I like Cowan. He’s easily their top prospect. And he should be pretty close to untouchable unless some kind of insane offer is presented.
All that being said, he’s small for the NHL and his offense won’t keep him in the NHL at the beginning. He wasn’t exactly like a 120+ point phenom this year or last year. His playoff performances were impressive but he was also playing on absolutely stacked teams.
He should probably spend the whole year getting his lower body as strong as possible and time in the AHL learning how to be a good pro.
Chances are, this idiot team will burn a year of his ELC and play him 20 games like they did with Fraser Minten then trade him at the deadline for a 4th line LW.