4 Toronto Maple Leafs Prospects That Will Impact the 2024-25 Season

4 Toronto Maple Leafs Prospects That Will Impact the 2024-25 Season

Easton Cowan

I think the easiest name to predict that will make the team is Easton Cowan who is their top prospect and currently playing for the Memorial Cup.

The Mount Brydges native has represented Canada at the World Junior Championships, won OHL Player of the Year, OHL Playoff MVP and an OHL title all while looking to take home the CHL championship.

To put it bluntly, Cowan has very little he needs to prove at Canada's top junior hockey league. What is usually seen as a negative for 19-year olds, but could play in Cowan's favour is that his deal with the CHL makes him ineligible to play in the in the American Hockey League next year.

This may force the organizations hand to have him crack the NHL roster.

Fraser Minten

Fraser Minten surprised a lot of people during the Toronto Maple Leafs 2023 training camp and was able to crack the line-up for the first four games of the season playing as much as 14-minutes in one of the contests.

Minten projects as the future third line center on the team and will have every opportunity to seize that spot next fall. The 2022 second round selection captained Canada at the World Junior Championships and does have some offensive upside but he is known more for his two-way detailed game. Let's just hope it isn't the same projection that Frederik Gauthier had.

Minten collected 48 points in 43 WHL games split between Kamloops and Saskatoon before adding another 14 in 16 playoff games.

Unlike Cowan, Minten can be sent to the Toronto Marlies and there is a realistic scenario where he starts the season in the American Hockey League, however, if he has a solid training camp or there are injuries up the middle Minten could be skating in playoff games for the Maple Leafs next spring.