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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.
DON’T DISCOUNT SALE
HEADING INTO THE 14TH round of the shootout, Czechia coach Patrik Augusta had a decision to make. The bronze medal was on the line against Sweden, and goals in the skills competition had been sparse. His captain, Eduard Sale, had just scored to keep Czechia’s hopes alive, and after a Swedish miss, one more Czech goal would do it. Augusta’s assistant coach, former NHLer Robert Reichel, had some experience here – it was Reichel’s shootout goal that stood as the eventual winner against Canada at the 1998 Olympics. So, for the fifth time in the shootout, they went with Sale, who lifted a backhander past Swedish goalie Marcus Gidlof to win the game. So, why go with Sale again? “I wanted him to be the hero,” Augusta said. “I thought he could…
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…
STATS OVER SIZE
POP QUIZ: WHEN WAS the last time the Canadiens had one of the game’s most exciting players on their roster? Carey Price was one of the NHL’s best players during his prime, but his job as an elite goaltender was to keep things boring. So, if we’re talking skaters, the answer is probably P.K. Subban, who was traded to Nashville nearly a decade ago. When Subban patrolled the blueline for Montreal, he was excitement personified, and he has a Norris Trophy to prove it. Perhaps it is fitting, then, that the newest dynamo for the Habs also plays defense. Lane Hutson has been one of the season’s best stories for Montreal, and it’s a competitive category, given the team’s rise in the standings and the addition of sniper Patrik Laine. In Hutson,…
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…
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