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Future Watch 2021
The Hockey News' annual Future Watch edition – now 100 pages! – has all the staples of our popular prospect issue: the 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 Ottawa Senators, Trevor Zegras, Quinton Byfield, Spencer Knight and much more.
BEST CLASS OF ALL-TIME?
THE FUTURE WATCH PROSPECT class from five years ago may go down as the strongest in NHL history. The 2003 draft class is often regarded as the best, but this 2016 prospect group, which includes many 2015 draftees, boasts some of the NHL’s top current and future talent. Headlined by forwards Mitch Marner, Mikko Rantanen, Sebastian Aho, Mathew Barzal and Brayden Point, this group has produced many franchise-altering players. And this list doesn’t even include those who made the immediate leap to the NHL, like Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews and Nico Hischier, as they bypassed the Future Watch rankings at the time. The 2016 list includes more than top-notch forwards, though, as blueliners Thomas Chabot, Zach Werenski, Shea Theodore and Ivan Provorov made the grade. Rounded out by two-time Stanley Cup…
STAYING STATESIDE MAKING CHANGE
IT’S TRIVIA TIME WITH Chloe Aurard, and she has to pause for a second to think. The question she’s pondering is one of college scoring supremacy: who is the highest-scoring French-born player in NCAA history? She knows who the highest-scoring women’s player is. It’s a record Aurard has held since scoring her first goal in her first game at Northeastern University, one of 49 she’s scored in her 98-game NCAA career. But among the more than dozen French nationals to play college hockey stateside, she’s not sure who sits atop the all-time scoring list, though she’s willing to take a stab at it. “I don’t know,” Aurard admits, “but I want to say me.” Good guess. The right one, too. Though she did so with little fanfare, Aurard became France’s all-time greatest NCAA…
Carolina Hurricanes
B | Rank: 13th WITH EIGHT PLAYERS ALREADY on the roster 24 or younger and another four homegrown NHL players that age shipped elsewhere in trades the past two seasons, the Carolina system is a bit of a victim of its own success. After that period of productivity, there’s some regrouping and restocking going on. While the pace of players making the jump to the NHL is sure to slow down, there are still a few forwards knocking on the door. The team believes it got a cornerstone player in Seth Jarvis in the 2020 first round, and Jack Drury has made quick progress since leaving Harvard for Sweden. 1. SETH JARVIS C, 19, 5-10, 172Portland (WHL) 6–2–2–4–0Chicago (AHL) 9–7–4–11–42020 draft, 13th overall OVERALL 16 The Hurricanes were thrilled when Jarvis was available at No.…
Buffalo Sabres
B+ | Rank: 9th THE SABRES’ INSTABILITY has created a unique group of prospects. Kevyn Adams, Jason Botterill and Tim Murray have all served as GM over the past four years, so three regimes have had a hand in assembling the current pipeline. When Adams selected Jack Quinn eighth overall in 2020, it marked the first time the Sabres had picked an OHL player since 2016, Murray’s last draft. Botterill never selected a player from the OHL. In his three drafts, he took just one player from major junior – Dylan Cozens. Botterill preferred NCAA and European prospects because the Sabres had more time to evaluate them. 1. JACK QUINN RW, 19, 6-0, 176Rochester (AHL)8–1–3–4–82020 draft, 8th overall OVERALL 23 With the OHL season paused, Quinn has spent much of the year in the AHL…
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