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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.
THE COUNTDOWN
WHEN ERIK KARLSSON became a Pittsburgh Penguin in August, it marked the first time since 1961 that the reigning Norris Trophy winner was re-homed in the immediate aftermath of his award win. It had been so long since such a trade, in fact, that Karlsson was more than 20 years away from even being born when the last D-man to be dealt immediately post-Norris, Doug Harvey, had wrapped up his playing days. Were it several years ago, the Pens adding Karlsson would’ve been unthinkable. Adding prime Karlsson to a blueline led by two-time all-star and Stanley Cup winner Kris Letang? That’s a deal only an industrious kid building an all-world squad manages to trick an AI-generated GM into accepting in a video game. But in 2023 – with Karlsson inching closer…
THE DEVIL YOU (NOW) KNOW
AS SUMMER BEGAN TO wane into fall, New Jersey Devils captain Nico Hischier made his annual 3,900-mile pilgrimage across the Atlantic Ocean from his summer home in Switzerland back to the United States. Summers back home always help recharge the batteries ahead of the gruelling 82-game NHL season. Good thing, too, because if all goes as planned this year, Hischier will be playing far more than just those 82 regular-season games. Hischier’s stateside home – in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York City – brings impeccable skyline views, huge crowds and the constant hustle and bustle synonymous with the Tri-State Area. Each day, he makes the 30-minute drive to the Devils’ facility in Newark. It is the Garden State’s most-populous city, a lively urban area with buildings seemingly…
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…
THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS
THE ONLY TEAM THAT ever drafted Torey Krug was the OHL’s Plymouth Whalers – let’s bow our heads in a moment of silence, please – who took him in the 13th round of the 2007 proceedings. Clearly, they were not scared off by the fact that he was 5-foot-3 and 125 pounds. A year later, Krug and his father made the almost five-hour drive from their home in suburban Detroit to Indianapolis with the express purpose of getting cut from a USHL team so he could return home to play high-school hockey. Krug instead made the Indiana Ice at 17, and then really good things started to happen. But all the way through his days leading up to the NHL – where he was never drafted, either – he had to…
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