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Superstar Issue 2018
Our Superstars Issue digs deeply to deliver the goods on the best of the best. Connor McDavid’s inner circle recounts his rise from youth to the NHL. Sidney Crosby and friends analyze some of his most memorable moments. How has Alex Ovechkin’s life changed after Stanley? All this and much more.
PROFILE OF A PRODIGY
ALMOST EVERYTHING Connor Bedard does belies his birth certificate, which incidentally reads July 17, 2005. A lot of us have concert T-shirts older than that. Yes, Connor Bedard is just 13. Barely. And yes, he’s being profiled in The Hockey News, making him perhaps the youngest player who has received such a distinction. And while today’s 13-year-old phenom could well be 2022’s 17-year-old fourth-liner, everything Bedard does reveals markers of future greatness. He trains like a man, skates like a man, shoots like a man and has been playing with older players since he first started playing the game at five. He is mature beyond his years and is driven in the same way Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid were at the same age. So it should come as no surprise…
WESTERN CONFERENCE
>ANAHEIM DUCKS The Ducks struck upon a good thing nabbing WILLIAM KARLSSON in the second round in 2011. He was a small center and advanced from ninth to sixth to third on the Ducks’ list of prospects in subsequent years. But he went to Columbus for James Wisniewski in a 2015 trade-deadline deal. >ARIZONA COYOTES DEVAN DUBNYK was at rock bottom when he passed through Arizona. The 14th pick in 2004 wore out welcomes in Edmonton, Nashville and Montreal and stumbled in the AHL before signing in 2014. Arizona traded him for a third-round pick despite his .916 SP in 19 games. >CALGARY FLAMES Rob Ramage was a key cog (and Rick Wamsley a reliable backup) in Calgary’s march to the 1989 Cup. But the cost to get those stalwarts was staggering. BRETT HULL, 23,…
MEET A MASCOT
HARVEY THE HOUND | CALGARY FLAMES There was a time not too long ago when NHL arenas were free from mascot shenanigans. It wasn’t until 1983 when the Calgary Flames introduced the hockey world to Harvey the Hound, the league’s first official team mascot. Harvey is described as “happy-go-lucky, hardworking, hopeless at times, hungry at most and huggable.” Evidently he’ll also play the role of escort, as his bio says he’s available for hire to be your prom date. Of course, Harvey is most famous for his tete-a-tete with Craig MacTavish. On Jan. 20, 2003, as the Flames were routing the Edmonton Oilers 4-0 at the Saddledome in a classic Battle of Alberta match, Harvey made his way to the glass behind Edmonton’s bench and began to wreak havoc. Frustrated Oilers players…
THREE LEAGUES, THREE TO WATCH
WE ARE ENTERING AN interesting time in major junior. As top-end teen players become better prepared for the pro game and inexpensive entry-level contracts make them a better roster option than “middle-class” NHLers, the big names in the CHL tend to be the younger ones. Sure, you’ll still find overagers putting up gaudy stats in all three circuits, but for the future stars of the NHL, it’s better to look younger. OHL The OHL may not have the first-round breadth it usually does in this year’s NHL draft, but the high-end talent is still there, headlined by Barrie Colts center Ryan Suzuki. The younger brother of Montreal Canadiens prospect Nick Suzuki, Ryan has bolted out of the gates as one of the OHL’s leading scorers and confirmed why the Colts took him…
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