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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.
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…
NO TIME FOR GRANDFATHERING
THE HOCKEY WORLD WAS rocked in late October when Adam Johnson died tragically as the result of an on-ice collision in an English League game between his Nottingham Panthers and the Sheffield Steelers. The culprit was an errant skate blade, and, unfortunately, this was not the first time such a thing has happened in a pro hockey game – though it was the first time it was fatal. From Clint Malarchuk to Richard Zednik, the NHL has seen skate-blade injuries, and in the days after Johnson’s death, those types of accidents were on the minds of today’s players. I was in an NHL dressing room the day after, and some of the players talked about being spooked. Now more than ever, players are conscious about their overall health and the impact playing…
NO AFFILIATE? NO PROBLEM
FORGIVE OUR LACK OF foresight, but we can’t know what heights Carolina Hurricanes prospect Vasily Ponomarev will ultimately reach in his career. What is certain, however, is the early returns are tantalizing. If not head and shoulders above his peers, a number of whom are considered top NHL prospects, the 21-year-old unquestionably stood alongside them. To wit, only one player Ponomarev’s age or younger matched his 24-goal AHL output and only two managed more than his 46 points. In an ideal world, then, the Canes would continue nurturing his growth down on the farm this season, keeping him under the watchful eye of their AHL coaching staff and helping him hone the details that transform standout AHL producers into useful or potentially star NHL scorers. The problem is Carolina is without its…
LEARN FROM THE BEST
HOW’S THIS FOR A welcome to the NHL? In his first pre-season game, on Sept. 24, Brayden Yager beat Aaron Dell in the shootout in what proved to be a Pittsburgh Penguins’ win over the Columbus Blue Jackets. Two nights later, the kid the Penguins picked 14th overall this summer took to the ice at Little Caesars Arena against a stacked Detroit Red Wings lineup that included Dylan Larkin, Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider – and familiar foe Nate Danielson of the Brandon Wheat Kings, a fellow WHL center who was selected five picks before Yager. “It was definitely an adjustment to play against almost a full NHL roster, but at the same time, it was a blast and super fun to go against those guys,” Yager said. “Danielson’s a pretty good buddy…
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