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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.
FROM BLUE TO BLUE
MOMENTUM IS A HECKUVA thing. In the team’s round-robin opener of the 2025 WJC against Canada, Finland lost 4-0 and was outshot 41-31 for an inauspicious debut. But after that, the two teams diverged. Canada won just once more (against near-relegated Germany), while the Finns won their next five. They were also the only team to beat the U.S., winning 4-3 in overtime during the round-robin. For Buffalo Sabres first-rounder Konsta Helenius, that loss to Canada was a lesson. “Every game matters because it’s a tournament and only seven games total,” he said. “We had to play our best hockey every game.” And while the Americans got revenge on Finland in the gold-medal game with a 4-3 overtime victory of their own, this was yet another tournament in which the Finns proved…
THE COUNTDOWN
RESULTS HAVE A FUNNY way of framing the discourse around an NHL team’s off-season, particularly when a front office goes about changing the age profile of its roster. Take New Jersey and Chicago, for example. The Devils and Blackhawks approached the summer with plans to add veteran pieces. For the former, that meant acquiring Stefan Noesen, Brett Pesce, Brenden Dillon and Jacob Markstrom. For the latter, it was adding Tyler Bertuzzi, Teuvo Teravainen, Alec Martinez and Laurent Brossoit. And by the time the calendar turned to January, the Devils and Hawks had seen the average ages of their rosters increase by 2.7 and 2.1 years, respectively. Those are the NHL’s largest leaps. But with the second half underway, the narratives surrounding the additions are polar opposites. In Jersey, where a coaching change…
SEW THE SEEDS
LUCAS BECKMAN’S ATTRACTION to life between the pipes was, literally, as easy as ABC. It was around the time he was learning the ins and outs of the alphabet that he took the initial steps toward a career in the crease. “When I first started playing organized hockey at around four or five, we took turns playing in net based on the alphabetical order of our names,” Beckman said. “I was always really excited when it was my turn. I could barely raise my arms, but I loved it.” These days, the 17-year-old Beckman raises his arms frequently for a Baie-Comeau club that’s experienced more than its share of winning over the past couple of seasons. And he doesn’t have to cycle through the alphabet for his turn to tend the twine.…
PUCK CULTURE
1. WILLIE O’REE 1997-98 Pinnacle Beehive #75 & 1961-62 Topps #20 When Willie O’Ree debuted with the Bruins on Jan. 18, 1958, he was the first Black player to skate in the NHL. He appeared in two games for Boston that season and another 43 in 1960-61. O’Ree was pictured on a Beehive photo that fans could mail away for as well as a pair of minor-league cards during his career. He can also be spotted on the 1961-62 Topps card that pictures the 1961 Bruins team. O’Ree finally got his own rookie card in the 1997-98 Pinnacle Beehive set, an oversized set of cards named after the old mail-away photos. 2. ALTON WHITE 1972-73 Los Angeles Sharks Team Issue Set & 2009-10 In The Game 1972 The Year In Hockey #43 Alton White became…
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