The Toronto Maple Leafs will host the Carolina Hurricanes for the third consecutive year on their St. Patrick’s Day game.
However, this year, the Maple Leafs are debuting a brand-new Toronto St. Pats jersey after revealing it to everyone earlier in the week.
Cowan’s ongoing point streak in the OHL has been well-documented over the past couple of months, and on Sunday, he etched his name into the history books of arguably the most storied franchise in the league.
With two assists in London’s 7-4 victory over the Windsor Spitfires, he set a Knights franchise record for the longest point streak in their 59-year history.
Although already impressive to begin with, the record is even crazier when the amount of star players that the Knights have produced is taken into consideration – among those names are Patrick Kane, Mitch Marner, and Corey Perry.
A native of Mount Brydges, Ontario, Cowan was selected by the Maple Leafs at 28th overall in the first round last season.
As stated above, the pick was seen as a bit of a reach at the time – he wasn’t projected to be selected until the third round, or maybe the back half of the second round at best.
It was somewhat unknown what the Leafs were going to do with the pick at the time, given that it was the first draft with new general manager Brad Treliving at the helm.
Amidst speculation over whether they would trade the pick or keep it, it was revealed that they would be using the pick, with Treliving allowing Leafs’ director of scouting Wes Clark and his team to handle the selection.
When Clark announced his name on stage, the camera panned to the furthest corner of Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, indicating that neither he nor his family were expecting to hear his name called that day.
With how loud the excited screams coming from the Cowan collective were, though, they might as well have been seated in the front row.
