Revisiting the Wild’s Disappointing 2018-19 Prospect Pool

Sometimes we get so caught up in trying to move forward and grow that we forget to look back at where we came from and enjoy the present. The last few years the Minnesota Wild have been able to build one of the best prospe...

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#HockeyHistory #WildHistory #IvanLodnia #JordanGreenway #KirillKaprizov #LukeKunin
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Anaheim Ducks: Counting Down the 30 Greatest Moments (25-21)

With the Anaheim Ducks celebrating their 30th anniversary this season, now is the perfect time to look back. In the last 30 years, the Ducks have made history — from the Disney days to winning the first Stanley Cup in California and the decade of cont...

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#HockeyHistory #BobbyRyan #PaulKariya #RyanGetzlaf #TeemuSelanne
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Best NHL Players To Make the Switch Between Defense & Forward

Forward, defense and goaltending. Those are the three positions in hockey. Forwards and defense are split into left and right sides, while the forwards have a center to play all over the ice. Some players play both the left and right side up ...

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#HockeyHistory #AndreiMarkov #BrentBurns #DustinByfuglien #RedKelly
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Revisiting the Flyers’ 2017-18 Prospect Pool

Prior to the start of the 2017-18 season, the Philadelphia Flyers' prospect pool was highly regarded freshly off of a draft that saw them select with the second-overall pick. How have some of the top prospects in the pool fared?

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#FlyersHistory #HockeyHistory #CarterHart #MorganFrost #NolanPatrick #TravisSanheim
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Who Wore It Best: Red Wings’ Best Players By Number

As one of the most storied franchises in the history of the NHL, the Detroit Red Wings have also had numerous players who are in the history books and are some of the most well-known in the history of the league.

Steve Yzerman, Nic...

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#HockeyHistory #RedWingsHistory #GordieHowe #NicklasLidstrom #PavelDatsyuk #SteveYzerman
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Buffalo Sabres’ Best Captains in Franchise History

Though technically nothing more than a formality, the role of captain is an essential one in the NHL and has been throughout its history. A captain is the leader of his team both on and off the ice and is also tasked with establishing accountabi...

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#HockeyHistory #SabresHistory #ChrisDrury #GilbertPerreault #JimSchoenfeld #PatLafontaine
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They Wore It Once: Jets/Thrashers Players and Their Unique Numbers

Since the Atlanta Thrashers organization joined the NHL in 1999-2000 and then relocated to Winnipeg ahead of the 2011-12 season to become the Jets 2.0, nearly every number from #1 through #99 has bee...

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#HockeyHistory #JetsHistory #BenChiarot #KyleConnor #MarkScheifele #MathieuPerreault #NHLJerseys
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Wayne Gretzky Trade Tree: Edmonton to Los Angeles

Trade Trees are attractive because they show how things develop over time. There's a saying in hockey that if "Wayne Gretzky can be traded, anyone can," and it's true. When the greatest player to ever play the game was dealt, everything changed; Gretzky's trade tree ended a few years ag...

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The Best Calls of the Legendary Rick Jeanneret

Few things can compare to the experience of taking in a sporting event live in person. But in the case of the Buffalo Sabres, watching on television or listening on the radio may have been preferable, and the reason was simple - Rick Jeanneret.

One of the greatest broadcasters ...

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Revisiting the 2019-20 Vancouver Canucks’ Playoff Run

After COVID-19 put a halt on the 2019-20 NHL season in March, Vancouver Canucks fans around the world wondered what would happen next. Plenty of questions were presented by fans about the future of the season. Those questions were put t...

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#CanucksHistory #HockeyHistory #2020NHLPlayoffs #ThatcherDemko #TravisGreen
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Hurricanes Should Retire Cam Ward’s No. 30

Having your jersey number retired is a prestigious honor. As the player stands on the ice in awe and sees his number raised to the rafters, it sinks in how much he means to the organization. The bar for the Carolina Hurricanes is raised high, as the retired three numbers are among the e...

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Ducks Free Agency Success: 2004 Dustin Penner Signing

The 2006-07 Anaheim Ducks roster that then-general manager Brian Burke assembled was perhaps the best roster in franchise history and one of the best league-wide in recent memory. Save for the occasional lack of discipline, the roster was flawless. The forward group, comp...

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Top 5 Golden Knights Trades in Franchise History

After a team wins the Stanley Cup, it can be interesting to look back on all of the management decisions that led to the franchise taking home the greatest trophy in hockey. The Vegas Golden Knights are an even more interesti...

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#GoldenKnightsHistory #HockeyHistory #JonathanMarchessault #MarkStone #ReillySmith #SheaTheodore
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Every NHL Team’s First Captain

The NHL currently consists of 32 franchises spread throughout North America. Of course, some of today's teams began in other cities, which makes their histories a little complicated. After digging through the record books to find each team's first captain, some of this list's names may surprise fa...

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#HockeyHistory #AlArbour #DougWilson #MarkGiordano #MarkStone
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Eric Lindros Trade Tree: Nordiques to Flyers

When the name Eric Lindros is mentioned, most people remember the dynamic winger that tormented the league as a member of the Philadelphia Flyers. Some others will say his trade is possibly the only time in NHL history where a team has moved away fro...

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#FlyersHistory #HockeyHistory #EricLindros #MikeKeane #PatrickRoy #PeterForsberg
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One for the Ages: Taylor Hall’s 2017-18 MVP Season

On June 29, 2016, New Jersey Devils then-general manager Ray Shero made one of the big trades during that summer by acquiring former No. 1 overall pick Taylor Hall from the Edmonton Oilers for defenseman Adam Larsson. As TSN's Bob McKenzie famously put it, "The trade is o...

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#DevilsHistory #HockeyHistory #HartTrophy #TaylorHall
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Flyers’ Mikael Renberg Trade Tree Still Helping NHL Teams Today

On Aug. 4, 1997, the Philadelphia Flyers made a move that seemed innocent at the time but is still seeing its impacts in the league today. It evolved into a trade tree with over 200 deals and several players still acti...

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#FlyersHistory #HockeyHistory #JeffCarter #MikaelRenberg #SeanCouturier #TageThompson
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Maple Leafs’ Forgotten Ones: Daren Puppa

A 15-year NHL veteran, Daren Puppa backstopped just three teams over the length of his career. Drafted in 1983 by the Buffalo Sabres as a fourth-round pick and 74th overall, Puppa is best known for his tenures with the Sabres to start his career and the Tampa Bay Lightning to close it out...

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Lightning Forgotten Ones: First Goaltender Wendell Young

Before the Tampa Bay Lightning took the ice for the first time on Oct. 7, 1992, general manager and team president Phil Esposito and his staff had the daunting challenge of putting together a team that made a respectable impression on the Lightning fans and...

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THW's Sunday Substack - Best of the Archives

In today’s edition, we have the best old school goalie mask rankings, historical Hobey Baker winners, the worst first-overall draft picks in league history, and much more.

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