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Yearbook 2024-25
We've taken all the elements from our summer annuals to create a supersized, one-stop-shop, 228-page magazine that gives you all you need to know for the 2024-25 NHL season. In Yearbook + Fantasy Guide, you'll find team previews, predictions and features. We have four pages of analysis on each of the 32 NHL teams, plus our yearly Top 50 NHLers list and features on Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, Cale Makar, Victor Hedman, Mark Scheifele and more. For the fantasy hockey players, you get projections for 850-plus skaters and goalies, full organizational rosters, our Points-O-Meter for each team, depth charts, Future Watch and our skater and goalie checklists.
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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: 57-60
>57. TEDDY STIGA BORN April 5, 2006, Sudbury, Mass. 2023-24 U.S. NTDP HT 5-10 WT 173 SHOOTS L POS C CENTRAL SCOUTING No. 44 (NA skaters) WHILE HE’S LISTED as a center by Central Scouting, Stiga was a winger with the NTDP and at the U-18 worlds. In the latter role, he was a steamroller while riding shotgun with tourney destroyer James Hagens. “He’s the most underrated forward on that team,” one scout said. “His sense and ability to make plays in the areas that matter are high-end. He is sneaky, sneaky good.” While Stiga isn’t big, that hasn’t hampered his effectiveness, and the bias against smaller players isn’t as bad as it used to be. When you look at his numbers and the way he stepped up at the world under-18s, you can’t help but see…
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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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