London Knights forward Easton Cowan is on a 56 game regular season point streak in the Ontario Hockey League. Fifty-one of those games came after last year's World Juniors and, apparently, that's not a coincidence.
Dec 20, 2024 at 08:32 PM ETLondon Knights forward Easton Cowan is on a 56 game regular season point streak in the Ontario Hockey League. Fifty-one of those games came after last year's World Juniors and, apparently, that's not a coincidence.
Lazary is the head coach of the Saginaw Spirit, who beat the Knights in the Memorial Cup final last season. Cowan was fun to watch in the OHL playoffs last season. He produced 34 points in 18 games while leading London to a title. "There's going to be lovers and haters, especially in the Leafs market," the native of Mount Brydges, Ont. said with a smile."Obviously there's a lot of attention anywhere you go so it's really matured me a lot."
When Matthews reached out, Cowan couldn't help but point out the Leafs captain has a pretty good track record at the Canadian Tire Centre, which will host Canada's games at the World Juniors. "I thought as it went on I got more comfortable," he said."Early on I was gripping my stick pretty tight, but I started making a few plays and started getting my confidence back ... Obviously being in that 13th forward spot, you don't want to mess up. Being a young guy you want to fit in. I'm not used to playing that . that first shift pretty late in the game there, it's kind of natural for me to be kind of nervous.
But it was only one power play so Team Canada still dedicated plenty of practice time to special teams on Friday. Ritchie pointed out that he played the bumper spot a bit during his pre-season games with the Colorado Avalanche. Nadeau is looking forward to facing off against Swedish winger and Wolves teammate Felix Unger Sörum on Saturday night in Canada's second pre-tournament game.
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