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Champions Issue 2024
The Florida Panthers got their revenge! We celebrate the Cats' first-ever Stanley Cup victory, as well as the title runs for teams across the world in our Champions Issue. Also inside: 32 break-out players to watch next season, whether the playoff format needs to change and much more.
AHL Along the Watchtower
WHAT WITH ALL THE moving around this season – nine times in all between Hershey and Washington – Hendrix Lapierre never got the chance to get his guitar out of storage. So, when he gets around to strumming it this summer in an effort to knock ‘Learn how to play the guitar’ off his bucket list, he won’t quite sound like the rock star after whom he is named. But he’ll work on mastering that before moving on to the next one, ‘Learn how to speak Russian.’ If you’re getting the idea right about now that Lapierre is something of an eclectic young man, well, your momma didn’t raise no dummy. You don’t see that too often in hockey. While he’s learning how to play the guitar and speak Russian, Lapierre…
Electric Volts Cruise To ‘Q’ Title
LAST SEASON, IT FELT like every step forward defenseman Mikael Diotte and the Drummondville Voltigeurs took, there were two steps backward on the horizon. So, entering 2023-24 under a fourth coach and third GM in two years, Diotte and the Volts could’ve been forgiven for looking at the road ahead with a leery eye. It’s all the more reason to applaud the team’s ability to move past a prolonged period of underachievement. “We had a couple tough years,” Diotte said. “But this year, the guys showed up with a different mindset. Despite everything that had happened in the past, we believed in ourselves.” By the end of the playoffs, the Voltigeurs had made believers out of everybody. Following up on a 102-point regular season, Drummondville lost just three times in dispatching the…
PUCK CULTURE
1. THE O’BRIEN CUP First Won By: Montreal Wanderers, 1910 Last Won By: New York Rangers, 1950 Named after National Hockey Association founder Ambrose O’Brien, this trophy was awarded to the NHA champion from 1910 to 1917. Back then, teams had to first win their leagues before they could compete for the Stanley Cup. When the NHA folded and reformed as the NHL in 1917, the O’Brien Cup became the NHL’s top prize. Once the other pro leagues disbanded, the Stanley Cup became the NHL’s title trophy, so the purpose of the O’Brien Cup changed. From 1928 to 1938, it was given to the NHL’s Canadian Division winner, while the American Division winner received the Prince of Wales Trophy. When the league returned to a one-division circuit in 1938-39, the O’Brien Cup was…
Another Title On ‘Tap’
WHEN YOU’RE A newly hired coach whose squad has made the league semifinal 10 times in a row and has won four titles in seven completed seasons – including back-to-back championships – you find yourself in something of a lose-lose situation. If you win it all, you’re only doing what is expected of you. If you don’t, well, you’re a loser. The only way out is to win – and win with style. That was the task at hand for former Team Sweden and ZSC Lions (Sui.) coach Rikard Gronborg, who took over the dynastic Tappara in the Liiga this season. The Tampere-based club had been led by just two bench bosses – Jukka Rautakorpi and Jussi Tapola – in those 10 semifinal seasons. Tampere has quickly regained its position as the No.…
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