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Yearbook 2021-22
Become an overnight expert with THN's annual Yearbook! It's 180 pages packed with previews, features and stats. We've got stories on Carey Price, Sebastian Aho, Jakob Chychrun; plus our Top 50 players list, and our staple four-page previews for each of the 32 NHL teams, including positional analysis, predictions, depth charts, stats and Future Watch.
Jakob’s Ladder
From the time he was a teenager, Jakob Chychrun hasn’t looked like he was actually born so much as he was photoshopped, or at least manufactured in some high-performance sports laboratory. When he was playing midget hockey in Toronto and living with Victor Mete’s family, Chychrun could have walked into any NHL dressing room among the fittest, most meticulously sculpted athletes in the world and not looked out of place. His coach at the time warned whatever junior team that drafted him – it turned out to be the OHL’s Sarnia Sting, at first overall – that it better have a massive stick budget, because this kid was going to be breaking a lot of ’em. Seven years later and five years deep into his NHL career with the Arizona Coyotes,…
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
FUELLED BY SOME BIG off-season deals, the Blackhawks have accelerated their roster rebuild. GM Stan Bowman quickened his club’s timetable by acquiring elite defenseman Seth Jones, Vezina Trophy winner Marc-Andre Fleury and other experienced players. And along with a bunch of promising youngsters, the Blackhawks still have a premier offensive talent in Patrick Kane and, hopefully, a healthy Jonathan Toews. Chicago had a surprisingly strong start to 2020-21. Prospects at all positions produced nicely before fading in the spring and leaving the Blackhawks short of the playoffs. Most of those kids will be back and a year better. The plan is for them to improve under less pressure and gel around key veterans to form the foundation of an entertaining team that should be good enough to challenge for the post-season.…
PITTSBURGH PENGUINS
AT THREE YEARS RUNNING, bowing out of the post-season without a series win is getting a bit old – and highly concerning. Especially with star core players Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang hitting their mid-30s, and Malkin out for an undetermined chunk of 2021-22 after knee surgery. So the question is whether the new brain trust – GM Ron Hextall and president of hockey operations Brian Burke came in after Jim Rutherford abruptly resigned as GM early last season – can guide Pittsburgh back to some semblance of glory after winning the Stanley Cup three times during the Crosby era, most recently in 2017. Or at least get the Penguins back to the playoffs for the 16th straight season. Pittsburgh won the East Division under COVID-19 realignment last season…
Top 50 PLAYERS IN THE NHL
1. CONNOR MCDAVID C • Edmonton Oilers Just when you thought he couldn’t surprise us anymore, Connor McDavid went out and had himself a season for the ages. In leading the Oilers to second place in the North Division, McDavid set the league on fire with 105 points in 56 games. His 1.88 points per game were the most of any NHLer in the past 10 years, and hitting 100 in the shortened season was seen as an incredible feat – even though the Oilers captain was preoccupied with other concerns most of the time. “There was a stretch there going in and out of COVID breaks and we kind of got stalled a bit, so it was tough to think about,” McDavid said. “As we got back in the swing of things…
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