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Future Watch 2019
THN’s Future Watch 2019 has all the staples of our popular annual prospect-blowout edition: our Top 100 list, Top 10s and team grades for every franchise, and Sneak Peeks at the next three NHL drafts. Also in the issue, we have features on the future of goalie development, Cale Makar, Cody Glass, Filip Zadina, the New York Rangers, and much more.
Money & Power Privileges of Membership
Dear readers, If you’re a subscriber to the print version of The Hockey News, you’ve probably already received your renewal forms in the mail. In them, you’ll find that if you re-up, you’ll be automatically upgraded to the Silver Membership level where, in addition to the print issues that you have been receiving, you’ll also get the digital versions and All-Access to the Membership area at TheHockeyNews.com. We’ve also offered you the opportunity to upgrade to the Gold Membership level, which gets you everything in Silver plus all the Special Issues we produce. Among those premium editions are the Fantasy Pool Guide and Money and Power issues, publications that don’t come with the Silver Membership. The positive feedback I have received from the 2019 Money and Power issue has been overwhelming. Here are…
THE MANHATTAN PROJECT
IT’S SCARY TO STARE mediocrity in the face. Once you realize you inhabit a grey space between success and failure, you can’t block it out. Imagine feeling that in the pit of your stomach as a GM in the winter of 2018, when the blueprint for winning in the NHL was to be astoundingly bad, then astoundingly good. Eight of the previous nine Stanley Cups belonged to the Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks and Los Angeles Kings. They tanked, loaded up on top-notch draft picks and constructed towering championship squads, riding top-heavy rosters of highly paid stars. And the cycle was continuing. The Buffalo Sabres were in the process of rappelling down the standings to eventually draft breathtakingly talented defenseman Rasmus Dahlin first overall, while two former laughingstocks, the Toronto Maple Leafs…
ON TOP OF THE WORLD
THE WORLD JUNIOR Championship is the big stage, where recent first-round picks often play starring roles for their respective countries while NHL fans get an exciting glimpse of “what could be” in the near future for their favorite teams. This year, however, wasn’t quite like that. Detroit’s 2018 first-rounders Filip Zadina and Joe Veleno combined for only three assists at the WJC, while the New York Islanders’ top prospect, Noah Dobson, was limited to a single goal. Instead, it was players taken later in the draft who stole the show. Chicago’s 2018 fourth-rounder Philipp Kurashev tallied six goals in seven games for Switzerland. Columbus pick Emil Bemstrom, a fourth-rounder in 2017, had six points for Sweden. And Washington’s 2018 second-round pick Martin Fehervary was a point-per-game defenseman for Slovakia. None of…
WINNIPEG JETS: FINDING BALANCE
B–/RANK 18 TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN THE AHL is of paramount importance for the long-term success of NHL organizations. But AHL clubs have to balance their roles in developing the next generation with winning games in the present. “You learn to keep the line in the sand as close as you can to the middle,” said Winnipeg Jets assistant GM/Manitoba Moose GM Craig Heisinger. “Development and winning, to a certain degree, they go hand in hand, but guys still have to play. If your team wins but your young players don’t play, they don’t develop.” So far so good, as the Moose continue to groom high-end young talent for the contending Jets. 5-YEAR TREND 1. KRISTIAN VESALAINEN RW, 19, 6-3, 207Jokerit (KHL)31–6–11–17–02017 draft, 24th overallOVERALL 32 Vesalainen was a camp surprise and had his NHL arrival…
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