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February/March 2021
In our latest issue, we have in-depth features on Zdeno Chara, Steven Stamkos, Morgan Rielly, the St. Louis Blues and women’s growing role in hockey. Plus, we have stories on Dylan Larkin, Travis Konecny and Neal Pionk, and NHL VP Kim Davis explains what Black History Month means to the league. Also, we count down the new Reverse Retro jerseys, talk diversity with former NHLer Anson Carter, look at a player on the hot seat for each of the 31 teams, and explore whether ads on NHL jerseys are inevitable. Get all this and much more.
A JILL OF ALL TRADES
THE AHL NEEDED A new vice-president of hockey operations, and from the very start, Hayley Moore stood out. She was a top candidate when the deluge of applications was whittled down to 15. She remained a top candidate when the field was trimmed to seven. And even when it was only three contenders remaining, AHL commissioner Scott Howson couldn’t put any ahead of Moore. “Hayley kept emerging as someone that was no doubt qualified for the job, somebody that would really fit in well with our AHL culture and was really hungry and passionate about hockey,” Howson said. “She kept emerging as being right there.” And the reason she was the right fit for the all-important AHL post is the breadth of experience Moore gained while working in the NWHL since the…
WEST DIVISION
SAM STEEL has been gifted time in Anaheim’s top-six and has taken a regular shift on the power play since breaking in last season. But he has to start producing more than seven goals per 82 games. Top prospect Trevor Zegras is arriving soon to either supplant Steel or push him. Although he’s still just 20, there’s pressure on BARRETT HAYTON to step in and make an impact. For one, he was drafted fifth overall in 2018, two spots before Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes. Second, the Coyotes dealt Derek Stepan before the season to allow Hayton to develop at center. BRANDON SAAD, with two Stanley Cup rings, was brought in this season to give the Avs a championship pedigree and secondary scoring. He’s far removed from being the 30-goal, 50-point man he was…
NORTH DIVISION
Calgary acquired NOAH HANIFIN in 2018 in the hope he’d evolve into a top-pair D-man on the left side by the time Mark Giordano aged out in 2022. Instead, Hanifin has spun his wheels offensively and has been error-prone defensively. All this despite 400 NHL games in six seasons. Edmonton was the runner-up team when it came to signing UFA goalie Jacob Markstrom. That left the door open for MIKKO KOSKINEN to keep his starting job – but also polished the target on his back. He’s signed through 2021-22, but this is his last season to prove it or lose it. JOSH ANDERSON for Max Domi and a third-round pick? Following a season in which the power winger scored one goal and had shoulder surgery? Montreal then handed Anderson a seven-year deal…
A LONG AND BUMPY ROAD
SUDARSHAN MAHARAJ first felt the warm, welcoming embrace of hockey as an eight-year-old, newly relocated with his family to the Toronto suburbs from the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago. Neighborhood kids noticed him watching their summer ball-hockey game and invited him to join them. “Hey, want to come out and play?” one asked. Maharaj was soon hooked on hockey and on his way to a collegiate and pro career. There was another side to his arrival amid a great wave of immigration to Canada in the 1970s, however. Unkind words were spoken at the rink, in the schoolyard, on the street and on the subway. It wasn’t just the Canadian winter that was often cold and uninviting. “You were reminded you were different,” said Maharaj, who’s entering his fifth year as…
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