{"id":454309,"date":"2023-08-10T16:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=454309"},"modified":"2023-08-10T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T20:17:34","slug":"maple-leafs-ink-easton-cowan-to-elc","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/maple-leafs-ink-easton-cowan-to-elc\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs ink Easton Cowan to ELC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have inked 2023 1<sup>st<\/sup> round selection Easton Cowan to a 3-year, entry-level deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Easton Cowan has signed his three-year, entry-level contract with the Maple Leafs. \u270d\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aYLKBq0q7A\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/aYLKBq0q7A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1689710024837287936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Easton was picked 28<sup>th<\/sup> overall at this year\u2019s NHL draft, notched 20 goals, and earned 53 points in 68 games with the OHL&#8217;s London Knights in the past campaign. He also appeared in 20 postseason matches, earning 21 points in them.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian winger was the Maple Leafs&#8217; 1<sup>st<\/sup> draft selection under the new GM, Brad Treliving.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian NHL franchise received the 28<sup>th<\/sup> overall selection, which was Boston Bruins, from the Washington Capitals at the exchange deadline in a deal that sent Rasmus Sandin to the organization from the US capital.<\/p>\n<p>Easton was named to the OHL\u2019s 2022-23 2<sup>nd<\/sup> all-rookie selection.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Easton Cowan is officially a Toronto Maple Leaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6UUsnQb3rH\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6UUsnQb3rH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Cushman (@Kyle_Cush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kyle_Cush\/status\/1689706743314477056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toronto Maple Leafs have inked 2023 1st round selection Easton Cowan to a 3-year, entry-level deal. Easton Cowan has signed his three-year, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":454310,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17844,16734],"news_category":[16709,14084],"gn_keywords":[20878,17890,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The 1st round pick signed an entry-level contract.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/454309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454309"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=454309"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=454309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}