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World Juniors Special 2025
In this issue of The Hockey News, we feature wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 World Junior Championship, complete with previews of all 10 teams plus some of the most prominent players involved. Also in this issue, we shine the spotlight on San Jose's Tyler Toffoli, Philadelphia's Travis Konecny and a team from Haida Gwaii that really goes the extra mile.
SO MANY OPTIONS SO LITTLE SPACE
THN’S ODDS FOR GOLD | 3-1 SURE, CANADA PLAYS ON home ice a lot at the world juniors – basically every two years at this point – but winning gold in front of a Canadian crowd is still a major motivator. Once again, Canada will have a lot of hard decisions to make, but in particular, this group could be younger than usual if the brain trust wants it to be. Gavin McKenna, Porter Martone, Michael Misa and Malcolm Spence are among those yet to be drafted who could make this team on merit. McKenna has been the top scorer in the WHL, while Misa and Martone were 1-2 in the OHL. Spence is top 30 in the OHL, but he’s also a great penalty-killer. Having said that, Team Canada tends to go…
MORIN ENTERS THE DOG DAYS
TURNING HEADS IS nothing new for Zachary Morin. As he rose through the U-15 and U-18 ranks in his native Quebec, Morin showed his ability to play the game any way necessary. And in his single season with the Detroit-based Little Caesars U-15 AAA program, he produced jaw-dropping numbers. (How do 58 goals and 130 points in 77 games sound?) Now, he’s putting people on notice for what he’s doing on the ice and where it’s taking place. In early October, the 17-year-old confirmed the swirling rumors by leaving the USHL’s Youngstown Phantoms for the QMJHL’s Saint John Sea Dogs. After he failed to report to the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, who selected him in the first round of the 2023 QMJHL draft, the Sea Dogs took a chance by taking the dynamic…
FROM BURNED TO FLAME
WHILE MANY OF HIS fellow 2024 NHL draft-eligible peers were in The Sphere in Las Vegas, waiting to hear their names called and pulling on jerseys, Trevor Hoskin was sitting on his couch at home, surrounded by family. Already passed over twice and in his final year of eligibility as a 20-year-old, Hoskin wasn’t guaranteed to be picked, but considering the road he had travelled in his young career, it felt like being selected would be a just reward. So when the Calgary Flames drafted the right winger in the fourth round, 106th overall, the celebration was on in the Hoskin household. “I wasn’t too sure when I was gonna go or if I was gonna go,” Hoskin said. “I knew if I did, it would be around the fourth round…
NEW BEFORE IT WAS NEW
WHEN THE FLORIDA Panthers joined the NHL in 1993, Shayne Gostisbehere was a five-month-old infant in Pembroke Pines, midway between the team’s original home in Miami and its current digs in Sunrise. Hardcore fans in the region were few and far between. But Gostisbehere’s maternal grandfather, former Montrealer Denis Brodeur, was at the front of the line to become a season-ticket holder on Day 1. His passion for the sport was contagious. “I went to all the games with him,” Gostisbehere said. “He really got me into it. I’m shooting pucks on roller rinks. He’d hang up the soda cans. He was a big part of my success.” These days, the Panthers are the Stanley Cup champions and the toast of South Florida. But while growing up as a rink rat…
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