TORONTO — The Toronto Maple Leafs lost another hockey game, and the youngest among them carried the burden of a squandered point as he walked out of the rink.

“I take responsibility. I got to bury one,” Easton Cowan lamented, following a hard-fought 3-2 overtime defeat to the Columbus Blue Jackets.

“If I bury one of them, we could’ve won the game. So, that’s the unfortunate part. But just gotta stay positive.”

Sure, Cowan has been a tad unlucky through his first 13 NHL games, converting on just one of his first 24 shots.

But he’s also 20 years old and, partly in response to Toronto’s injury rash, got asked to skate more than 20 minutes Thursday.

When it comes to the words Cowan and burying this season, his first as a professional, many figured we’d be talking about stuffing unproven t

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