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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.
MAKING UP FOR LOST TIME
WITH THE PWHPA’S 2022-23 Dream Gap Tour and the Rivalry Series between the Canadian and American women’s national teams filling her calendar this fall, the familiar rhythm of the hockey season is starting to click into place for veteran center Blayre Turnbull. “Dealing with the pandemic and so many of our events and games being cancelled, this is definitely starting to feel like the norm again,” said the 29-year-old, who spent four seasons balancing Team Canada commitments with games for the Calgary Inferno before the CWHL folded at the end of 2018-19. “We’re travelling a lot and playing a lot more games compared to what we did the last few years.” One of the first major sporting events to be cancelled as the pandemic took hold was the 2020 World Championship, scheduled…
FINLAND: SCOUTING REPORT
AT THIS POINT, WE have to slot Finland in as a gold-medal contender no matter what the roster looks like on paper. The program has been that consistent lately. Up front, there’s a lot of size – with the likes of Jani Nyman (SEA), Miko Matikka (ARI) and Niko Huuhtanen (TB) – but the focal point of the offense will be Joakim Kemell (NSH), who has regained his goal-scoring touch with JYP. If there’s a concern, it’s that the Finns don’t have an obvious No. 1 center, with most of the talent confined to the wings. The D-corps has the requisite puck-movers, led by Aleksi Heimosalmi (CAR), who was a point-per-gamer with the silver-medal squad in Edmonton. He’s the only blueliner eligible to return, opening up space for new blood…
7 FUN FACTS ABOUT BLADES OF STEEL
1. IT WAS ORIGINALLY AN ARCADE GAME Best known for its home version on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Blades of Steel was originally a coin-operated arcade game released in 1987 – and it wasn’t cheap to play. One quarter bought you a minute of playing time, but you would earn 30 seconds of additional play time for scoring a goal – and lose 10 seconds for letting a goal in. Arcade owners could modify the period lengths from four minutes up to 20 minutes, meaning that it might cost as much $15 to finish a game. The arcade version of Blades used a trackball to control your skater and had a large red “Fight” button used to pick fights and throw punches. 2. THE HOME VERSION FIRST CAME OUT IN JAPAN…AND…
HOCKEY CANADA CHAIR VOLUNTEER
EACH YEAR, MORE THAN 100,000 people from around the world volunteer their time to their local hockey organization. They volunteer because they love the game and understand how important these leagues are to the community that they live in and to the development of youth into functioning adults in society. Hockey is often the very first way children understand the importance of being a productive member of a group and to work with others for a common goal. I’m a product of this very system of parents volunteering their time from the age of six. They were my coaches, timekeepers, on-ice and off-ice officials and even those people who came with shovels to clear the ice of snow before and during games. Yes, that’s right, shovels, as I only played in…
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