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Playoff Special 2024
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
PUCK CULTURE
RELEASED 30 YEARS AGO, NHL ’94 remains one of the most popular hockey video games of all-time. Here are 10 interesting facts about one of the best games from the classic gaming era. 1. NAME THAT GAME Electronic Arts’ series of hockey video games started in 1991 with NHL Hockey for the Sega Genesis. It had NHL team names and logos – and fighting! – but did not use names of NHL players. For its next game, EA secured licensing from the NHL Players’ Association, but the NHL pulled its licensing because it objected to the fighting. Thus, EA’s second game was called NHLPA Hockey ’93 and was released for Genesis and Super Nintendo. While it used names of real NHL players, it did not have NHL team names or logos. The…
NASHVILLE PREDATORS
POWER RANKING | 14TH WE COULD WAX poetic about the modest off-season gamble made by newly minted Nashville GM Barry Trotz when he splashed some cash in free agency. We could note the grit and guile the roster possesses, along with a few top-end talents. But the reality is the Predators’ playoff hopes will live and die with Juuse Saros. Of course, by his own standards – and those he’s set through his own phenomenal play – Saros hasn’t performed to his potential. He’s only been slightly better than average, and some nights, not even that. But Saros is one of only two goalies – the other being Andrei Vasilevskiy – to receive Vezina Trophy votes in each of the past three seasons, and he should rightly be considered among the few…
EDMONTON OILERS
POWER RANKING | 7TH ROSTER DEPTH has been a touchy subject in Edmonton since Connor McDavid was an 18-year-old rookie with facial peach fuzz in 2015. Nine years and almost 1,000 McPoints later, has it finally arrived? That’s been GM Ken Holland’s quest and Oilers fans’ hope once again this spring. Mattias Ekholm arrived a year ago to beef up the blueline. But a lack of salary-cap space meant Edmonton’s forward depth remained sparse once you got past kingpins McDavid and Leon Draisaitl and secondary soldiers Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Zach Hyman and Evander Kane. Solid regular seasons by Warren Foegele and Ryan McLeod and late-season acquisitions of Corey Perry, Adam Henrique and Sam Carrick signalled the Oilers finally have a bottom six that can match or exceed what’s being thrown at them in…
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
POWER RANKING | 10TH DESPITE ITS TREATMENT as a momentous occasion, the Maple Leafs exorcizing their first-round demons last spring was hardly cause for major celebration. It did serve a purpose, however, as the Leafs enter the playoffs with an understanding of what it takes to win a playoff round and, more importantly, without the specter of repeated one-and-dones hanging over their collective heads. How the Leafs will go about that is clear: they’ll score, and in bunches. That’s been true for years now, and Auston Matthews has arguably reached the pinnacle of his goal-scoring prowess. Meanwhile, William Nylander has tapered off slightly as the season has worn on, but he, Mitch Marner and John Tavares continue to provide enough firepower that keeping up when contests turn into track meets is of…
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