{"id":505557,"date":"2026-02-28T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505557\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T16:17:08","slug":"easton-cowan-expected-to-return-to-toronto-maple-leafs-lineup-saturday-vs-ottawa-senators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/505557\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton Cowan expected to return to Toronto Maple Leafs\u2019 lineup Saturday vs. Ottawa Senators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forward <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 expected to return to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> lineup Saturday night against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/ottawa-senators\/9\" target=\"_blank\">Ottawa Senators<\/a>, reports TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cowan was a healthy scratch in each of Toronto\u2019s first two games this week in Florida coming out of the Olympic break.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Expect Easton Cowan to return to the Leafs lineup tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Dreger (@DarrenDreger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DarrenDreger\/status\/2027758439284224194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Leafs lost both games, starting with a 4-2 defeat to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/tampa-bay-lightning\/14\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a> on Wednesday and a lopsided 5-1 loss to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a> a day later. Toronto now sits eight points out of a playoff spot with six teams to pass entering play Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Cowan last played an NHL game on Jan. 29. 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> said prior to puck drop Thursday he felt Cowan had hit a wall going into the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAt the time I took him out of the lineup, I felt [Cowan] hit a bit of a wall. We won three in a row, so I kept the same lineup going into the game against Tampa last night,\u201d Berube told reporters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t believe his development is being hurt. I believe he has improved this year as the year has gone along. He still has the swagger that\u2019s needed. He\u2019s a confident kid.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 20-year-old has seven goals and 10 assists for 17 points while averaging 13:31 of ice time per game in 43 outings this season as a rookie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was selected No. 28 overall by the Maple Leafs in the 2023 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forward Easton Cowan is expected to return to the Toronto Maple Leafs lineup Saturday night against the Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[712,49,48,99783,3302,74650],"class_list":["post-505557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-easton-cowan-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8484158","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505557","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=505557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}