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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.
IN THE CARDS
FROM 1971 TO 2009, the Lester B. Pearson Award was given to the NHL’s most outstanding player as voted by members of the NHL Players’ Association. It then rebranded as the Ted Lindsay Award in 2010. Pearson served as Canada’s prime minister from 1963 to 1968 and was a former collegiate hockey player. In fact, he was a member of the Oxford University squad that won the first Spengler Cup tournament in 1923. While various NHL trophies were the subject of hockey cards in the 1970s and ’80s, the Lester B. Pearson Award was not pictured on a card until the 1990-91 Pro Set hockey set, which included cards for 17 NHL awards. Pearson himself first appeared on a trading card in 1952 (he was then a U.N. delegate), as…
CHAMPIONS OF THE OTTAWA SENATORS SALE
MICHAEL ANDLAUER, AS ANNOUNCED by the Senators on June 13, was the winner of the sale process, as he has acquired a controlling interest in the Ottawa Senators. He won fair and square, as he led his group to outbid and outlast all the others after a gruelling eight-month sale process. I know how long and difficult the process was, because I was in it. I also know Michael Andlauer well, and if I am going to lose the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire what has been my NHL home team since the 1990s to someone, I can tell you Michael is the one person who I am happy to see skate around the ice carrying the prize. But he and his partners are not the champions. The financial winner of the sale…
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…
FLORIDA IS AS FLORIDA DOES
THE FLORIDA EVERBLADES’ KELLY Cup run had some similarity to that of their NHL parent club, the Florida Panthers. Both teams used a never-say-die style of play to get into the playoffs and get past higher-seeded teams once there. But they also resembled another South Florida team who reached their league’s final: the NBA’s Miami Heat. Like the hoopers across the state, the Everblades were a “next man up” team. “We showed that tonight, didn’t we?” said Everblades coach Brad Ralph after the team defeated the Idaho Steelheads 4-3 on June 9, completing a sweep to win the ECHL championship for the second straight year. They are the fifth team in ECHL history to win back-to-back titles. Everblades GM Craig Brush – who has held that job since the club’s founding in 1998…
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