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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.
ST. LOUIS BLUES
ON DEC. 11, the Blues were tied with Tampa Bay atop the NHL standings. Just four months later, they fell to Colorado on the final day of the regular season and missed the playoffs by a single point. With 44 points in the first 31 games and just 50 in the final 51, the tailspin was sharp but not unforeseen. The offense couldn’t overcome an injury to Jaden Schwartz, the power play never found traction, and the lack of scoring didn’t help Jake Allen, whose inconsistent play in net compounded the other issues. Blues GM Doug Armstrong addressed the team’s offensive shortcomings in the off-season, trading for Buffalo’s Ryan O’Reilly and signing Toronto’s Tyler Bozak, Vegas’ David Perron and New Jersey’s Patrick Maroon. The lingering concern is in the crease: with…
OTTAWA SENATORS
WILL ERIK KARLSSON stay, or will he go? That was the off-season question facing the Senators, as they look to rebound from a nightmarish season that saw them plunge to 30th. The club was ready to deal their captain in the days surrounding free agency, but Karlsson was still a Senator weeks into the summer, after reportedly turning down an eight-year, $80-million contract extension. GM Pierre Dorion was reticent to call this a rebuild, but a Karlsson swap makes it difficult to avoid the label. The status quo couldn’t remain. Dorion called the dressing room “broken,” after an ugly scandal emerged that saw Karlsson’s wife, Melinda, accuse now-exiled left winger Mike Hoffman’s fiancee, Monika Caryk, of cyber-bullying and harassment – a charge she has vehemently denied. It was a memorable year for the…
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
ON THE DAY Mike Babcock was hired as the Leafs’ new coach, he prophesized: “There’s pain comin’.” Three years later, his team held a 4-3 lead in Game 7 of its first-round series against Boston but lost 7-4. On that same day he was introduced in 2015, Babcock also declared that once the club had built a “safe” environment, stars from Ontario would come home. On July 1, John Tavares cemented Babcock as a prognosticator, signing a seven-year, $77-million deal with Toronto. While Tavares’ Toronto ties were part of the equation, the 27-year-old franchise center cited Toronto’s crop of young stars as the deciding factor that prompted him to leave the New York Islanders. New GM Kyle Dubas couldn’t resist adding Tavares’ firepower to an already elite forward core, but the…
QUENCHING CANADA’S THIRST
THE LAST TIME A Canadian team won the Stanley Cup, it was the exact same day as the debut of Jurassic Park. Just so we’re clear, that’s the movie, not the real park where dinosaurs ran freely and ate eucalyptus, because c’mon, eh, it hasn’t been that long. It just seems that way. A quarter century has passed since the Montreal Canadiens rode 10 overtime wins and a Marty McSorley illegal stick penalty to the Stanley Cup in 1993. Since then, the Cup has been handed out 24 times to 13 different franchises, five of them south of the Mason-Dixon Line and none of them north of the 49th parallel. The best players in the world have been locked out by their employer three times, and four players – Peter Forsberg,…
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