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Meet The New Guys 2021
Get the inside scoop on the new faces in new places with our Meet The New Guys Issue. We've got blowout features on Mark Giordano and Philipp Grubauer in Seattle, Seth and Caleb Jones in Chicago, Dougie Hamilton in Carolina, plus stories on Duncan Keith, Marco Rossi, Cam Atkinson and many more.
JONES SQUARED
BLESS YOUR HEARTS, JONES family. You actually thought you could enjoy a dinner out in Dallas in the middle of trade negotiations. They tried it one night in late July. They figured it would pass the time as they awaited Seth Jones’ fate. Days earlier, Caleb Jones had joined the Chicago Blackhawks in a high-profile swap that sent future Hall of Famer Duncan Keith to the Edmonton Oilers. The Hawks had one Jones brother on their blueline, and that poured gasoline on the rumor they were already pursuing Seth to be their new No. 1 defenseman. Seth loved the idea but wanted a sign-and-trade to make the move work. So Seth, Caleb and their uber-devoted hockey mom, Amy, headed to a restaurant to clear their heads while agent Pat Brisson, Blackhawks…
MEET THE NEW GUY
Scan the list of off-season additions in Anaheim and you might think all the pieces are already in place, that the Ducks didn’t really need much. Not true. It’s just that GM Bob Murray is committed to growing organically. No big-name signings or trade acquisitions to speak of. Bruising winger BUDDY ROBINSON will vie for a job on the fourth line. His heavy game will help insulate Anaheim’s crop of young, skilled forwards. And trying out for depth spots on the blueline are UFA signings Brogan Rafferty and Greg Pateryn. The Flames have had lousy fortune chasing expensive UFA wingers with decorated playoff resumes. See Brouwer, Troy (2016) and Neal, James (2018). The latest is two-time Cup champion BLAKE COLEMAN. But Coleman, 29, is two years younger than the other two…
LOOKING UP DOWN SOUTH
AS DAY 1 OF the NHL draft wrapped up in July, news of a trade involving the Buffalo Sabres and Florida Panthers surfaced on social media. Sam Reinhart was rumored to be part of the deal, but the details were scant as midnight approached on the East Coast. Sabres GM Kevyn Adams wouldn’t discuss the chatter, nor would Cats GM Bill Zito. By the time Reinhart could officially call himself a Panther the next afternoon, his built-up excitement was hard to miss – even through a computer screen. “I mean, who wouldn’t want to go to Florida?” Reinhart said. “Nobody hates the sun.” Florida parted with a lottery-protected first-round pick in 2022 and goalie prospect Devon Levi for the winger. After seven years of rebuilding in upstate New York, a new dawn…
A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES
THINK ABOUT HOW HARD the NHL has worked over the past two decades to achieve the geographic zen it will have when it debuts its Original 32 this season. For years, it traipsed through the desert, valiantly fighting for a team that has struggled both on and off the ice. It allowed a franchise to relocate from Atlanta to Winnipeg. And it took the risk of becoming the first of the Big Four professional sports to drive its stake into the ground in Las Vegas. And with the addition of the expansion Seattle Kraken for 2021-22, the NHL now has a perfect balance of 16 teams in the East and 16 in the West, half of its teams in the Eastern time zone and the other half in the Central, Mountain and…
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