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World Juniors 2023
Get ready for hockey's annual holiday classic with our World Junior Championship Preview! Inside you'll find breakdowns of each country, plus stories and predictions. Elsewhere in the issue, we have features on David Pastrnak, Gabe Vilardi, Nick Suzuki, Patrick Kane, Troy Terry, Jesper Bratt, Brandon Montour and many more. In addition, we count down the 2022-23 Reverse Retro jerseys, take an early look at the 2023 free-agent class and conclude our celebration of the WHA's 50th anniversary with Part 4 of the four-part series.
SILENT SHARPSHOOTER
IF NHL 23 COVER STAR TREVOR Zegras is all swagger and bravado, Troy Terry is the yin to his yang in the Anaheim Ducks’ offense. Think of Terry, the 25-year-old right winger and shootout ace, as more of a quiet assassin. Terry’s stealth attack delivered a team-leading 37 goals and 67 points for the Ducks last season. It’s a fitting approach for the native of Highlands Ranch, Colo., who was drawn to hockey by the powerhouse Colorado Avalanche teams of his childhood. As a seven-year-old, Terry was even coached by then-Avs captain Joe Sakic during the 2004-05 lockout season. “He’s the reason I wear No. 19,” Terry said. “He’s someone I try to emulate off the ice, just how soft-spoken and humble and down to earth he was.” The humble approach has…
METRO DIVISION
The Hurricanes needed Martin Necas to step up after the young right winger took a step back last season, and he has come through. The Czech national was Carolina’s leading scorer early on, contributing at both 5-on-5 and the power play while averaging nearly 20 minutes of ice time per game. It might be a bit excessive to order him a tasty trdelnik spit cake from back home – but perhaps a suitable replacement can be found in Raleigh (as long as all that doughy goodness doesn’t slow him down on the ice). It’s probably too late already, but the Blue Jackets could use all the tensor bandages they can get their hands on right now. Star defenseman Zach Werenski is out for the year, sniper Patrik Laine missed a good…
FILIP MESAR
THN’S ODDS FOR GOLD | 20-1 SKATING FOR THE Slovakian League’s HK Poprad over the past two years was a thrill for Filip Mesar after having come up through the club’s junior ranks. And it was a valuable experience. He found out what it meant to play pro hockey. He came to understand the pressures to perform game in and game out, and he learned the challenges associated with squaring off against men sometimes more than a decade his senior. But Mesar is also an 18-year-old kid, still a teenager, which gives a certain charm to the Kitchener Rangers right winger’s take on one notable difference between the men’s game and life in the OHL. “When I came here, junior hockey, I can see it in the practices and sometimes in the…
IN THE CARDS
THIRTY YEARS AGO, ERIC Lindros was the most anticipated rookie entering the NHL. Naturally, card companies wanted to include ‘The Big E’ in their 1992-93 sets that fall. But Score had a deal with Lindros that allowed them to work exclusively with him until he played in his first NHL game. This caused problems for competing companies, who usually produced cards in the summer for release around the start of the season. Score used pictures of Lindros in his new Flyers uniform from a photoshoot they arranged, but other companies had to get creative. For example, Upper Deck performed a “head swap,” putting Lindros’ noggin and jersey number on a teammate’s body. Meanwhile, Topps used a photo of Lindros from a summer press conference. The card was secretly included in…
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