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Champions Issue 2022
Gabriel Landeskog and the Colorado Avalanche bury the competition on their way to being Stanley Cup Champions.
PUCK CULTURE
TEN ACTORS WITH HOCKEY CARDS MANY ACTORS ARE BIG-TIME hockey fans away from the silver screen – with some even lucky enough to get their own hockey card. These 10 stand out among the pack. 1. RALPH MACCHIO 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum #295 Karate Kid, Cobra Kai and My Cousin Vinny actor Ralph Macchio has been an Islanders fan since the 1970s. During the 1991-92 season, each NHL team appointed a “celebrity captain” for the league’s 75th anniversary, and Macchio filled that role for the Isles. The 1991-92 Pro Set Platinum set featured cards of 12 celeb captains, including one of Macchio clad in an Isles jersey. He also had a bobblehead in his likeness given away at an Islanders game in 2016. And there was a hockey scene in a 2021 episode of…
DISCONTENT TO DOMINANCE
THERE ARE NO WORDS to describe the agony that the fans of HV71 felt when their team was relegated to HockeyAllsvenskan in April 2021. The team out of Jonkoping had been one of the most successful Swedish franchises during the past 30 years, winning five SHL championships, most recently in 2017. The 2021-22 season presented the organization with a whole new challenge, one that they handled with poise and determination. After a dominant regular season where they won 40 out of 52 games, the team rolled through the playoffs. They only lost one game through the first two rounds before facing Bjorkloven in the final. After a few hiccups, HV71 took the series in six games, with the younger brother of Nashville Predators star Filip Forsberg emerging as hero. Fredrik Forsberg…
IT’S TIME TO MEET YOUR MAKAR
AS THE STANLEY CUP final found its shape, it became pretty clear the Conn Smythe Trophy race was essentially a two-man field. If Tampa Bay won, goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy was gonna be the guy. If Colorado took the title, defenseman Cale Makar was the obvious choice (you also had the occasional sicko suggesting Connor McDavid, who did end up the playoff scoring leader despite his team being swept by the Avs in the West final). With the Avalanche winning the Cup in six games, Makar indeed was named the Conn Smythe winner on the strength of 29 points in 20 games. Not only did that lead all Colorado players, but it put him third overall to McDavid and Oilers teammate Leon Draisaitl and ahead of Lightning star right winger Nikita Kucherov,…
READY TO BREAK OUT: CENTRAL DIVISION
Coyotes coach Andre Tourigny will be looking for defenders to step into larger roles and prove themselves capable of big minutes. That will give 21-year-old rearguard VICTOR SODERSTROM, the No. 11 overall pick in 2019, every opportunity to translate his AHL success into full-time NHL duty. In addition to third-pairing work across his 16 games in Arizona this season, Soderstrom was given a taste of power-play and penalty-kill minutes, and his responsible play makes him a prime candidate to leap up the lineup. On a per-60 basis at 5-on-5, winger PHILIPP KURASHEV ranked fifth on Chicago in shots and sixth in individual expected goals (minimum 50 games played). But he was a statline-killing 14th in shooting percentage. Still, the 22-year-old potted six goals and 21 points despite awful puck luck and…
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