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Meet The New Guys 2023
Find out who landed where and what it means in our Meet The New Guys Issue. Inside, you'll see features on Connor Bedard, Erik Karlsson, P-L Dubois and many, many more. Plus, we look at the impact of the new Professional Women's Hockey League, and we remember Rodion Amirov, Rocky Wirtz and Brian O'Neill.
HONOUR, PRIDE, COURAGE
IT’S BEEN SPECULATED THERE are pictures somewhere out there in which Rodion Amirov is not smiling. But good luck tracking those down. Smiling while he’s skating out onto the ice for a game in Russia. Smiling when he’s young and strong with shredded abs on a paddleboard. Smiling under a hat he’s wearing to hide the fact chemotherapy has robbed him of the lovely head of hair he once had. Smiling during an on-ice session with Maple Leafs assistant GM Hayley Wickenheiser just days before receiving the grimmest diagnosis imaginable. Rodion Amirov was a skilled, silky-smooth left winger with outstanding offensive instincts. He was good enough to be taken in the top half of the first round of the 2020 NHL draft. Nobody was predicting superstardom, but neither was anyone forecasting…
FINDING THEIR CHILL
BEFORE BRAD Treliving was GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, before he was GM of the Calgary Flames and before he was president of the Central League, he was a 6-foot-4, 225-pound defenseman in the minors. Treliving played for the ECHL’s Winston-Salem Thunderbirds, Louisville Icehawks and Greensboro Monarchs, among others. But one of his most intriguing stints in the ECHL came with the Columbus Chill in the early 1990s, nearly a decade before the Blue Jackets brought NHL hockey to the Ohio capital. Those Chill teams weren’t particularly successful, but they did lead the league in one category: penalty minutes. And keep in mind, a real-life Hanson brother, Steve Carlson, coached one of their opponents, the Johnstown Chiefs. “Terry Ruskowski was the coach, and there wasn’t really any confusion as to…
GAME ON!
WHEN THE PUCK DROPS on the new Professional Women’s Hockey League – the PWHL – in January, it will mark the end of an era, and the beginning of the biggest opportunity for the success of professional women’s hockey in history. After decades of leagues launching, folding and rebranding, the CWHL, NWHL, PHF and PWHPA are gone. What remains is a single, six-team league that will be stocked with the world’s best players. It’s a league that will feature Olympians such as Marie-Philip Poulin and Hilary Knight playing alongside past PHF MVPs Loren Gabel and Kennedy Marchment, as well as new NCAA graduates and international stars such as Alina Mueller, Taylor Heise, Emma Soderberg and Sophie Jaques. The final piece to this seemingly ever-evolving puzzle came June 29, when the Mark Walter…
THE STAR OF STARS
ALBERTINE LAPENSEE SHONE brightly, albeit briefly, as the first superstar of women’s hockey. During her short-lived career, spanning only two seasons between 1915 and 1917, Lapensee captured the minds of fans and media, who called her “the world’s premiere women’s hockeyist” and “the lady hockey marvel.” Entering the Eastern Ladies’ Hockey League – founded in Montreal during the First World War – at 17, Lapensee had fans packing arenas to see her and her Cornwall Victorias play. As The Ottawa Journal wrote, “She was the attraction that resulted in most of the spectators being present. Everyone wanted to see her perform.” Lapensee, “a tempestuous and controversial teenage superstar who might be the greatest female player of all time,” led the Victorias on a gargantuan undefeated run, with the team winning 45 games…