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Yearbook 2024-25
We've taken all the elements from our summer annuals to create a supersized, one-stop-shop, 228-page magazine that gives you all you need to know for the 2024-25 NHL season. In Yearbook + Fantasy Guide, you'll find team previews, predictions and features. We have four pages of analysis on each of the 32 NHL teams, plus our yearly Top 50 NHLers list and features on Connor McDavid, Auston Matthews, Cale Makar, Victor Hedman, Mark Scheifele and more. For the fantasy hockey players, you get projections for 850-plus skaters and goalies, full organizational rosters, our Points-O-Meter for each team, depth charts, Future Watch and our skater and goalie checklists.
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
BY MATT CARLSON PREDICTION | 8TH IN CENTRAL DESPITE THE ARRIVAL OF Connor Bedard, the 2023-24 season was a painful one in Chicago. The 18-year-old No. 1 overall pick in 2023 and eventual Calder Trophy winner delivered 22 goals and 61 points – along with some memorable plays – in 68 games. But the Blackhawks were thin on talent to begin with, then decimated by injuries. Taylor Hall, acquired to skate on Bedard’s wing, had season-ending ACL surgery in November, and it got worse from there. Even Bedard wasn’t exempt, missing 14 games with a broken jaw. The Hawks finished 31st with a 23-53-6 record. The loss total set a franchise record. Chicago’s 178 goals were fewest in the NHL. On the bright side, Chicago has plenty of terrific prospects, especially on defense.…
GLOBAL GOALS
WITH HIS preternatural goal-scoring ability and constantly evolving two-way game, Auston Matthews is one of the deadliest hockey players in the world. But since playing with the elite kids of Team North America at the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, he hasn’t had the chance to show what he’s capable of on the international stage. Since the past two Olympics did not feature NHLers, the Toronto Maple Leafs center has been on the sidelines, just like the rest of his superstar friends. In fact, the last time Matthews wore a Team USA jersey was back in 2016 when, as a teenager on the precipice of being drafted first overall by the Leafs, he played for the Americans at the World Championship. He also suited up for the U.S. earlier that year…
PERFETTI-RANTANEN
>PROJECTION: 50 WINNIPEG POS C AGE 22 2023-24 STATS 71-19-19-38-12 GP 78 G 23 A 27 COLE PERFETTI CAP HIT: RFA It’s hard to be patient with first-rounders, but it’s coming for the 22-year-old. Soon. >PROJECTION: 93 VANCOUVER POS C AGE 25 2023-24 STATS 82-34-55-89-12 GP 80 G 35 A 58 ELIAS PETTERSSON CAP HIT: $11,600,000 You hear about his one bad playoff more than his past two great regular seasons. >PROJECTION: 33 WINNIPEG POS D AGE 29 2023-24 STATS 82-5-28-33-63 GP 81 G 7 A 26 NEAL PIONK CAP HIT: $5,875,000 Between 32 and 34 points for the past four seasons looks suspiciously like a pattern. >PROJECTION: 38 BOSTON POS C AGE 20 2023-24 STATS 33-5-10-15-6 GP 74 G 13 A 25 MATTHEW POITRAS CAP HIT: $870,000 Had some good rookie moments before losing second half to should surgery. >PROJECTION: 56 BUFFALO POS RW AGE 23 2023-24 STATS 27-9-10-19-8 GP 75 G 25 A 31 JACK QUINN CAP HIT: $863,334 Missed much of 2023-24 with Achilles surgery. Top-six winger looked good otherwise. >PROJECTION: 49 OTTAWA POS…
2024-25 NHL SCHEDULE
UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS There were still many players who had yet to sign NHL contracts by our press time in early August. Here are the most prominent ones…
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