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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.
BEHIND THE MASK
LOGAN THOMPSON | WASHINGTON CAPITALS WE’RE NOT SURE ABOUT Logan Thompson’s credentials as a history buff, but perhaps he was heeding the words of Abraham Lincoln – “Don’t say, ‘If I can.’ Say, ‘I will.’ ” – when he sought to prove himself as a true-blue contender for a starting gig in the NHL. Thompson’s ambition led to him requesting a trade and subsequently landing in Washington, where the Lincoln Memorial’s iconic statue of ‘Honest Abe’ has become a key feature on the back panel of the 27-year-old’s first Capitals mask. Designed and painted by Friedesigns’ Dave Fried, who has worked with Thompson since he was with the WHL’s Brandon Wheat Kings, the new lid embraces the themes of the U.S. capital, incorporating the Capitol Building and a bald eagle, which…
HOCKEY NIGHT IN MANILA
WHEN CANADIAN FOReign service worker Ian McGrath was first approached about a job opening in the Philippines, he ran through a mental checklist. A place he could envision himself with his wife and four kids? Check. Good gig? Absolutely. Tropical island? That didn’t hurt. And he chalked it up as a nice bonus that he’d have the opportunity to get in some scenic rounds of golf. But as he started to prepare for the move, McGrath was told about another, unexpected benefit: a decent hockey league – one he could hop into and play a few times a week. This, he admits, he met with disbelief. “I thought, if there is a hockey league, it’s probably like the league I heard about in India where it’s in a shopping mall, has…
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…
BETTER LATE THAN EARLY
KYLE BOLLERS HAD NO intention of playing pro hockey when he attended the Cincinnati Cyclones’ 2021-22 training camp. Bollers, then a student-athlete at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), was invited to the ECHL camp by Cyclones coach Jason Payne. Bollers had known Payne since he was a little kid because the two frequently crossed paths at different skills camps in the Greater Toronto Area, where Payne, a former minor-league enforcer, began his coaching career. “When you’re a minority in a sport, you kind of just gravitate to each other,” Bollers said. Given that his own team’s first few pre-season games were on the horizon, Ryerson coach Johnny Duco was weary about Bollers’ weekend sojourn to Ohio. But, still, Duco let him go. Besides, Bollers just wanted to see how he fared…
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