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Rookie Issue 2024
In our 2024 Rookie Issue, our cover story focuses on two Minnesota freshmen who are making their marks in Year 1: Brock Faber and Marco Rossi. We also take a deep dive into Connor Bedard's game by speaking with his junior coach/GM and a group of pro scouts, and we profile two other sensational rookies: Connor Zary and Dmitri Voronkov. In addition, we look at what's led to the successful start of the PWHL and preview the NHL trade deadline, with breakdowns for all 32 clubs.
CHARACTER COACH
SPENCER CARBERY, who is the youngest head coach in the NHL, is technically a rookie. But any illusions that the 42-year-old wasn’t cut out for the job went out the window early in the season when he made Evgeny Kuznetsov a healthy scratch. It was a move that wasn’t made lightly. At the time, Kuznetsov was heading into his 700th career game. But with only nine points in his first 19 games and with the Washington Capitals struggling to keep their heads above water in the crowded and competitive Eastern Conference, Carbery needed to send a message – even if it meant embarrassing a veteran who five-and-a-half years earlier had helped the franchise win its first and only Stanley Cup. “It’s s---, but you gotta accept sometimes and trust the process,” Kuznetsov said…
METRO DIVISION TRADE DEADLINE PREVIEW
CAROLINA HURRICANES WHILE IT TOOK SOME time for the Hurricanes to find their footing, the team finished the first half starting to look like the contender we expected them to be. But one key component to success was still very much up in the air: goaltending. The two veterans who have been feature players for the past few seasons, Frederik Andersen and ANTTI RAANTA, have been either hurt, bad or both. Raanta was even waived at one point. The goalie of the future, Pyotr Kochetkov, had the best save percentage of the three, but even that was a low bar – he was .900 flat as of mid-January. Should the Canes hope to bring a second parade to Raleigh, it wouldn’t be silly to bring in another veteran option in net. Could…
HOBBY HULLABALOO
WHILE HOCKEY CARD collecting has cooled down a bit since the pandemic-fuelled fervor of the early 2020s, it’s still very much a growing hobby. The Fall 2023 Sport Card Expo, held Nov. 9-12, is proof of that. It was the largest Expo to date since the show began in 1991. It’s the biggest sports card show in Canada and is held twice a year, in the spring and fall. The Fall 2023 Expo filled just fewer than 200,000 square feet across three halls at the International Centre in Mississauga, Ont. More than 500 dealers sold hockey cards and memorabilia, as well as cards from other sports and cards from non-sports entities like Pokemon. Retired NHL superstar Marcel Dionne, who attended the Expo to sign autographs and participate in a panel discussion with…
JERSEY HOUND
ANY TIME YOUR TEAM can throw back to 100 years ago, you gotta do it. The OHL’s Owen Sound Attack seized that opportunity this season, creating a jersey that honors the 1923-24 Owen Sound Greys, who won the Memorial Cup that season. The execution here is excellent, especially since photos from that era are mostly black and white. But the colors work well, and the primary crest definitely has a great old-school vibe. On top of that, the shoulder patch features the player names from the ’23-24 Greys roster – a nice touch, to be sure. The Attack will wear these beauties nine times in the second half of the 2023-24 campaign.…
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