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Trade Deadline 2022
It's our annual Trade Deadline Preview, where we break down what each NHL team will be hunting for and who will be on the move. Also in the issue: features on Huberdeau, Kessel, Hertl and many more.
RALEIGH AROUND THE BOSS
THE ASSISTANT coach of the under-10 AA Carolina Junior Hurricanes couldn’t be at practice one night recently because he was out of town on business. And business is really good these days. But he did manage to watch the workout on his laptop from his hotel room in Boston, took some notes and shot a text to head coach Cody Staves the next morning. “He told me, ‘I love the new drill you did,’” Staves said. “‘You might want to try it like this the next time.’” If the guy sending that text is a Type-A megalomaniac who thinks his little Brayden is the second coming of Bobby Orr and believes his ability to sell software also makes him a hockey genius, well, that’s all kinds of youth-hockey hell right there.…
IN THE CARDS
PITTSBURGH PIRATES RIGHT FIELDER Dave Parker fractured his jaw and cheekbone during a home-plate collision in a 1978 game against the New York Mets. To protect his face until he was fully healed, Parker experimented with a few different masks from other sports. He tried using a fiberglass goalie mask, cutting it down so it would fit under a batting helmet and painting it yellow and black to match his uniform. Parker wore the mask for just one game, on July 16, 1978, and he was intentionally walked in that at-bat. As cool as it looked, no baseball card ever showed him wearing the mask…until recently. Pop artist Alex Pardee illustrated Parker donning his goalie mask on a card that was sold online by Topps as a part of its…
SLOVAKIA’S NEW GENERATION
SOMETIMES A BRONZE MEDAL feels a lot better than you might think. That is definitely the case for Slovakia, which finished third in the men’s Olympic tournament in Beijing, bringing glory to a hockey nation that hasn’t had a lot of big victories in its history. The team rode a vintage bus through the streets of Bratislava in the wake of the win – with adoring fans cheering en masse in the city square. Now, hands up if you saw this team triumphing in such a way before the Olympics began. Full credit goes to GM and former NHLer Miroslav Satan, who hired veteran bench boss Craig Ramsay as coach for the 2018 Games and stuck with the Canadian for Beijing. Then Slovakia put together a roster blending youth and experience, with…
RISE FROM THE ASHES
"Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, morals and self-worth"– Buddha YEAH, BUT we’re willing to bet this Buddha guy never tossed a muffin up the middle of the ice in the defensive zone in the third period of a one-goal game. Because that’s enough to shatter anyone’s inner Zen – not to mention his $300 carbon-fiber stick. Much has been made of Oliver Kylington’s transformation from NHL waiver fodder to breakout defenseman, and the maturation process has been a vital part of that. But that journey to self-realization still hits the occasional bump, the way it did on a night in November when all of the good and all of the bad of Oliver Kylington were on full display. With…
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