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BE THE GUY
ONE HUNDRED AND TEN years ago, Lt.-Col. John McCrae wrote In Flanders Fields after the funeral of a close friend who had died in battle in the First World War. More than 30 years later, Montreal Canadiens GM Frank Selke absconded the famous line, “To you from failing hands we throw the torch. Be yours to hold it high.” And for almost 75 years, that line has greeted Canadiens players as they’ve entered the team’s dressing room, either in the Forum or the Bell Centre. It’s there to remind them of the greatness that has preceded them and their responsibility to uphold the standard that was established by the franchise’s icons. Generations of players have done their parts, but woo-boy there have been some rough years lately. With a few notable…
THE COUNTDOWN
THE TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS have a gift for inspiring disparate reactions. Thus, when we declared on the cover of Future Watch 2018 that Toronto could “plan the parade,” it provoked both excitement and ire. Mostly the latter. But – and bear with us here – could this be the year? Barring the 2023 Vegas Golden Knights and 2006 Carolina Hurricanes, every Stanley Cup champion in the post-lockout era has had their victory preceded by a top-five finish in our annual Future Watch rankings. All but three of those 17 teams have also climbed to the NHL’s summit within nine years of finishing at or near the top of the Future Watch heap. And, finally, those teams’ average time-to-title from their nearest top-five FW finish is a shade under six years. By…
WHAT THE…DUCK
THE HOCKEY GODS SAID there’d be days like these, so it’s not as though the young man was terribly surprised or upset. At an Oshawa Generals’ home game in the dog days of the season, those same hockey gods took a break from the season-long heater that Beckett Sennecke was on to deliver him the game’s version of a week-old egg salad sandwich. Not only was his team taken to the woodshed by the tune of 6-1 to a far inferior OHL squad, but Sennecke had one of those days where absolutely nothing went right. In the first period, he was sprung for a breakaway, only to bobble the puck before almost going face-first into the end boards. He completely whiffed on two one-timers on the power play and had another…
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BEHIND THE MASK
ACQUIRING JACOB MARKSTROM HAS been a godsend for New Jersey’s on-ice fortunes. But given the netminder’s proclivity for adorning some of the most demonic-looking headwear in the game, his arrival has lent itself to some devilishly great designs. Already having paid homage to the mythological Jersey Devil with one of his first masks, Markstrom’s latest lid – designed and painted by longtime collaborator Jordon Bourgeault of JBo Airbrush – combines the obvious monster motif with tried-and-true portrait design to outstanding effect. The devil’s gaping maw, complete with forked tongue, stretches around Markstrom’s cage, while embers spit off the white-hot pitchfork and tail on the side panels. The Devils logo, painted to appear as if carved into bone, rests on the mask’s crown, too. Of course, seeing it requires one to…
FORGOT ABOUT TREY?
ADAM NIGHTINGALE WAS hardly off the plane from the Under-18 World Championship in Germany when the call came in. It was May 2022, and Nightingale was driving to East Lansing, Mich. Not even one day earlier, he had helped guide Team USA to silver at the U-18s, and here Nightingale was set to be named coach of his alma mater, returning almost two decades after he played his final game as a Spartan and nine years after leaving his post as Michigan State’s director of hockey operations. On the line was an advisor for Trey Augustine, who had just played his heart out for Nightingale’s American outfit, taking the blue paint in the tournament’s semifinal and gold-medal games. Augustine’s advisor wanted to know how the then-17-year-old keeper had fared at the…
BEHIND THE MASK
AS THE GAP BETWEEN goalie gear and legitimate artistic expression continues to shrink, it only makes sense that the lines between equipment and fine craftsmanship continue to blur. For proof, look no further than Andrei Vasilevskiy’s latest headwear, designed by Sylabrush’s Sylvie Marsolais. Throughout his time with the Tampa Bay Lightning, the two-time Stanley Cup champion has leaned on similar iconography: the ‘Big Cat’ always has his lion, and that remains on his new lid. However, gone is the photorealistic, lightning-eyed king of the jungle in favor of an homage to Gzhel pottery. Painted in clean and distinct blue and white, as were the renowned Russian ceramics of the 1800s, Vasilevskiy’s mask ties together his signature style with a nod to old-world art.…
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