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Champions Issue 2023
Vegas is your Stanley Cup champion! We celebrate the Golden Knights' historic victory, as well and the title runs for teams across the world in our Champions Issue. Also inside: 31 break-out players to watch next season, the future of NHL expansion and much more.
PHANTOM PHENOM
LAST SEASON, GOALTENDER JACOB Fowler got a taste of the starter’s life in the USHL. This year, he feasted on the league and led the Youngstown Phantoms to the franchise’s first Clark Cup championship. Though coach Ryan Ward took over the youngest roster in the USHL, the first-year bench boss had faith in Fowler, a prospect for the 2023 NHL draft. “He was capable of carrying the load,” Ward said. “He’s an unflappable kid. He’s resilient, and he doesn’t get rattled. He’s a leader from the net out. We knew we had good goaltending, with Colin Winn pushing him, but overall I think ‘Fowls’ knew he would be the guy, and he did a great job getting better all year.” As a rookie, Fowler got into 18 games with the Phantoms, earning…
HISTORIC CLUB BACK ON TOP
FORMER NHL STARS IGOR Larionov, Valeri Kamensky, Slava Kozlov and Andrei Markov cut their hockey teeth with the Khimik club in the Russian city of Voskresensk. That team, which played in the Soviet League and Russian Superleague, was forced to move to Mytishchi in 2005 for financial reasons. A new franchise was created in Voskresensk to play in Russia’s second division. When the KHL was formed in 2008, Khimik was promoted and played one year in the KHL but was relegated. Fourteen years later, Khimik is once again a champion. With Daniil Ivanov, a 19-year-old defenseman who stands 6-foot-5, scoring a hat trick in the deciding game, Khimik easily disposed of Sokol Krasnoyarsk in four straight to win the VHL’s Petrov Cup. In the series-deciding Game 4, Voskresensk was up 7-1 by the middle…
AMERICAN COMEBACK STORY
WITH LESS THAN A minute to play in a preliminary-round game against Canada, Team USA found its confidence. With her team down 3-1, Hilary Knight scored 39 seconds before the final buzzer, followed by Amanda Kessel’s game-tying tally with four seconds left. It was a moment that the team would use as a rallying point. While the U.S. eventually lost to Canada in a shootout, it sparked a realization among the American roster that anything was possible, even when it seemed otherwise. “That was huge for our team, just showing the game’s never over until it’s over,” Kessel said before the final. “That gave us a lot of confidence and momentum. I don’t even think we played our best that game. We have a lot more in the tank, and the…
SHOULDERING THE LOAD
WHEN SHANE PINTO SAYS he went into 2022-23 “with a bit of a chip on my shoulder,” he doesn’t specify whether it was located on the left or right. It also takes him a minute to note the irony in his remark. “Oh yeah, it was definitely on my right shoulder,” he said. “It was right there next to the big scar.” The big scar resulted from Pinto’s first major injury in his career. His otherwise good injury fortune stems partly from the fact the Ottawa Senators center didn’t really start playing competitive hockey until he was 15. Pinto wrecked his right shoulder during the fourth game of what was supposed to be his rookie season (2021-22) when he crashed awkwardly into the boards after being hit while off balance. Rookie…
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