TORONTO — If you’d only caught a few moments of the Toronto Maple Leafs’ most promising prospect flying around the sheet at the Ford Performance Centre on Thursday, you’d have all you need to understand just how badly Easton Cowan wants to crack the big club’s roster this season.

That much was clear as Toronto’s prospects gathered at the team’s practice facility in Etobicoke, Ont., taking the ice for the first of two skates before they hop on a bus and head to Montreal for the 2025 Prospects Showdown. Cowan was easy to spot, the 20-year-old sprinting full-tilt each time he got into a drill, finishing out of breath before he could go again, buzzing around the waiting crowd with nervy excitement in between.

The overflowing energy was understandable. The stakes are high for No. 53 this seas

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