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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.
KRAKEN WISE
NOW 15 SEASONS AND more than 1,000 games into his NHL career, Jordan Eberle has undergone plenty of change – and plenty of personal growth – over the past decade-and-a-half. He’s gone from a 20-year-old rookie thinking he’d spend his career with the Edmonton Oilers to being part of a blockbuster trade with the New York Islanders to being a veteran selected by the Seattle Kraken in the 2021 expansion draft. Now, Eberle is taking a career’s worth of lessons into another change: serving as an NHL captain for the first time. “I’ve been around for a while, and I’ve seen a lot,” Eberle said. “I’ve been through a lot of things. I’ve had good times. I’ve had bad times. But you gain that experience over time of being in certain…
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…
CENTRAL DIVISION HOLIDAY GIFT
Most recently, Chicago GM Kyle Davidson has seen his gifts come in the form of lottery draft picks. What the Blackhawks could use now is a COMPASS. That might help the organization figure out which direction some of its young guns are heading. After promising seasons in the past, the likes of Philipp Kurashev and Lukas Reichel have suffered precipitous drop-offs, and Davidson has to be concerned about their fits in future plans. That’s worrying at this stage of the rebuild. Last we checked, it costs ONE QUARTER to have a Zoltar machine tell your future. Given the Avalanche have tried almost everything else to get clarity on Gabriel Landeskog’s future, a bit of pocket change seems like a reasonable risk for a shot at an answer. Colorado needs to know,…
AIMING TO STAY ALIVE
GERMANY NARROWLY avoided relegation last year thanks to an overtime win over Norway, so it’ll take a Herculean team effort to make any noise in Ottawa this time out. The Germans are thin on high-end talent and return just seven players – and one of those, goalie Nico Pertuch, didn’t see any action in Gothenburg. In terms of offense, Germany will rely heavily on the undrafted Julius Sumpf, a big playmaking center who has been on fire in the QMJHL with the Moncton Wildcats. His best target should be Detroit Red Wings pick Kevin Bicker, who plays a fast game and finished second on the team in offense last year with four points in five contests. Defensively, Norwin Panocha is the one to watch. He’s a Buffalo Sabres prospect playing in USHL…
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