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Trevor Jobe prepares to take a faceoff while playing for the Johnstown Chiefs. Credit: The Tribune Democrat For many hockey fans, the 1992-93 season is seen as the best in NHL history. A look through the scoring leaders from that year show almost inconceivable numbers in the modern game. For comparison, Nikita Kucherov’s 128-point season last year, which put him 11 points ahead of the runner up in the scoring race, Connor McDavid, would’ve placed him 7 th amongst scoring leaders in 1993. With 160 points on the year, Mario Lemieux captured the art ross trophy, and five players finished the season with 60 goals over more. Wayne Gretzky had 40 points in 24 games in the playoffs, and the Montreal Canadiens reeled off 11 straight OT wins en route to winning the Stanley Cup. However, while all that is very impressive, a lot of people forget what happened in the minor leagues that year. As weird as it might seem, they were also a lot of record-breaking performances in the AHL...

The Sutter Brothers. Credit: Sportsnet.ca If we look back through the annals of NHL history, we can find many famous brother duos. I first learned about how deep family can run through the book “Hockey dynasties: Blue Lines and Bloodlines” By: Jack Batten, which details some of the more famous NHL families. That was my first time learning about the Sutter’s, the Howe’s, etc. For my generation, the Staal’s are the most famous NHL brothers, With Marc, Jordan, and Eric continuing to play to this day, while 4 th brother Jared last played in Scotland. However, those 3 are all common knowledge to any passing hockey fan, and there’s many articles detailing their career’s much better than I ever could. What I find more interesting is the lesser known siblings, brothers who despite having long careers, almost nobody has ever heard of. While the Sutter sons are a good example of this, as only 1 of them (Brandon) has managed to make the NHL full time, I’m going even deeper. He...

(Media guide for the West Palm Beach Blaze, circa 1993-94) In the 1990s, fighting in hockey was definitely at a high point. With basically every NHL team having their own dedicated enforcer, a concept the league now tries to distance itself from, both in it’s current game and its history, was once less feared and in essence restricted, as simply put, it filled the seats, and this was noticed from both a business and hockey perspective. As more and more NHL 4 th lines began to contain that designated tough guy (Florida Panthers and Paul Laus, New Jersey Devils and Mike Peluso etc.) Minor league teams looking to attract more fans did the same, causing lower league teams to notice that, so on and so forth. With this, came the creation of new leagues all together, and soon, minor league hockey was a vast and winding landscape, unlike what it is nowadays, with the sole lower level minor leagues of note being the SPHL, FHL, and LNAH, the latter of which is struggling...