[Poe969]

I don't get the uproar around this. The leafs took him as a cap dump and they don't want him to play with their team. It's not like they're refusing to pay him, they're actually paying him not to have to work. From their point of view, they're just protecting themselves because if he got hurt, they'd be stuck with him on the books. If anything, Cowen should use this as motivation to improve. The leafs aren't the reason people are going to be shy about signing him, his horrid play will be the reason. He's been pretty bad for a while and he's in this situation because of himself. If it were the Flames in their position, I'd want them to do the same thing.

It's not like he was in the running for the Norris and the leafs sat him the last 20 games and he isn't going to win or that the first 3/4 of the season didn't matter and he's now going to show that he's worth a contract in the last 20 games.