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Champions Issue 2024
The Florida Panthers got their revenge! We celebrate the Cats' first-ever Stanley Cup victory, as well as the title runs for teams across the world in our Champions Issue. Also inside: 32 break-out players to watch next season, whether the playoff format needs to change and much more.
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BERCHILD STAR IN THE MAKING
THERE’S A reason Shattuck-St. Mary’s has been one of the best incubators for elite talent the past two decades. From Sidney Crosby to Nathan MacKinnon to Macklin Celebrini, the Minnesota prep school has allowed talent to flourish in a competitive environment. So, when a 15-year-old makes the under-18 prep squad, you know the kid is one to watch. Such is the case with Mikey Berchild, who pulled off the trick this season. “We needed centers,” said coach Tom Ward. “His strengths are what we needed for our group, but he went out and earned it. We have an old-school training camp here. It’s like the ’72 Montreal Canadiens. There’s a white team and a red team, and we throw a puck out there and scrimmage for four to seven days. Guys…
GROWTH CONTINUES
THE PWHL HAS SMASHED expectations in Year 1 as the league works to deliver on promises of being a “best-on-best” circuit of the world’s top players. That promise, however, isn’t reality. At least not yet. With the late start to its planning and a mid-season puck drop on its inaugural campaign, the PWHL missed out on many of the world’s top European players who were already under contract for 2023-24 and some through 2024-25. At the 2024 PWHL draft in June, however, the league will take a significant step toward its best-on-best pledge with the original six teams selecting a new class of players. It’s a star-studded group, including national-team members from Canada, the U.S., Finland, Czechia and Sweden, as well as players from Austria, Norway and the Netherlands. The opening…
TOP 100 PROSPECTS: 61-64
>61. SAM O’REILLY BORN March 30, 2006, Toronto, Ont. 2023-24 London (OHL) HT 6-1 WT 180 SHOOTS R POS RW CENTRAL SCOUTING No. 24 (NA skaters) BY NOW, THERE’S a blueprint in London: spend your first year of junior with a Knights affiliate to get minutes, prove yourself with the big club in your NHL draft year, then become integral the season after that. O’Reilly, who spent last season with the Jr. B London Nationals, is one of the latest examples. “He’s taken his development slowly, and now he’s playing down the middle, fitting in and making plays,” said one scout. “He’s going to develop into that proverbial 200-foot player. He came out and worked and played physical, and (Knights coach) Dale Hunter gave him more responsibility.” O’Reilly’s upside is enticing because we’ve seen this development model…
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TOP 90 OF THE ‘90S: 51. MIKE RICHTER
G | NYR 1990s STATS: 240-200-60 | 2.85 GAA | .905 SP | 22 SO DON’T LET THE NEW dog fool you, Mike Richter has been plenty busy. On a Saturday afternoon in March, while attempting to talk about just how busy that busyness has been, it is, perhaps, Richter’s busiest in recent memory – hectic wholly and solely because of the family’s new red fox lab, a puppy so fresh he’s yet to even be named. Racing around the house and attempting to curtail the peeing and chewing on furniture has been a largely futile endeavor. Stop-ping things, Richter finds, came much easier in his first career. Dog caretaker isn’t his full-time occupation (even though, on days like this one, he kind of feels as though it is). Richter’s second career, rather, is…
BEHIND THE MASK
THERE’S GOALIE MASK ART, and then there’s art that happens to be on a goalie mask. The latest lid belonging to Elvis Merzlikins, which was designed and painted by Jordon Bourgeault of JBo Airbrush, falls distinctly into the latter category. Branching off of the Columbus goaltender’s interest in La Catrina, who is synonymous with the celebration of the Day of the Dead, the mask features several skeletal visages with piercing red eyes, as well as intricately painted straw hats adorned with roses in the Blue Jackets’ red, white and blue. The same straw motif carries through into the pattern of the logos painted on either side of the mask, while Merzlikins’ No. 90 appears pressed on. The cage and back panel each keep with the theme, with the former featuring…
SOUP’S ON IN TORONTO
A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK, Jack ‘Soupy’ Campbell was serving up saves for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Now, there’s a new ‘Soupy’ in town, with PWHL Toronto. When Kristen Campbell’s opportunity to seize the net finally arrived, she delivered in a big way. The 26-year-old started 16 of Toronto’s first 17 games, anchoring a winning streak that reached double-digits over a two-month period. “The whole experience has just been more than I could ever have expected,” she said. “When I was in college, there was the CWHL, but it was always the Olympics that I saw as my future, and the national team. It’s pretty incredible now that everybody who plays hockey as a girl can grow up to play in the PWHL.” Hailing from Brandon, Man., Campbell started her hockey journey playing…
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