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Meet the New Guys 2022
Who ended up where this off-season, and what does it mean? Find out in our Meet The New Guys Issue. Inside, you'll find features on Johnny Gaudreau, Nazem Kadri, Brent Burns, Matthew Tkachuk and many, many more. Plus, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the WHA with Part 1 of our four-part series on the history of the league.


MEET THE NEW TEAMMATES
THIS ISSUE OF THE Hockey News focuses on the “new guy” on each NHL team who will hopefully make a difference in the team’s pursuit of the Stanley Cup. Here at The Hockey News, we are always looking to add new teammates to the roster to make a positive difference and experience for our readers, and, once again, we have. Oct. 1, 2022 is The Hockey News’ 75th anniversary, and during the first 75 years, we have had hundreds of corporate teammates along this journey, all of whom have, in their own way, added to the overall experience for our readers. This time, we have reached further down into the grassroots of the game in traditionally smaller markets than those of the NHL and throughout Canada and the U.S. As we begin…


THE RIGHT RECIPE
WHEN TRYING TO explain how she tackled a near-Herculean task and helped Czechia to a bronze-medal victory at the 2022 Women’s World Championship, coach Carla MacLeod compares herself to a chef. Coaching, she said, is like stepping into the kitchen: you must go in with a recipe, a course of action that can transform a pile of individual parts into one cohesive unit. In her nine-to-five as bench boss of the University of Calgary Dinos, for instance, MacLeod has fiddled with those directions – say, a pinch more puck possession or an extra splash of strong-side support. Just as vitally, MacLeod, who won gold on Team Canada’s blueline twice at the Olympics and once at the worlds, has been able to ensure she has just the right components to execute a…


KEEPING HOLD OF GOLD
EVEN BY THE HIGH standard the Canada-USA rivalry has set, the net-front scramble in the final minute of the 2022 Women’s World Championship was chaotic. Stationed within feet of Canadian goalie Ann-Renee Desbiens was a collection of eight of the world’s greatest players, Kendall Coyne Schofield among them. And when the American captain had the good fortune to have the puck squirt free to her waiting stick with 38 seconds left in a one-goal game, overtime seemed certain. What followed, however, was a toe save, followed in quick succession by another. The third stop, the most acrobatic of the bunch, saw Desbiens dive to her left, stretch out her glove and bat away Coyne Schofield’s third attempt at tying the game. As a last-ditch effort, the American superstar hoisted the puck…


LEARNING AND LOVING IT
IT’S BEEN 15 YEARS since an Ottawa Senators player scored 40 goals in a season. That was 2007-08, when both Dany Heatley and Daniel Alfredsson hit the mark. With any luck, Sens fans will soon have a new 40-goal man to cheer for in Alex DeBrincat. DeBrincat, acquired in July for a trio of draft picks, is coming off the second 41-goal season of his NHL career, which also saw the 5-foot-7 right winger notch a career-high 78 points in 82 games. The Chicago Blackhawks are the only club DeBrincat has known in his NHL career, but now, he’ll step into the spotlight with an up-and-coming Senators roster. “Being the new guy is different,” DeBrincat said. “I was very comfortable in Chicago and played with some of those guys for quite some…