Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Cooke ya buga wasan hockey na kankara a cikin gasar Ontario Hockey League (OHL) na tsawon shekaru uku, galibi tare da Windsor Spitfires, kafin yin wasa da sana'a. Rubuta mai ban sha'awa 95-point (na goma a cikin gasar), 146 na hukuncin kisa a kakar wasa ta biyu ta OHL, Vancouver Canucks ta zana shi a 144th a cikin 1997 NHL Entry Draft
Ka yi haƙuri. Komawa zuwa OHL don kakar wasa ta uku bayan an tsara shi, an yi ciniki daga Windsor zuwa Kingston Frontenacs a ranar 17 ga Disamba, 1997, a musayar Brent L'Heureux. Cooke zai gama kakar wasa da kuma aikinsa na OHL tare da Kingston.