In honor of today’s devastating news that Sports Illustrated has been dropped, here are some great hockey memories from SI covers over the years.

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  2. The only time I’ve ever seen this magazine was in 90’s comedies as a “lol bikini issue” joke. It’s actually a surprise to me thats its even still around.

  3. Says a lot that three of the “great memories” are variant covers of the same issue

    Also Kings dynasty built to last lulz

  6. I remember a cover that had Gretzky and Larry Bird with a headline that read, “Simply the Best.” Maybe it was from somewhere else.

  7. I used to love reading sports illustrated. When I was in high school English class, my teacher was a very old woman who surprisingly had a stack of sports illustrated magazines in the corner of her classroom. I happened to sit in that corner so over the course of the year I read through every issue she had. I particularly liked the article that was written by the same guy in every issue, it was the very last article in the back. This was in 2007-2008 but I can’t remember the writer.

    Anyway, old lady English teacher noticed me reading it constantly and she called me to stay after class one time and told me she also loved the article in the back and always noticed me reading it. That writer was the whole reason she read the magazine and had a subscription. This must have convinced her that I had good taste in writing, and that I was obviously a good student in English class despite me reading magazines the whole time. She gave me good grades on everything that year.

  8. I used to be a sports photographer and I would have never submitted a photo that didn’t clearly have the player’s number in it. Maybe others didn’t care but it was a huge pet peeve of mine.

    Gretzky is #9 I guess 🤷‍♂️

  10. Anyone else thinks Gretzky looks like Connor Berard in the “Sportsman of the Year” photo??

  11. Good old Wayne Gretzky

    Worth over 250M

    And pushing betting adds

    What a national treasure

  13. It’s sad that magazines are a dying medium, but I get it. As a teenager, nothing disappointed me more (other than my lackluster love life) than my issue of SI NOT arriving by Friday. Getting it on Monday meant all of the NFL articles were obsolete.

  14. Jesus Christ I read “today’s devastating news” over a picture of Gretzky and about had a heart attack

  19. RIP print media. If SI is going down that ship has for sure sailed (obviously this has been dying for 20 years but to see something like this collapse, wow).

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