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World Juniors Special 2024
Get everything you need to know about the 2024 World Junior Championship with our annual preview edition! Inside, you'll find scouting reports for each country and features on key players to watch. Also in the issue: stories on Pettersson, Rantanen, Hintz, Byfield, Bratt, Necas, Karlsson, Zuccarello, Spooner, Flanagan and more, plus an early look at the 2024 free-agent class.
YOUTH CAN DO IT
THERE IS AN INHERENT ignorance in being young. You don’t know what you haven’t experienced. And when you haven’t experienced anything, you have nothing to fear. That’s the situation the Mississauga Steelheads were in as, despite having the youngest roster in the OHL, they sat near the top of the league standings. At last year’s OHL trade deadline, Steelheads coach-GM James Richmond understood embracing the youth movement would be the best thing for the club in the long term, but even he didn’t think the turnaround was going to be so quick. “After trading (Owen) Beck, (Ethan) Del Mastro and (Luca) Del Bel Belluz, I knew that this year would be about giving the young guys some opportunity,” Richmond said. “I know some teams don’t love doing it and rely on…
CROSSWORD/TRIVIA/WORDSEARCH/PUCK PUZZLE
CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Macoy ___ captained Brandon to the 2016 WHL title, leading all WHL D-men in assists. 4 Clog: two words 7 Odjick, who was a fan favorite in Vancouver 8 Where the Centre Georges-Vezina is located 10 It can mean both self-control and penalize 12 Boeser, with the Canucks 13 Where ‘Super Mario’ played his QMJHL hockey 14 He’s between the pipes in Nashville 18 Flurry of goals 19 Thompson with the Sabres 20 The first Finn named to the Hockey Hall of Fame 21 Mike ___ was the NHL’s first full-time assistant and later took over Toronto’s bench DOWN 1 Defeated narrowly 2 Home of hockey’s Frontenacs and maybe the first organized game 3 Eric ___ was captain in Carolina and now his brother Jordan wears the ‘C’ there 4 Trained reporter 5 A near ___ card is almost perfect 6 A team that’s in financial difficulty…
ATLANTIC DIVISION HOLIDAY GIFT
The internet is wonderful. Did you know you could pick up the Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS, 50TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL LP for around $50? The deluxe edition, no less. What makes it a good gift? Aside from being billed “the most progressive pop album ever,” it features the single “Good Vibrations.” While the mood is high in Boston now, the Bruins could use the warm vibes come mid-April after they flamed out of the 2023 playoffs – especially if they win the Presidents’ Trophy again, which is eminently possible. Listen, we have no problem admitting it’s not the most creative gift, but sometimes the simplest gifts are the ones that really touch the soul. To that end, you can bet your bottom dollar the Sabres wouldn’t turn up their noses at A…
HOCKEY HOTBED? LITERALLY
JAKE RICHARD WAS BORN into hockey. That’s a statement only his generation of Florida-born hockey players could even dream of making, but for the 19-year-old Jacksonville product, it’s true. Richard was born in August 2004, the same summer his dad became the president of the Southern Professional League’s Jacksonville Barracudas. While many kids in the Sunshine State stick to the hot sand and breaking waves, Richard always felt more at home in the cold of Jacksonville ice rinks. It was a gift he inherited from his father, Gilles, who played semi-pro in Jacksonville before Richard was born. Gilles Richard later served as president and GM for the Barracudas, and the elder Richard also coached his son in the Florida Alliance AAA program. “I was born into the game,” Jake said. “I was…
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