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May 24, 2010
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
ATLANTIC DIVISION
NY Islanders THERE’S A fair chance teen-age defensemen Calvin de Haan and Travis Hamonic will start the 2010-11 season in the American League. If that’s the case, a pair of developing forwards may lead the way among New York Islanders youngsters. Playing behind the likes of Blake Comeau and Matt Moulson, left wingers Jesse Joensuu and Matt Martin will have to earn their minutes. However, Islanders management gave them brief looks this season – Joensuu had one goal in 11 NHL games, while Martin posted two assists in five Isles contests – and will be open to their persuasion come training camp. The Islanders’ second round pick (60th overall) in 2006, Joensuu, 22, also had a short stint in the NHL at the end of the 2008-09 campaign, but failed to impress at…
LOVE FROM MOTHERLAND
IT TAKES MORE THAN JUST talent to make it to the NHL. Any player who ascends to hockey’s highest level owes thanks to a list of supporters that usually has parents at the top. That support network can be fragile for a player from a single-parent home or for a Russian teen who travels thousands of miles to play junior hockey in North America. Stanislav Galiev, a center with the Quebec League’s Saint John Sea Dogs ranked 37th overall for this year’s draft in THN’s Draft Preview, has had to work against both of those obstacles. His father died when he was five, leaving his mother, Svetlana, to support a hockey-mad boy growing up in a hockey-mad country. With no other children and a small extended family, her son is pretty much all Svetlana…
JOY OF HOCKEY
FREE SWAG! Each issue, we’ll give a cool THN hat to the top letter. The playoffs are proving again just how great the game of hockey is. But the NHL also has arguably the most disgruntled fans in sports. What won’t fans complain about these days? Officiating, shootouts, the schedule, Gary Bettman’s tenure as commissioner, etc. Fans always seem to have a beef and I hear people talking about how great the NHL “used to be.” What about now? It’s still a great game to watch. Sure, there are plenty of issues, but the league is in very good shape; much better than things looked before the lockout. Relax, the NHL is in tip-top shape whether some people believe that or not.…
BLEU, BLANCET ROGUE
MONTREAL – Just like Texas, everything is bigger in the playoffs. How else can you explain the hero worship Brooks Laich received when he played auto mechanic for two stranded fans after his Washington Capitals were ousted in the first round? If you didn’t know any better, you’d swear Laich had just taken time off from tending to orphans in Calcutta long enough to dive into the Potomac River to save two drowning women. Are athletes really such overpaid, pompous jerks that when they perform a simple act of human kindness they’re seemingly nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize? He changed a tire, people. A frickin’ tire. (This, by the way, is not an indictment of Laich, a genuinely good person who did a good deed and never asked for it to…
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