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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.
NHL’s MOUNT RUSHMORE
MARIO LEMIEUX BY DEJAN KOVACEVIC MARIO LEMIEUX DOESN’T belong on the NHL’s Mount Rushmore, but only because he deserves his own peak. No one has ever performed at a higher level. No one has ever produced a more complete package. That, ultimately, should be the signature for No. 66’s career. He wasn’t the most prolific, like Wayne Gretzky. He didn’t revolutionize the game, like Bobby Orr. He didn’t rule the sport for a quarter-century, like Gordie Howe. But Lemieux brought a combination of size and speed, skill and smarts, finesse and finish, Jean Beliveau-level grace and championship-level grit. And when put together, it was the likes of which the game has never seen before or since inside a single sweater. Lemieux was exactly what his surname means in his native French: the best. I’m a…
MR. NIGHBOR’S NEIGHBORHOOD
DETERMINING WHO WOULD win the Selke Trophy in the seasons before the award existed was the most difficult installment of this Retro Awards series. From the 18 seasons prior to 1977-78, when the trophy was introduced, plenty of helpful information exists – detailed penalty-kill results, goals-for and goals-against data, annual scouting reports, NHL team media guides and old issues of The Hockey News. But prior to 1960, it gets a lot more difficult. That far back, there’s no data on the strength of a team’s penalty kill or even strong statistical evidence of who their penalty killers were (other than shorthanded scoring totals). This is the toughest part of the project. One needs to rely more on a team’s overall defensive record, what you know about the defensive reputations of prominent…
BIG DEAL IN BIG ‘D’
THE CLAPPING STARTS THE second Tyler Seguin boards the plane. He stares down the aisle to see all his teammates grinning. It’s a surreal moment that he says he’ll never forget. The Stars, on their way to training camp in Boise, Idaho, are cheering Seguin because he’s just signed an eight-year, $78.8-million extension, announced this mid-September morning as part of the team’s start-of-camp media day in Dallas. They know they have their top center for close to the next decade, and they’re ecstatic. It’s a 180-degree turn from what appeared to be a dicey situation between Seguin and the Stars just a few weeks earlier. Seguin was entering the final season of his contract, and while he still had a year to ink an extension, John Tavares’ decision to leave the New…
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…
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