Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
Meet The New Guy 2018
On the heels of the draft and free agency, it’s THN’s Meet The New Guy issue! We introduce the fresh faces in their new places: Tavares, Dahlin, van Riemsdyk, O’Reilly, Kotkaniemi, Hamilton, Neal, Galchenyuk, Domi and many more. Plus, NHL draft grades for all 31 teams, P.K. Subban’s “switch,” marijuana in hockey and what happens to all those hat-trick hats thrown on the ice.
ALEX GALCHENYUK VS. MAX DOMI
THIS TRADE IS DIFFERENT. Nothing stimulates discussion in the hockey world like a big trade, especially when the deal is one-for-one, mano a mano, a key player from one team assumes a key role with a new team. There is no hiding room behind draft picks, prospects or secondary players. The results of the trade are clearly visible in a short period of time. Because of this immediacy, fans, media people and NHL employees are usually more than eager to share their thoughts on the particular transaction as soon as they hear of it. I am usually deluged with opinions, often contrary, about which GM is a genius and which one just got fleeced. In the past couple of years, I think of the reaction to P.K. Subban-Shea Weber, Taylor Hall-Adam Larsson…
GROWING UP A CHAMPION
ENTERING THE FIFTH YEAR of competition, the Champions Hockey League has something its predecessors did not: continuity. There have been several efforts in the past to unite European teams in a tournament similar to soccer’s UEFA Champions League, but all fell short. Almost comically, one of the most recent endeavors failed because a Russian team lost in the final (more on that later), but the new CHL is growing. Prize money is increasing, and fan interest is coming, though the latter is a point of emphasis for the CHL’s chairman, who is also the CEO of the Zurich Lions. “Most of the games are more intense than domestic league games,” said Peter Zahner. “If you want to see the best, you should watch the Champions League, but that’s not the case…
BLUELINE BEAUTIES
This is the second in our series revisiting the years in which the NHL’s official trophies weren’t awarded. Look for future Retro Awards in coming issues. SPRAGUE CLEGHORN IS A name hockey fans rarely hear. Unless you’re learning about early Montreal Canadiens stars, or the best players of the NHL’s first decade, or the toughest, most violent players of all-time, Cleghorn may as well be a cartoon character. But the fact is, he was a truly fascinating talent whose life and career have never been done justice in the form of a biographical book in the 90 years since he retired. Luckily for us, historians at hfboards.com spent many hours searching old newspapers to get first-hand accounts of what kind of player Cleghorn was. Here’s a synopsis: Most of the top defensemen in…
IF THE HAT FITS, THROW IT
IT’S ONE OF THE GREAT traditions of the great game of hockey: a home player scores three goals in a contest and hats rain down from the stands, littering the ice and causing a happy – and unpenalized – delay of game. The hat trick, a term that has transcended hockey to denote any time some difficult feat is accomplished three times, is said to have begun in Toronto in the late 1940s when a local haberdasher rewarded any Leafs player who scored thrice with a new hat. And the act of throwing headwear on the ice is thought by many to have begun in the same city sometime in the ’50s. Fans’ acknowledgement of the rare accomplishment endures, although fedoras and Ben Hogans have given way to beanies and baseball…
Made possible with the support of
