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Chasing Glory 2014
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.
WHILE THE STARS SHINE
FOR THOSE WHO PLAY IN the Olympics, the two weeks of best-on-best hockey is a rollicking cauldron of emotion, bouncing from highs to lows in mere moments. For the rest of the NHL, it’s a weird hiatus during a time when playoff runs are beginning to take hold and teams on the bubble are beginning to count off their rivals’ loser points in hopes of sneaking in. On the plus side, there is time for players to recoup in the middle of a grueling campaign. “Last time you just made sure your conditioning stayed up somehow,” says Buffalo’s Drew Stafford. “At the same time, it’s nice to take a break, get away from all the craziness and reset your brain. But you also don’t want to lose a step because it…
TALKING HEADS LOOKING GOOD
ALARM CLOCKS TOP THEChristmas shopping list this year for spouses whose better halfs are hockey addicts. Because of the huge time difference between Russia and North America (nine hours between Sochi and Toronto) some Olympic events will be shown as early as 3 a.m. EST. Fortunately, few will involve Canada or the U.S. “All 52 games will be seen on Canadian television either on CBC or our partner channels TSN, TSN2, Sportsnet and Sportsnet One,” says CBC publicist Simon Bassett. Ron MacLean, a 25-year veteran of Olympic broadcasts and 10-time Gemini Award winner, will be doing his 10th Olympics, working at his usual post with Don Cherry and Kelly Hrudey. He will reprise his role from the 2008 Olympics as host of CBC’s prime time program. CBC got a head start on…
A LITTLE BIT OF US IN THEM
IN THE FINAL FEW DAYS OF working on this magazine project, I got an interesting question from all-star intern Nick Carafa. He had spent the month engrossed in everything Olympics hockey-related and was fact-checking Ken Campbell’s column (pg. 36) postulating the NHL’s interest in staying involved with the Games. “Would it bother you,” Nick asked, “if this was the last year NHL players were involved in the Olympics? I don’t think I’d watch Olympic hockey. I would be completely turned off. There would be nothing to attract my attention because the world’s best players wouldn’t be playing and it would deteriorate the value of teams winning.” Honest question from an honest hockey fan who happens to be 22. Nick was backloading diapers the last time there was a Winter Olympics without NHL…
ALWAYS UNDER THE RADAR
THE 2013 PLAYOFFS FEATURED ANOTHER BANNERperformance from David Krejci and for some reason, another round of media asking, ‘Who is this guy?’ In actuality, the Bruins center was enjoying his sixth NHL season and people should have known who he was in 2011, when he scored 12 goals and had 23 points in 25 playoff games and helped lead Boston to a Stanley Cup championship. Now that he improved on that performance last spring with nine goals and 26 points in 22 playoff games, Krejci has established himself as one of the sport’s more underrated players. In many ways, he best symbolizes the state of the Czech Republic team heading into the Sochi Games: maybe not everybody’s favorite, but someone you take for granted at your own risk. And flying a…