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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.
HOCKEY FOR THE HOLIDAYS
AT THIS TIME EACH year, from November through mid-December, I am crushed with the workload that comes with the preparation of the publication of the Money & Power issue, which comes out in early January. The last half of December is all about the holidays, so no one is available to sit for interviews on camera or even over the phone. Absolutely nothing can really get done from an editorial point of view, however our printing partner will be hard at work over the holidays making these issues come to life and shipped out to you, our valued subscribers. Behind the scenes, there is a team of dozens of reporters, editors, videographers, photographers and producers who burn the midnight oil to get this issue closed and on its way to the printer…
FROST ADVISORY
WHEN THE PWHL opened for business this past January, all six teams started out on level ground. Heading into the expanded 30-game schedule for Season 2, there’s now a hierarchy. And with her Minnesota Frost at the top of the mountain after winning the league’s inaugural championship, 2024 PWHL rookie of the year Grace Zumwinkle is looking forward to fending off the challengers. “I know we’ll have a target on our back every single night,” she said. “That’s how it should be in sports at the end of the day.” Minnesota’s defense of the Walter Cup comes after a summer of celebration across the State of Hockey. “I feel like the state has certainly embraced bringing home the championship,” Zumwinkle said. In mid-September, she and three teammates displayed the Cup in the end…
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…
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…
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