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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.
IN THE CARDS
BRUINS FANS WHO COLLECT hockey cards should take note of the new Boston Bruins Centennial box set, released by Upper Deck in late 2023. The set consists of 100 of the most popular players in the B’s century-long history. The legends you’d expect to find – Bobby Orr, Ray Bourque, Phil Esposito, Gerry Cheevers, Eddie Shore, Cam Neely, Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara and many others – are present, but the set also pays homage to fan favorites who made their marks in Boston, such as Mike Milbury and Terry O’Reilly, as well as stars like Jacques Plante and Rick Nash, who spent only a short time in Beantown. In addition to the full 100-card set, each Bruins Centennial box set includes four parallel cards and one “Beantown Classics” insert card.…
THE COUNTDOWN
CONVENTIONAL WISDOM, or at least anecdotal evidence and a general misconception about the way NHL teams have been assembled since the adoption of the salary cap in 2005, has led hockey fans to believe that we’re in the most bright-eyed and bushy-tailed era in NHL history. But that isn’t quite true. In fact, in order to find the youngest roster in NHL history, you need to skip back more than two decades to the 1987-88 Quebec Nordiques. All but seven of those Nordiques, who finished last in the Wales Conference, were in their age-25 season or younger, with 31-year-old Peter Stastny playing the role of elder statesman. And those ’87-88 Nordiques aren’t much of an outlier when it comes to the league’s most youthful era, either. According to eliteprospects.com, there have…
TRADE DEADLINE REWIND
>VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS ACQUIRE:> Mark Stone> Tobias Lindberg >OTTAWA SENATORS ACQUIRE:> Erik Brannstrom> Oscar Lindberg2020 second-round pick (Egor Sokolov) < THE MAX PACIORETTY deal was the first blockbuster trade in Golden Knights history. But ultimately, acquiring the Canadiens captain was just the amuse-bouche. Because if any trade made clear Vegas’ intention to become more than a feel-good expansion story, it was stepping up to the plate and taking the biggest swing at the 2019 trade deadline. The target? Ottawa Senators alternate captain Mark Stone. Ottawa was in the midst of a full-fledged fire sale, having started the season by sending captain Erik Karlsson packing and later offloading Matt Duchene and Ryan Dzingel. Stone was the final domino to fall. A pending UFA, Stone had established himself as one of the NHL’s top two-way talents and…
THE NHL GOES TO JAIL
LONG BEFORE THE FIRST Winter Classic between the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins in front of more than 70,000 fans at Ralph Wilson Stadium in 2008, or the trendsetting Canadiens-Oilers Heritage Classic in 2003, an NHL team tried its hand at an outdoor game. On Feb. 2, 1954, the Detroit Red Wings travelled to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula for an exhibition game at a maximum-security prison. The likes of Gordie Howe, Ted Lindsay and Terry Sawchuk played in lightly falling snow against the Marquette Branch Prison team for a crowd of roughly 600 felons. “We were all Canadian kids, so we all played a lot outdoors as youngsters,” recalled Detroit left winger Marty Pavelich. “It was delightful. We had stocking caps on. It wasn’t a real cold day, and the ice was…
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