The category had so many great covers, it was hard to limit myself to just two choices. You can vote on your fave cover below by clicking here.

The launch of SportsNet magazine was arguably the biggest newsstand story of 2011… a very gutsy move. So we tip our cap to Sportsnet for giving us this cover, which played to our national pride, in repatriating the Jets to Winnipeg.  The cover debuted on October 17, 2011.

The Hockey News published this fabulous Draft Preview Special.  It sold 15 percent better than the prior year’s edition. Plus efficiency improved by 5 pts.

The Hockey News also published the Best Players of All Time Special (see original prediction from Cover of the Week http://www.coverssell.com/?p=2560  

This issue is the best-selling SIP ever published by The Hockey News, and outsold last year’s special in this same time slot by 39 percent. Plus, the sell-through improved by 15 pts. An incredible result. Great One indeed.

And while there is no way of knowing how The Year In Sports SIP from SportsNet (it went on sale in December of 2011, at a $9.95 cover price) will pan out, I certainly love the cover treatmeant, and predict that it will score magnificantly as well.