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Trade Deadline 2020
Get everything you need to know for the NHL's player-swap bonanza with our Trade Deadline Preview. We break down each team's needs and availability and list our Trade Bait Power Rankings. Also in the issue: features on Pastrnak, Pacioretty, Scheifele, Kreider, 50 moments for 50 years of the Canucks and Sabres, Eichel vs. Draisaitl, and much, much more.
MAX POTENTIAL
IT’S POST-APOCALYPTICALLY quiet on this January after-noon in downtown Buffalo. The holiday season has passed, and it’s as if the lo-cal citizens have entered hiber-nation. Parked cars outnumber visible people on the sidewalks. The scene could pass for the set of a zombie movie. The Vegas Golden Knights, arriving in town a day before their next game to adjust to the three-hour time change, practise quietly at KeyBank Center, the Sabres’ home barn. The stands are empty. The hallways are barren, save for two players on stationary bikes debating whether they can make a 2:35 showing of the Oscar-nominated film 1917. It’s downright tranquil here, and that seems to suit left winger Max Pacioretty just fine. He smirks playfully during line rushes with Chandler Stephenson and Mark Stone. After leaving the ice,…
MISERY HAS PLENTY OF COMPANY
IT’S SAID YOU CAN learn a lot from losing. If that’s true, a slew of cities across the NHL landscape must be teeming with Darwins and Einsteins. Sure, there are lessons to be absorbed from coming in second, but losing sucks. It’s “the thrill of victory and agony of defeat,” not “winning’s nice, but losing ain’t too shabby.” It’s especially tough when expectations are heightened. The further the plunge, the more painful the landing. Unfortunately, for fans in Buffalo and Vancouver, they’ve endured more sky falls than Wile E. Coyote and, accordingly, sit atop our list of the NHL’s worst-suffering bases. Based on my superior math skills, each is due two Stanley Cups by now – 2.4 to be precise. My calculation takes into account the number of franchises in the…
POWER RANKINGS
1. CHRIS KREIDER LW, NYR CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: BOS, COL, STL 2. KYLE PALMIERI RW, NJ CONTRACT: $4.65M AAV TO 2021 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: CGY, NYI, PIT 3. JEAN-GABRIEL PAGEAU C, OTT CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: EDM, PHI, CGY 4. TOMAS TATAR LW, MTL CONTRACT: $4.8M AAV TO 2021 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: PIT, EDM, BOS 5. TYLER TOFFOLI RW, LA CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: BOS, DAL, CGY 6. ROBIN LEHNER G, CHI CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: CAR, EDM, COL 7. SAMI VATANEN D, NJ CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: WPG, CAR, VEG 8. JASON ZUCKER LW, MIN CONTRACT: $5.5M TO 2023 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: PIT, CGY, NYI 9. ALEC MARTINEZ D, LA CONTRACT: $4M AAV TO 2021 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: COL, CAR, VEG 10. MIKAEL GRANLUND RW, NSH CONTRACT: UFA 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: DAL, CLB, PIT…
TIME OUT
Name Game Use the picture clues to uncover the name of a prominent hockey personality. Separated At Birth Hockey doppelgangers: can you tell these two familiar faces apart? PETR MRAZEK Plays for Carolina Hurricanes. Grew up in Europe but played major junior as a teenager. Born in 1992 and drafted in 2010. NINO NIEDERREITER Plays for Carolina Hurricanes. Grew up in Europe but played major junior as a teenager. Born in 1992 and drafted in 2010. PUCK PUZZLE Can your hockey brain bring its A-game? The challenge is on! Listed here are eight players selected first overall in the NHL draft over the past 15 years. Once you’ve filled in the blanks, the name of 2017’s top choice, who hails from Switzerland, will appear in the red boxes. NAME GAME SOLUTION: TAYLOR HALL PUCK PUZZLE SOLUTION: HUGHES, DAHLIN, CROSBY, MCDAVID, MATTHEWS,…
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