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Yearbook 2018-19
It's THN's annual Yearbook! 188 pages packed with previews, features, stats and everything else you need to know for the 2018-19 season. We've got stories on Doughty, Giroux, Fleury, Hellebuyck and many more; our Top 50 players list; and, of course, four-page previews for each of the 31 NHL teams, including positional analysis, predictions, depth charts, stats and future watch.
HIDDEN TREASURES
SOME THINGS CAN’T BE explained. The rock band Toto sells out massive stadiums in Europe but can’t get arrested in their own country. David Hasselhoff is big in Germany. Jerry Lewis was seen as a buffoon in the U.S. but a creative genius in France. People in Newfoundland actually love bologna. Some things catch on, others don’t. Those that do not often remain local gems, loved by a select group of people, while being relatively ignored outside the limited number of devotees. It’s the same for hockey players. Some choose to call them underrated, which they are outside the markets in which they play. But to those who watch them game-in and game-out, they’re treasures. Here are 10 of those players, listed in alphabetical order, with the hope 2018-19 will be the…
CALGARY FLAMES
ONE POSSIBLE RESPONSE to a disappointing 2017-18 season: accept it, move forward and rely on the club’s experience to facilitate a rebound. Another possible response: make sweeping changes. Calgary’s brass chose the latter – and used gas for accelerant before lighting the pyre. Jettisoned were coach Glen Gulutzan, top-scoring defenseman Dougie Hamilton, 21-goal scorer Micheal Ferland and a bevy of supporting players. After hiring Bill Peters to run the bench, GM Brad Treliving – no longer reporting to Brian Burke after the president of hockey operations and the team parted ways – traded for burgeoning defenseman Noah Hanifin and center/winger Elias Lindholm and then signed power winger James Neal as well as depth forwards Derek Ryan and Austin Czarnik. The group is deeper up front and the back end has a…
DOUGHTY DOUBLES DOWN ON KINGS
DREW DOUGHTY IS HAPPY. Over the moon, really. And who can blame him? It’s a perfect Canada Day in London, Ont., bright and sunny with a slight breeze and the odd cloud when he arrives home. He’s just getting back from the wedding of Philadelphia Flyers right winger Wayne Simmonds, who will return the favor in a few weeks’ time as one of Doughty’s best men when he ties the knot himself. And when Doughty and his bride-to-be, Nicole, jet back to Los Angeles, they’ll be putting down roots in a new home he’s having built. Indeed, everything is coming up Doughty, including a freshly inked pact to remain with the only NHL franchise he’s ever known. Though made official July 1, Los Angeles announced days earlier Doughty had agreed to…
THE PEG’S PERFECTIONIST
IT WAS ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO that Chuck Hellebuyck had his eyes opened to the way his son’s mind functioned. Chuck was standing inside the pro shop of a Michigan rink, one of the many he frequented while carting around two hockey-mad sons, when a gaggle of grade-school boys flocked to the stick rack. While the other boys were going gaga over the one-piece player sticks with their three-figure price tags, Chuck’s little goaltender was calmly picking up twig after twig, looking at all the blades, eyeing them down the sides and the front, inspecting and examining each one with precision. Chuck was perplexed. “What are you looking at this for?” he said to his son. “You’re a goalie. Go look at the goalie sticks.” Undeterred, Connor picked up a yellow stick…
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