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November 2023
In the November issue of The Hockey News: we celebrate the Boston Bruins centennial by counting down their top 100 players, reliving 20 memorable moments, and we ask six legends to tell us "what it means to be a B?" Also, we find out why Brad Marchand is the perfect fit for the Bruins captaincy, and we travel to Switzerland with Nico Hischier to get a glimpse into where the Devils star was born and raised.
ALL WASH-ED UP
IN MUCH THE SAME way one hopes to learn about the human body’s conductivity in science class rather than figuring it out firsthand by seeing how much loose change will fit in an electrical outlet before the lights flicker, the life of an NHLer is one of understanding but wishing to never really experience the painful business side of the league. Some do manage to skate on by, unscathed by the players-as-commodities reality of professional sports. These are your superstars, your top-pairing defensemen and the league’s elite netminders. Others, like Dylan Strome, are far less fortunate. Once considered central to Arizona’s rebuild – which wave, we’ve lost count – Strome was traded three-and-a-half years and fewer than 50 NHL games after being drafted third overall in 2015. And even after he established himself…
PIOS BROS
THE DENVER PIONEERS ARE one of the top-ranked NCAA teams in the nation, and if you want to get past the Pios, you’ll have to get past the Buium brothers. Junior Shai Buium is a 6-foot-3 defenseman and a second-round pick of the Detroit Red Wings, while freshman Zeev Buium is an offensive blueliner and a projected first-round pick in 2024. Zeev now comes in at six-foot, but growing up in San Diego with Shai and eldest brother Ben (who also played hockey) helped harden the youngest child, as his siblings often roughed him up when they were playing together. “Yeah, we did, for sure,” Shai said. “He’s such a tough player on the ice now. Me and my older brother were much bigger than him growing up, and we’d really get…
HOT IN THE SHADE
ACCORDING TO ANDREI Kuzmenko, there’s only one thing you need to know about Yakutsk, the port city in eastern Siberia where he was born. “It’s very cold,” he said, waving off a comparison to Winnipeg’s bone-chilling 40-below winter days. “Like, world record. It’s a big record in Yakutsk.” Yakutsk is less than 300 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and, with a population over 300,000, it’s the coldest city of its size in the world. Last January, it hit minus-60 degrees Celsius, its lowest in two-plus decades. With those beginnings, it should come as no surprise the Vancouver Canucks left winger is now a keen traveller. After impressing with 39 goals in his first NHL campaign last season with the Canucks, the 27-year-old Kuzmenko visited 15 countries during a globe-trotting summer, with…
ROOKIE TEAM, ROOKIE COACH
WHEN CARLA MACLEOD’S Team Czechia lost a lopsided semifinal to the U.S. at the 2023 World Championship, the coach was asked if she was disappointed with the outcome. In true Carla MacLeod fashion, she provided a rebuttal full of positivity and confidence. “I couldn’t be more thrilled of where we’re at,” MacLeod said. “This is a process. This is growing.” Her words resonated with her athletes, who bounced back to win Czechia’s second consecutive bronze – the nation’s second-ever medal. “It’s thrilling,” said MacLeod after winning bronze. “It’s rewarding. It’s all those kind of words, but not for me, it’s for them. And that’s the thing when you’re a coach. It’s not about you or what you know or how you feel. It’s about them.” Fast forward half a year, and PWHL…
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