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Rookie Issue 2025
In our 2025 Rookie Issue, our cover story focuses on Dustin Wolf, the Calgary keeper who’s “jumped” in to help the team in its surprising playoff push. We also profile other sensational NHL freshmen: Macklin Celebrini, Matvei Michkov and Logan Stankoven. In addition, we look at some of the top rookies from the PWHL, the AHL and the CHL, and we preview the NHL trade deadline, with breakdowns for all 32 clubs.
RUSSIA & BELARUS RETURN ONLY WHEN WAR IS OVER
LUC TARDIF, PRESIDENT OF the International Ice Hockey Federation, referring to Russia and Belarus returning to international hockey tournaments, stated while at the world juniors in Ottawa that “We want them back as soon as possible because that would mean the war is over.” The IIHF has 83 member countries, and although that’s more than the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s 32 member countries and fewer than the United Nations, which has 193 member countries, it has very similar political dynamics. For full disclosure, Luc, a fellow small-town-Quebec-born hockey guy, is a friend of mine, and I am a big supporter of his leadership of the IIHF. That friendship hasn’t held me back from offering up my opinions from time to time on how the IIHF could do better or influenced me on…
REGARD FOR THE UNDERDOG
FOR ROUGHLY THE 4,756TH time in recorded history, Finland will enter an international hockey tournament without the luxury – or burden – of being the odds-on favorite to win the thing. And they’ll be a really tough out. That’s because they’re going to be sneaky-good and, as usual, they’ll be about as easy to dispatch as a glob of gum on your shoe in 90-degree heat. With the exception of the very occasional World Junior Championship, the Finns almost never enter these events with any outside expectation that they’ll win. But they play with the heart of the lion that’s on their sweater, and there’s no reason to believe there will be any deviation from that template for the 4 Nations Face-Off. Finland’s top-end players at all positions can hang with…
CALIFORNIA DREAMING
WHILE MANY CALIFORNIA kids were out playing beach volleyball or paddling to catch a wave, Dominique Petrie was inside an arena chasing a puck and her hockey dreams. In fact, her biggest hockey influence growing up was a fictional chimpanzee from California named Jack, the star of the 2000 comedy film MVP: Most Valuable Primate. “I was obsessed with the movie MVP as a kid,” Petrie said. “Jack, he used to go around and skate under people’s legs with all fours on the ice, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever, so when I started skating, that was kind of who I was replicating.” As a PWHL rookie this season, Petrie quickly got the chimpanzee off her back by scoring goals in each of her first three games for…
INTERNATIONAL APPETIZER
WHEN THE PUCK DROPS on the 4 Nations Face-Off at Montreal’s Bell Centre on Feb. 12, with the top NHL talents from Canada and Sweden squaring off in the tournament’s opening game, it will mark the return of best-on-best men’s hockey – albeit with an asterisk. The footnote here is that the Olympics this is not. Truthfully, the four-team tournament is to the pinnacle of international hockey what a fast-food hamburger is to A5 Wagyu steak. But hey, while nothing hits the sweet spot quite like the finest cut in town, you’re not about to turn down two patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, all on a sesame-seed bun, when you’re starving. It is, however, impossible to ignore that the tournament has, for some, been defined as much by what it…
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