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Champions Issue 2021
Bolts go back to back! We celebrate the Lightning's historic victory, as well and the title runs for teams across the world in our Champions Issue. Also inside: 31 break-out players to watch next season, the future of NHLers at the Olympics, the push to get Herb Carnegie in the HHOF, and much more.
IN THE CARDS
DURING THE 1990s, CARD companies included practically any prospect they could, from recent draft picks to undrafted junior players, to beef up the number of “rookie cards” in their sets. By the early 2000s, though, the NHL Players’ Association had had enough with non-NHL players appearing in the card sets it licensed and put rules in place on who could be included. Only skaters who played – or goalies who played or backed up – in at least one NHL game were eligible to get a card. Under the new rules, Upper Deck mistakenly issued a Young Guns rookie card of Kings prospect Jared Aulin in its 2001-02 Upper Deck Series One set. But Aulin, a Colorado second-rounder in 2000 traded to Los Angeles, did not crack the Kings lineup that…
FROM POINT A TO POINT B
THE KID WASN’T EVEN supposed to be there. He’d missed the cut when the 2014 CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game unveiled its initial rosters. An injury to a promising young man named Sam Bennett unexpectedly opened up a spot, however, and Brayden Point wasn’t going to waste his opportunity. Former NHL enforcer and assistant coach Tim Hunter was tasked with coaching Team Orr for the game. He was going over his squad with NHL Central Scouting director Dan Marr, who explained the late addition of Point, an undersized 17-year-old center in the midst of breaking out in his second full season with the WHL’s Moose Jaw Warriors. Marr dropped a warning: Point had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt he should’ve made the original roster. “Oh,” Hunter said.…
TAKING ISOBEL WITH PRIDE
IN THE MIDST OF the NHL post-season, Kaleigh Fratkin spent some time pondering the league’s past dynasties. She thought about the dominant Canadiens championship teams of the 1970s, the Stanley Cup-hoarding Islanders and Oilers clubs of the 1980s and reflected on the consecutive champions and consistent contenders from the past couple decades: the Blackhawks, the Kings, the Penguins, and even the late-1990s Red Wings before them. And then Fratkin, a star defender for the Boston Pride, started thinking about her team’s 2020-21 Isobel Cup championship, about the NWHL’s lack of a true dynasty and what it would mean to be the first. “For Boston to be that dominant franchise that years from now people talk about in the history books of the NWHL, if we’re that group to do it, I…
BOY OF STEEL
THE CHICAGO STEEL STEAMROLLED through the USHL regular season and playoffs with a loaded roster that was extra-stuffed thanks to players who needed a team when their leagues were cancelled or delayed. Montreal prospect Sean Farrell returned to the team when Harvard cancelled, while 2021 NHL draft prospect Jack Bar jumped over from the BCHL. And Chicago was already going to be great thanks to 2021 prospects such as Mackie Samoskevich and Matt Coronato. So, of course, in a year when the unexpected was the norm, it was the youngest player on the team who led the Steel to the Clark Cup. Center Adam Fantilli, the star 2023 draft prospect from Toronto, was named playoff MVP with eight goals and nine points in eight games, as Chicago swept Dubuque and Muskegon before…
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