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Rookie Issue 2024
In our 2024 Rookie Issue, our cover story focuses on two Minnesota freshmen who are making their marks in Year 1: Brock Faber and Marco Rossi. We also take a deep dive into Connor Bedard's game by speaking with his junior coach/GM and a group of pro scouts, and we profile two other sensational rookies: Connor Zary and Dmitri Voronkov. In addition, we look at what's led to the successful start of the PWHL and preview the NHL trade deadline, with breakdowns for all 32 clubs.
TRADE DEADLINE REWIND
>VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS ACQUIRE:> Mark Stone> Tobias Lindberg >OTTAWA SENATORS ACQUIRE:> Erik Brannstrom> Oscar Lindberg2020 second-round pick (Egor Sokolov) < THE MAX PACIORETTY deal was the first blockbuster trade in Golden Knights history. But ultimately, acquiring the Canadiens captain was just the amuse-bouche. Because if any trade made clear Vegas’ intention to become more than a feel-good expansion story, it was stepping up to the plate and taking the biggest swing at the 2019 trade deadline. The target? Ottawa Senators alternate captain Mark Stone. Ottawa was in the midst of a full-fledged fire sale, having started the season by sending captain Erik Karlsson packing and later offloading Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel. Stone was the final domino to fall. A pending UFA, Stone had established himself as one of the NHL’s top two-way talents and…
THE NHL GOES TO JAIL
LONG BEFORE THE FIRST Winter Classic between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins in front of more than 70,000 fans at Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008, or the trendsetting Canadiens-Oilers Heritage Classic in 2003, an NHL team tried its hand at an outdoor game. On Feb. 2, 1954, the Detroit Red Wings travelled to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for an exhibition game at a maximum-security prison. The likes of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Terry Sawchuk played in lightly falling snow against the Marquette Branch Prison team for a crowd of roughly 600 felons. “We were all Canadian kids, so we all played a lot outdoors as youngsters,” recalled Detroit left winger Marty Pavelich. “It was delightful. We had stocking caps on. It wasn’t a real cold day, and the ice was…
STAY AT HOME DEFENSEMAN
TAKE A LOOK AT the list of NHL ice-time leaders this season, and you’ll see a lot of familiar faces: Drew Doughty, John Carlson, Cale Makar and so on. But sandwiched right between Rasmus Dahlin and Kris Letang is a new name: Minnesota rookie Brock Faber. At just 21, Faber was playing 24:47 per game through mid-January, and when the Wild needed him most, he was sometimes on the ice for literally half the game, as he had already done five times this year. And you don’t get to play more than 30 minutes in a contest without doing something right. While Faber was also vying for the lead among freshmen blueliners in scoring, perhaps even more impressive is the work he does in shutting down the opposition. The Wild have been…
6 Days In Ukraine Feedback
AS I CELEBRATE MY sixth anniversary, on Jan. 27, 2024, as the steward of The Hockey News, I took a look back over the holidays on the 93 issues that have been mailed out to our loyal subscribers under my watch as publisher. My favorite cover of the 93 issues remains Vol. 74, No. 3, the 2021 Trade Deadline Preview with Walter Gretzky on the cover. I remember where I was when I heard the news that Gretzky had passed. It was on the car radio of my mom’s bright red Toyota Yaris as I drove between Toronto and Carleton Place, Ont. It was such a sad moment that I had to pull over at the next ONroute service center near Kingston to make the call to The Hockey News team.…
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