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Meet The New Guys 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.
PRIMED FOR WHAT’S TO COME
BEGINNING THIS SEASON, hockey fans in Canada will be able to stream reruns of Two and a Half Men to go with their too many men and get their fill of Andy Samberg to go along with Dylan Samberg. And really, where else could you find both Mr. Bean, the bumbling Brit, and Jake Bean, who signed a two-year deal with the Calgary Flames over the summer? But as is the case with anything in this day and age, it’s going to cost you. As importantly, though, the sublicensing deal that was struck between Rogers and Amazon Prime to give the streaming service exclusive rights to at least 26 Monday night games over each of the next two seasons will go a long way toward determining how the TV landscape will…
LIKE MOTHER, LIKE SON
IN AN ERA WHERE sports specialization can be suffocating for kids, center Cullen Potter proves there is a different path. The 2025 NHL draft prospect and Arizona State freshman didn’t play organized hockey until he was 10, and even then, it was only to take part in the vaunted Brick Invitational Tournament in Edmonton. Instead, he spent his youth doing skills development, playing multiple sports and skating on outdoor rinks with his parents. And while all parents are proud of what their kids achieve, it does carry a little more weight when your mom is four-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist Jenny Potter of Team USA. Jenny and her husband, Rob, work in player development, teaching on-ice skills and off-ice training to everyone from little kids to pros through their…
TAKING TIME TO SAY GOODBYE
THIS WAS A COLUMN I did not rush to write. Typically, when a big news story breaks, I jot down my thoughts as quickly as possible, stream-of-consciousness with some structure thrown in. But faced with the tragic deaths of Johnny and Matthew Gaudreau, I knew I had to take a few days before I could get things right. Like anyone else, I mourned the loss of two brothers who meant so much to so many people. But I immediately realized I was going to focus on what made the Gaudreaus so special. We will, of course, commiserate on losing them, but we will also celebrate the lives they lived. (In this issue, we’ll do so with Ken Campbell’s feature starting on pg. 26.) Amazingly enough, social media turned out to be a…
THE GR8 GOAL WATCH
IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN the time in early February when Alex Ovechkin, from his office atop the left-wing circle, hammered a carbon-copy one-timer past Sergei Bobrovsky. Or perhaps it was Ovechkin’s two-goal game against the New Jersey Devils near the end of the same month. For the skeptic, maybe it took until the slick deke he tucked home – his second marker of a pair of tallies and eighth in five games – against the Winnipeg Jets in late March. But at some point, the conversation surrounding ‘The Great Eight’ and his pursuit of Wayne Gretzky’s NHL record of 894 goals transformed from a question of “if” to one of “when.” Make no mistake, there were doubts through a significant portion of last season, almost entirely spurred by Ovechkin’s eight-goal production…
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