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Rookie Issue 2019
It’s THN’s Rookie Issue, with a focus on the NHL’s best freshman. Our cover story? Not surprisingly it’s Elias Pettersson, who’s busted onto the scene with the one of the best rookie seasons in recent memory. Also in the issue, we feature Rasmus Dahlin, Miro Heiskanen, Andrei Svechnikov, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and many more. Plus: Why Ottawa’s future is actually bright; Gaudreau vs. Marner: who would you take?; and Gino Odjick’s return from near death.
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JOHNNY GAUDREAU vs. MITCH MARNER
PROTOTYPES. EACH HOCKEY fan has a picture in his or her mind of what a particular type of player can do. Centers are the quarterbacks of hockey. They control the puck and often score goals, but, more importantly, the good ones make their teammates better. In modern lingo, they “dish” the puck to goal-scoring wingers or offensive defensemen who are “joining the play.” the good wingers are essentially goal-scorers who can finish the opportunities their centers create. Some, like Alex Ovechkin, are always visible. Others, like Patrik Laine, are often invisible until they are in a position to do immediate damage. Like Ovechkin and Laine, top NHL wingers are expected to have enough size and strength to win board battles for the puck. When the prototypes are broken, fans become confused.…
OF GIRLS, FINNS AND SMALL WINS
WHEN I WAS GROWING up in Toronto in the mid-1970s, I knew one female hockey player. Her name was Lesley Greenspoon, a brave, wee pioneer of sorts who eschewed ringette to join us little dudes at Don Valley Village for a few years. Girls leagues were sparse; if she wanted to play hockey locally, it was all boys or bust. Fast forward to Christmas 2018, as I watched my then 12-year-old niece unwrap gifts, gushing with joy and gratitude as she got a hockey bag and an Ottawa Senators’ jersey to go along with the pair of Sens tickets she’d already received. Her little sister also plays, as does the seven-year-old daughter of my first cousin in Hamilton. During the time Lesley Greenspoon opted to be the only girl in a…
NAME GAME
TRIVIABy Larry Humber 1. Swift Current’s major junior team 2. Alaska-born Matt ___ had a long NHL career 3. Slashes, ___ the lumber on 4. T-Mobile Arena site 5. Players who are both talented and talked about, like ‘The Kid’ and ‘Ovie’ 6. Bruin from Trencin 7. Mesh material 8. Hooked or held 9. Let go a hard shot (or, opened a bottle of wine) 10. First name of hard-shooting Hab, pictured 11. Shack or Shore 12. Gets ready to scrap, ___ off 13. Belleville’s old OHL team 14. Hayley Wickenheiser was a five-time ___, winning four golds 15. Part of the stick 16. Freezing the puck: 2 words 17. A KHL city (it’s in Latvia) 18. The ‘E’ in EHL 19. He drafted the Sedins while GM in Vancouver 20. Cliff’s son Chuck ___ is GM in Philly 21. He’s an alternate captain in San Jose 22. He wears the ‘C’…