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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.
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IN THE CARDS
FROM 1961-62 TO 1966-67, Topps included cards of NHL coaches in its hockey sets. The company retired that practice in 1967-68 but reprised it once for 1974-75. That year, Topps – as well as Canadian counterpart O-Pee-Chee – made cards of all 18 NHL coaches, including future legends Scotty Bowman and Don Cherry. Bowman, who won his first Stanley Cup in 1973, won eight more Cups as a coach and holds the record for most regular-season coaching wins. He previously appeared in a few team sets issued by the Blues and Canadiens, but this was his first mainstream card. Cherry, meanwhile, became one of hockey’s most famous personalities for his boisterous opinions on “Coach’s Corner” on Hockey Night In Canada for almost four decades. Before his ’74-75 “rookie card,” Cherry…
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ATLANTIC DIVISION HOLIDAY GIFT
Perhaps the Bruins will shake off the cobwebs and find their groove by the holiday break, but the early returns suggest that Boston’s entire roster could use some new ALARM CLOCKS. Anything, really, to stir them out of their sleepy start to the campaign. Management will be hoping the late-November firing of coach Jim Montgomery will wake the B’s, but there’s no excuse for the ugly underlying metrics and poor eye-test performance of a team that was projected to be in the thick of things in the East. What do you give the team that has everything? Who knows. When it comes to the Sabres, though, there’s no need to overthink it. Buffalo needs a PLAYOFF BERTH. Captain Rasmus Dahlin was 11 years old the last time the franchise punched its…
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WJC SNUB-O-METER
As many future NHLers prepare for the WJC, keep in mind that playing in the tourney doesn’t make or break a career. From 2005 to the start of this season, here are the highest-scoring NHLers who never appeared in the world juniors
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SCOUTING REPORT
AT THIS POINT, WE all know what to expect from Finland: they’re going to be competitive, they’re going to give at least one team fits, and they’ll be in the thick of it for a medal. Assuming Buffalo Sabres first-rounder Konsta Helenius is in the lineup, the Finns will have some firepower up front between him and Dallas Stars prospect Emil Hemming, who also went in the top 32 last summer. Toss in Kasper Halttunen (SJ), and you’ve got options. But there are also some sneaky-good players to watch out for, beginning with smaller Tampa Bay Lightning pick Joona Saarelainen, who was all over the scoresheet at the World Junior Summer Showcase in Michigan. Philadelphia Flyers pick Heikki Ruohonen and the undrafted Topias Hynninen and Emil Kuusla were also standout forwards at…