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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.
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
PREDICTION | 8TH IN CENTRAL THE VIBE AROUND THE downtrodden Blackhawks changed with the flip of a card on May 8. That’s the day we learned Chicago had won the No. 1 pick in the 2023 NHL draft. GM Kyle Davidson didn’t mention generational talent Connor Bedard for the next seven weeks, but that’s whose name he called at the draft in Nashville on June 28. Bedard, who led the CHL in scoring last season, walked to the stage and pulled on a red, No. 98 Blackhawks jersey. Then, at Chicago’s development camp, the center stressed he just wanted to “make the team” and “be one of the guys” come September. The kid from North Vancouver, B.C., should do just that. Bedard provides a foundation for – and hastens – Chicago’s rebuild.…
VANCOUVER CANUCKS
PREDICTION | 6TH IN PACIFIC THERE WAS GOING TO be a rebuild to prop up a back end that wasn’t structurally sound. However, the extreme extent to which the Canucks addressed their defensive deficiencies was like taking a house down to the studs. When, for the seventh time in eight years, Vancouver failed to make the playoffs, it was demolition time. Quinn Hughes and Tucker Poolman are the lone remaining members of Vancouver’s D-corps from opening night last season (although it should be noted Tyler Myers was on IR at the time). Oliver Ekman-Larsson was bought out and went to Florida as a UFA. Luke Schenn and Riley Stillman were traded at the deadline (to Toronto and Buffalo, respectively). Kyle Burroughs left for San Jose in free agency, and even Poolman remains…
FLORIDA PANTHERS
PREDICTION | 6TH IN ATLANTIC ALEKSANDER BARKOV MAY wear the ‘C’ in Florida, but the Panthers are Matthew Tkachuk’s team now. The 25-year-old firebrand delivered on every level in his debut season with the Cats, from an All-Star Game MVP on home ice to sparking a magical playoff run. His style of play gave the Panthers a new on-ice identity, which carried the league’s 17th-best regular-season team past three of the NHL’s top five clubs en route to the Stanley Cup final. But injuries took a toll in the Cup loss to Vegas, and the aftermath of a gritty charge will bleed into this season. While Tkachuk, who sustained a broken sternum during the final, should be healthy in time for the opener, Florida will start the year without top defensemen Aaron…
WINNIPEG JETS
PREDICTION | 4TH IN CENTRAL THAT THE JETS HAVE been bounced in four of the past six post-seasons by four Stanley Cup finalists – and two champions – might suggest they remain well-positioned to contend. The fact is, though, Winnipeg is barely clinging to its steadily declining place in the Central Division hierarchy. The continued departures of centerpiece talents, most of whom have asked out, continued this off-season, and the Jets are beginning to feel like an organization primed to suffer a precipitous decline in the not-too-distant future. Winnipeg GM Kevin Cheveldayoff has consistently found ways to keep his club in the mix, though the Jets enter this season shrouded in uncertainty about the long-term future of key figures. That has been the norm in Winnipeg for several years now, and one…
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