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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.
BANKING ON THE BRAIN GAME
SIX YEARS AGO, A member of the Carolina Hurricanes’ media-relations department was fined four dozen Bojangles biscuits – apparently the arteries of those working in the front office were just a little too clear – for being caught on camera dabbing with Sebastian Aho after a game. They did a whole department of player safety parody video to go with it, and it was hilarious. Considering these were the same Bunch of Jerks™ who brought us the Storm Surge, it was completely on brand. There was a caveat to the fine in that the behavior “may be allowed given Aho’s point production.” After all, the incident came after the fourth game of 2018-19, in which Aho had a goal and an assist. Considering Aho started the season with a 12-game point…
WINDS OF CHANGE
WHEN THE WINDSOR Spitfires began their 2023-24 OHL season, they were coming off incredible back-to-back campaigns, having followed up a trip to the league final in 2022 with a finish atop the Western Conference standings the next season. Those within the Spits organization understood there would be an inevitable decline, with some key veterans aging out, but no one expected the club to implode immediately. But so it was, as Windsor won just six of its first 25 games while suffering several embarrassing blowouts and playing generally uninspired hockey. Entering December with the season already seemingly lost, GM Bill Bowler altered course. “We had to make an adjustment when we realized where we were just before Christmas,” he said. “We knew we weren’t as bad as our record, but we knew…
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…
AN OFFER THEY CAN’T REFUSE
IF THERE’S ONE MANTRA to take away from the shocking double offer sheet the St. Louis Blues foisted upon the Edmonton Oilers in August, it’s probably this: no hard feelings. This was not a matter of the Blues seeking revenge for a past slight or previous offer sheet, and St. Louis GM Doug Armstrong made it clear it had nothing to do with the fact his good friend Ken Holland was no longer GM in Edmonton. In fact, Armstrong got off one of the greatest lines in recent hockey history when he claimed that he would offer-sheet any team, no matter who was in charge – even if his own mother was the GM. (But how does she feel about the analytics movement?) Offer sheets are one of the last taboos in…
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