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IMPORT OF IMPORTANCE
OVER THE YEARS, the OHL has seen impressive import players come through the league. From Sergei Kostitsyn to Marco Rossi, plenty of high-end performers have come from Europe to get a taste of North American hockey in Ontario. That is part of what makes Kasper Halttunen’s MVP performance in the OHL playoffs, highlighted by a gobsmacking eight goals in the final three games of the final, all the more impressive. “It’s just about trying to do anything for the team to win,” Halttunen said. “Now, it was goal-scoring. To be able to bring that, it was good.” The craziest part of Halttunen’s performance for the Knights is it wasn’t even the first time he’d done it. Last year, in one playoff game, he had two goals and five points.…
ALL ABOARD THE SILOVS TRAIN
SHORTLY AFTER THE Abbotsford Canucks began celebrating their Calder Cup championship, a few of the players got to work. Their goalie was busy doing interviews – because he was the biggest reason they won the thing – so he didn’t see his teammates surreptitiously cutting the netting off the Canucks’ goal at Bojangles Coliseum. (Greatest arena name ever, by the way.) By the time Arturs Silovs was finishing up his on-ice interview, his teammates had managed to remove the mesh from the iron and draped it over his shoulders. It was symbolic in a couple of ways. First, it reminded all who watched the Canucks’ playoff run that Silovs was so simpatico with his net that almost nothing got by him. Second, it was the affirmation that, as the…
HEART OF A TIGER
IF YOU EVER FIND yourself on the other side of a card table from Bryce Pickford, watch out. After the Medicine Hat Tigers defenseman went on the heater of a lifetime during the 2025 WHL playoffs, he laughed when comparing his nine-game goal streak – from Game 2 of the WHL East final through to Game 1 of the Memorial Cup – to his strategic savvy. “I’m the family champ at Hearts,” he said. For the 19-year-old, who joined the Tigers after a May 2024 trade, his 12-goal run was secondary to helping his new team earn its sixth WHL championship and its fourth Memorial Cup final appearance. His similar run with Seattle in 2023 made him the only Tiger with that experience, and he was quickly invited to…
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BEHIND THE MASK
IF IT TAKES A village to raise a child, then an entire New York City borough is to thank for the spectacular mask worn by Abbey Levy for 2024-25. Searching for a new look, Levy turned to children from Classroom 207 at Harry H. Gordon School in the Bronx. Putting the youngsters’ art skills to the test, Levy tasked the kids – all of whom are taught by her mother, Margaret – with supplying the imagery. The result is the avant-garde art stylings one would expect from preschoolers: a blue Big Apple, a stylish take on the Statue of Liberty and an oozing New York pizza slice, all of which were replicated by Paintzoo’s Franny Drummond. Levy gave credit where it’s due, too, with each of the kids’ names…
BEHIND THE MASK
THE UNSUNG HEROES OF the NHL are those who work the long, hard hours that keep a big-league team ticking throughout a rigorous 82-game schedule. Rarely do the trainers, equipment managers and off-ice coaches receive the plaudits they deserve. But the efforts of those working behind the scenes are never lost on the players, and that includes Jake Oettinger. After dedicating a mask last season to the Stars’ long-serving and since-retired equipment manager Steve Sumner, the Dallas goalie handed the reins for his latest helmet to the club’s equipment staff. While on a road trip in New York, Dallas’ Dennis Soetaert, Nick Lazor and Andrew Stegehuis came up with a Wild West-themed design that reimagines the Stars’ logo as a sheriff’s badge and features cowboys at the card table.…
PADDED PROJECTIONS
GOALTENDING IS VOODOO. It’s a popular joke in hockey circles, acknowledging that it is still extremely difficult to fill the most important role on the roster because netminders can be a mysterious lot. Some goalies can be the best in the world one year, only to lose their starting job altogether the next. Some peak early. Some peak late. But the fact of the matter is, you always need good goaltending. In the past decade, there has been a quiet revolution in scouting, where NHL teams began hiring goalie-specific scouts to analyze the position better. When Chicago Blackhawks goalie scout Dan Ellis joined the team eight years ago, he only knew a handful of other franchises with such a scout on their roster. Now, pretty much every NHL team…
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