BEFORE ERIK KARLSSON and Victor Hedman’s Gasparilla Pirate Festival garb turned heads at the 2018 All-Star Game, Theo Fleury was donning a tricorne hat and sheathing his stick. Photographer Jim Leary deserves credit for getting Fleury into the get-up, which teed up a package pairing NHL greats with historical counterparts. (Among the comparisons: Wayne Gretzky as Thomas Edison, Mario Lemieux as Michelangelo and Bobby Orr as Leonardo da Vinci.)
The final “Century Series” installment saw hockey luminaries predict how hockey would change in the 21st century. Some foretellings, like a more free-flowing game and more technological integration, were safe bets. But bolder predictions – bigger ice and nets proposed by Brian Burke and Dave King – haven’t come to fruition. Though it took some time, Jennifer Botterill’s hope of professional women’s…
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