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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.
HOCKEY KARMA FOR KONECNY
NO ONE WOULD HAVE blinked an eye if Travis Konecny had dodged the question. After all, the Philadelphia Flyers right winger had not scored a goal in 19 consecutive games – three regular-season and 16 playoff contests – dating back to last March. So when Konecny was asked the details of what appeared to be a drought-ending goal during the Flyers’ season-opening 6-3 win over Pittsburgh Jan. 13, it showed something about his character when he gave credit where credit was due. Konecny promptly acknowledged the post-game scoresheet had it wrong, that his shot had (barely) nicked off the helmet of teammate Oskar Lindblom. A couple hours later, the NHL stats department made it official. If there’s such a thing as karma for hockey honesty, it came two nights later when everything…
IN THE SHADOW OF CHAMPIONS
PHILADELPHIA HAS BEEN A hockey town since 1897. Long before the Flyers were even a thought in someone’s head, the city was home to various minor-league teams, along with the Quakers, who played one horrible year in the NHL in 1930-31. Even after the Flyers were created in 1967, Philadelphia still welcomed other pro teams, from a WHA franchise that lasted just one season to minor-league teams such as the Firebirds of the defunct North American League, the circuit upon which the movie Slap Shot was based. In this excerpt from Professional Hockey in Philadelphia: A History, is the story of the 1974-75 Firebirds, who while the Flyers were winning a second straight Stanley Cup, were up to their own crazy, minor-league antics. Training camp opened Oct. 7 at the University…
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…
THE SEQUEL TO THE LIGHTNING’S SUCCESS
WHEN THE TAMPA BAY Lightning began the defense of their Stanley Cup championship in January – yeah, that still sounds super weird, doesn’t it? – they didn’t hold a banner-raising ceremony so much as a banner-revealing ceremony. The way they figure, it just doesn’t seem right to elevate it all the way up to the rafters of the Amalie Arena until 19,092 of their best friends are there to share the moment with them. Instead, they put it a little less than halfway up on the left side of the zone that the Lightning attack in Periods 1 and 3, so when they’re driving the net, there’s a good chance the words “2019-20 Stanley Cup Champions” will appear somewhere in their line of vision. It’s a good reminder. And if…
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