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Yearbook 2023-24
Our annual Yearbook is packed with previews, predictions and features for the upcoming NHL season. We have four pages of analysis on each team, plus our yearly Top 50 NHLers list and in-depth features on Jason Robertson, Matthew Tkachuk, Jack Hughes, Jacob Markstrom, and many more.
RISE AND SHINE
JUST THINK, THERE’S ONLY one more season more worth of sleeps until the salary cap finally spikes again. Or at least that’s the expectation. If all goes according to plan, the 2023-24 season will be the last one in which the NHL essentially has a flat cap. With league revenues soaring, the players are close to paying back their debt from the truncated pandemic seasons, fuelling speculation the ceiling will go up as much as $12 million in the next three seasons. In fact, when hockey related revenues from the past couple of seasons are totalled up, the balance might actually be paid in full before the Vegas Golden Knights kick off the season by raising their Stanley Cup banner at their Oct. 10 home-opener. Speaking of the Golden Knights, they’re…
CAROLINA HURRICANES
PREDICTION | 1ST IN METROPOLITAN AFTER ONE OF THE strangest sweeps possible in the Eastern Conference final – four losses by one goal each, including one in a single overtime and one in quadruple overtime – Carolina went into the off-season undeterred and with a clear mandate: run it back. Goalies Frederik Andersen and Antti Raanta were both re-signed. Captain Jordan Staal signed a four-year deal. One of the league’s best D-corps managed to get even better with the UFA signings of Dmitry Orlov and the re-addition of Tony DeAngelo. And the Hurricanes added some much-needed sandpaper on the wings to what was the NHL’s second-best regular-season team, with free agents Michael Bunting and Brendan Lemieux. Carolina is clearly a Stanley Cup favorite. >OFFENSE It’s hard to match the Hurricanes when it comes to…
MINNESOTA WILD
PREDICTION | 3RD IN CENTRAL MAKING THE PLAYOFFS hasn’t been an issue for the Wild, but advancing past the first round? That’s another story. Minnesota hasn’t won a series since 2015, a drought that’s persisted despite the team continuing to finish near the top of the Central Division. Last season, the third-seeded Wild were knocked out by second-place Dallas in six games. This won’t be a new challenge for much of the incoming lineup. With most of their roster under contract and nearly $15 million tied up in the Zach Parise and Ryan Suter buyouts, the Wild didn’t make many additions. Actually, they had more departures than arrivals: almost all of last season’s trade pickups are gone, and there was no room in the budget to re-sign longtime defenseman Matt Dumba. As…
SAN JOSE SHARKS
PREDICTION | 8TH IN PACIFIC SAN JOSE FINISHED LAST season with a 22-44-16 record for a .366 points percentage – the franchise’s worst since 1995-96. So, have the Sharks totally bottomed out, or is there yet another long, losing season looming on the horizon? At the very least, it will be difficult for the Sharks to end a playoff drought that’s now reached four years as GM Mike Grier keeps his eye on the long term. Still, he and coach David Quinn – both in their second seasons with the team – want to see progress from one year to the next. Grier says “there’s more work to come,” and while the post-season is unrealistic this year, the goal is for the Sharks to play a fast-paced, in-your-face style while laying the…
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