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:02:12","slug":"easton-cowan-ben-danford-headline-maple-leafs-rookie-camp-roster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131678\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton Cowan, Ben Danford headline Maple Leafs&#8217; rookie camp roster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Easton Cowan&#8217;s bid to earn a spot on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> roster will hit a key stage this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Cowan is one of the headliners on the Leafs&#8217; rookie camp roster for the 2025 Prospect Showdown in Montreal, which was announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old winger led the London Knights to a Memorial Cup title last season and was the OHL&#8217;s most outstanding player in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs picked Cowan late in the first round (28th overall) of the 2023 NHL Draft. This year, Cowan is old enough to play for the AHL&#8217;s Marlies if he is not with the Leafs.<\/p>\n<p>The rookie Leafs team also includes 2024 first-round pick Ben Danford, a 19-year-old defenceman with the Oshawa Generals. Danford is not eligible to play for the Marlies this season.<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen goaltenders, nine defencemen and two goalies are on the roster for games against the Ottawa Senators on Saturday and Montreal Canadiens on Sunday. The team will have on-ice sessions Thursday and Friday in Toronto before heading to Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a full look at the Leafs&#8217; 2025 rookie camp roster:<\/p>\n<p>Forwards<br \/>Matthew Barbolini, Easton Cowan, Luke Haymes, Matthew Hlacar, Miroslav Holinka, Tyler Hopkins, Ryan Kirwan, Braeden Kressler, Sam McCue, Harry Nansi, Alex Pharand, Jacob Quillan, Landon Sim, Ryan Tverberg, Borya Valis<\/p>\n<p>Defencemen<br \/>Noah Chadwick, Owen Conrad, Ben Danford, Rylan Fellinger, Nathan Mayes, Rhett Parsons, John Prokop, Chris Sharpe, Blake Smith<\/p>\n<p>Goaltenders<br \/>Vyacheslav Peksa, Artur Akhtyamov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Easton Cowan&#8217;s bid to earn a spot on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster will hit a key stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-131678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}