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Playoff Special Issue 2023
Check out our annual Playoff Special, breaking down the chances for each team vying to lift the Stanley Cup. In addition to our full-page team previews, depth charts and Fantasy Zone, we have features on Linus Ullmark, Josh Morrissey, Adam Fox and Ryan O'Reilly, plus we dig deep on the many playoff myths to find out what's fact and what's fiction. On top of our NHL coverage, we also shine a spotlight on the stars from the top teams in the AHL, ECHL, PHF, PWHPA, CHL, NCAA and more.
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
THN POWER RANKING | 15TH THE SONG REMAINS the same in Pittsburgh, where the Penguins were once again buyers at the trade deadline, despite not having a guaranteed playoff spot to their name. But when the summer featured the re-signing of Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang, it was pretty obvious that GM Ron Hextall wasn’t going to fold before all the cards were on the table. And when Malkin, Letang and Sidney Crosby make up your high end, the temptation to keep running into battle is alluring. Jake Guentzel typically gets even better in the post-season, while veteran Nick Bonino was an archetypal deadline pick-up who won two Stanley Cups in his previous stint with the Penguins. Toss in valuable players such as Jason Zucker, Bryan Rust and Rickard Rakell, and the…
HITTING HIS MARK
BOSTON GOALIE Linus Ullmark didn’t just walk into the room for his media availability at all-star weekend in Florida; he made an entrance. With a silver-and-white paisley suit enrobing his 6-foot-5 frame and a matching fedora that would make teammate/hockey style icon David Pastrnak proud, Ullmark was impossible to miss – just like his play on the ice for the Bruins this season. “I talked to my tailor and said, ‘Hey, we need to come up with something fancy now that it’s in Florida and it’s my first one,’” Ullmark said. And hey, mission accomplished on that front. But the weekend also gave one of the NHL’s newest stars a chance to take it all in, as he was now in the same company as netminding titans such as Andrei Vasilevskiy,…
CROSSWORD/ HOCKEY TRIVIA/ WORD SEARCH/ PUCK PUZZLE
CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Periods 4 ‘The Dominator’ was a six-time Vezina Trophy winner 7 On the road 8 Wearing headgear, as all players are now 10 Golden Knights’ Chandler ___ 12 He wears an ‘A’ in Edmonton 13 First name of hockey’s original ‘Cat,’ who went on to coach the Rangers and Blues 14 Hockey’s ‘Holy Grail’ 18 Novices 19 ___-ending will get you a stint in the sin bin 20 Owen ___ is home of the OHL’s Attack 21 Stan Mikita centered this line DOWN 1 Oakland team that had a brief stint in the NHL 2 Non-professionals, like the early Olympians 3 Thomas or Alexander ___ 4 A team’s first game on its own ice: two words 5 Caleb Jones’ big brother, pictured 6 ‘Busher’ Jackson was a member of the Maple Leafs’ famed ‘___ ___’ 9 Came close to scoring 11 Lady Byng’s husband was ___ Byng 12 Vegas has…
NEW JERSEY DEVILS
THN POWER RANKING | 7TH THE DEVILS ARE all about using their speed at both ends of the ice. New Jersey’s rush attack has been a boon all season long, and quick-strike goals have kept opponents on their heels. When the Devils are on the forecheck, the name of the game is still speed, and that pressure forces the other team to make difficult decisions with the puck. Their strategy in the defensive-zone? You guessed it: play with speed. New Jersey’s defensemen close fast on the puck-carrier and get great support from their forwards, often outnumbering the attacking enemy and, again, forcing their opponents to think rashly. All of this adds up to New Jersey being one of the top possession teams in the NHL. Overall, under the watchful eye of third-year coach…
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