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World Juniors 2019
The Hockey News’ World Junior Championship Preview tees up the annual holiday classic with in-depth breakdowns of Team Canada and the United States, plus features on Michael DiPietro and the Hughes Bros. We also key on one prospect to watch for the Swedes, Finns, Russians and Czechs and provide scouting reports on all the squads. Also, we travel back 15 years for an oral history of the incredible 2004 WJC, where the U.S. won its first gold on Marc-Andre Fleury’s own-goal gaffe. On top of our WJC coverage, we have features on San Jose’s Joes (Thornton and Pavelski); Sebastian Aho, Ryan Ellis and Keith Yandle, as well as the amazing story of first-round-bust-turned-rock-star Terry Ryan.
ROCK STAR
IN THE VERY FIRST scene of the very first episode of the Netflix series Frontier, a beaten and bloodied British Redcoat is kneeling on the ground with his hands tied behind his back while Declan Harp, a part-Irish, part-Cree outlaw, sharpens his knife. “Pl…plea…please, have mercy. Please,” the Redcoat begs, just before Declan Harp slits his throat. That gurgling ‘British Soldier No. 1’ is none other than Terry Ryan, who, in the almost 16 years since ending his pro hockey career as a first-round NHL flop has become a university graduate, best-selling author, actor, stuntman, stand-up comedian, ball hockey superstar, master storyteller and all-around bon vivant. “Those three words got me into the acting union,” said Ryan, now 41. “Because once you speak on camera, you get in.” Almost a quarter-century ago,…
MIDDLES FOR THE AGES
WHIPPERSNAPPERS, TAKE NOTE OF these signs you’re getting old: 1. You groan involuntarily during routine exertion. 2. You start caring about inconsequential minutiae, like the girth of your cutlery. 3. Your eyebrows flow in the wind. 4. You refer to people as whippersnappers. Another symptom you might experience is nostalgia-itis, a frequent default to “back-in-the-day” thoughts. I’m a sufferer. Take our Countdown, ranking the 31 NHL teams’ groups of centers (pgs. 16-17). When the idea was floated, I began mental Googling some of the best I’ve seen in my time. Then I did some research to corroborate or refute my memory (mushy-recall syndrome is another telltale sign of aging) and came up with a top five since 1967 expansion. The list is based on success as a group during an entire and…
ERIK BRANNSTROM
ERIK BRANNSTROM IS ONLY 5-foot-10, but he’s well on his way to becoming a big-time, high-skill defenseman in the NHL. The 19-year-old Swede’s slick skating and puckhandling already stand out in his rookie AHL season with the Chicago Wolves. Brannstrom, drafted 15th overall by Vegas in 2017, has made the jump effortlessly after coming over from HV71 of the Swedish League. The Golden Knights’ top A-list prospect on the blueline, Brannstrom flashed his ability at Vegas’ training camp but was sent to Chicago for seasoning. Then he got hurt in the Wolves’ second game when he was slammed into the boards by Sergei Boikov of the Colorado Eagles. But Brannstrom recovered quickly and has quarterbacked the Wolves from the blueline at even strength and on the power play. The native of Eksjo, Sweden,…
THE HEROIC MIND OF BEN FANELLI
BEN FANELLI DOESN’T remember the night he almost died on the ice. He was a 16-year-old defenseman with the Kitchener Rangers when he went behind his net to retrieve a puck midway through a tilt against the Erie Otters on Oct. 30, 2009. It was his seventh game in the OHL, and it would be almost two years before he’d play another. A charging Mike Liambas of the Otters slammed him into the boards with such force that it knocked Fanelli out cold and left him in a pool of blood. (Liambas was suspended for the rest of the season.) The impact broke Fanelli’s helmet and his head struck the partition in the glass. He was rushed to hospital in serious condition. He had a fractured skull and his brain was bleeding…
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