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Rookie Issue 2022

Rookie Issue 2022

It's our Rookie Issue, featuring Detroit's trio of Seider, Raymond and Nedeljkovic; Zegras; Lundell; Jeannot and others. Plus, we preview the Paralympics and take a look at some surprise NHL stars.

NHL

SURPRISE STAR: CENTRAL DIVISION

TRAVIS BOYD has lived life on the NHL’s fringes, earning cups of coffee but rarely a full-time roster spot. Case in point: in seven years since leaving the University of Minnesota, the pivot’s career-best season was a 53-game, 20-point campaign in 2018-19 with Washington. However, a ragtag Arizona roster has given Boyd the chance to shine with the Coyotes. He’s already set a career high in goals and is on pace to surpass his 20-point best. At 28, he’s waited for this chance, and he’s making the most of it. If BRANDON HAGEL wanted to assert himself as a legitimate NHL talent, one 24-point campaign wouldn’t do the trick. But his eight goals and 16 points through mid-January have the 23-year-old left winger appearing as though he’s found a steady spot…

Buzz

ROOKIE SENSATION-O-METER

Which freshmen delivered the greatest debut campaigns in pro sports history? These one-of-a-kind performances stand alone

Malarkey

WORLD CUP FEVER FIX

WE ARE ALL STEVEN Stamkos. Well, no, we are not quite Steven Stamkos. His international hockey journey actually invites more sympathy than ours. We at least got to enjoy best-on-best men’s hockey at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and 2014 Sochi Olympics. Stamkos didn’t land on the Canadian roster in 2010 because he was an NHL sophomore, fresh off a disappointing rookie year. He was one of the world’s elite players by 2013-14, scoring 14 goals in 17 games, but he gruesomely broke his leg and missed out on Sochi. By 2018? No NHL Olympic participation. Finally, leading up to the 2022 Games at which NHLers were set to return, Stamkos was the healthiest he’d been in years and playing high-end hockey. He was finally going to realize his Olympic dream. And…thanks…

Women’s Hockey

LIVING THE DREAM

PEYTON HEMP CAN’T pinpoint the exact moment she made up her mind. It could have been during one of the games she attended with her father. Or maybe it was while she was participating in her first Minnesota Girls Hockey camps, where she had the chance to skate with and learn from some of the women she idolized. Possibly it happened even later, when those same women autographed her gear, or perhaps the moment came as she watched one of the four national championships the University of Minnesota captured during her formative years. No matter the moment, once she’d zeroed in on it, there was only one thing she aspired to be: a Golden Gopher. “I was a little stubborn,” said Hemp, recounting her university recruitment experience. “I was set on…