THN Future Watch 2025
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Last year's FW was listed as a February 26th release date. As a digital subscriber, it looks like I got access on March 11. Brian Costello will usually leave some bread crumbs on his Twitter accounts when prospects start getting traded at the deadline.
Although I wish they would release this one a little earlier. Just a personal pet peeve when I finally get to read it and several prospects have already moved. It's far from perfect, but probably my favorite issue of the year.
Although I wish they would release this one a little earlier. Just a personal pet peeve when I finally get to read it and several prospects have already moved. It's far from perfect, but probably my favorite issue of the year.
I still remember the arguments over people who had it vs. it arriving at newsstands. That was what... 18 years ago here?
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I still like it. Because I believe they try to talk to some team contacts when making their top-10 lists per team. I don't care one bit about the overall whole-league rankings or top-100 or whatever. But sometimes it's interesting to see which players some teams seem to hold out some little nugget of extra hope for near the bottom of the team-by-team top-10's. 
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THN publisher couldn't bear putting Demidov -- a Russian -- on the cover.
I still like it. Because I believe they try to talk to some team contacts when making their top-10 lists per team. I don't care one bit about the overall whole-league rankings or top-100 or whatever. But sometimes it's interesting to see which players some teams seem to hold out some little nugget of extra hope for near the bottom of the team-by-team top-10's.
I remember whoever was in charge of writing the Islanders blurbs back in the day said years later that the team omitted Kevin Poulin and Casey Cizikas from the top 10 list because they hadn't signed yet. So they didn't want to deal with a (very minor) PR hit if contract talks stalled and they re-entered the draft. But privately the Islanders definitely counted them among their top 10 prospects. After they signed they suddenly appeared the following year on the team submitted top 10; Poulin was unranked in 2010 to being #3 in 2011 after he signed.
They print it here where I work. I have my copy sitting in front of me right now.
Good to hear. Not a fan of the E-version, i like to have a hard copy.
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We're not going to let folks crowdsource the entire list bit by bit and team by team.
Please don't violate copyright law, folks.
Usually when there are deadline week trades, Ryan Kennedy or Brian Costello will mention where the traded prospects were listed. Still wish they would release this issue a few weeks before the trade deadline. The digital version may come out after the deadline and various prospects will have already been dealt by the time I get a chance to read it.
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We're not going to get into an argument over this, but here's the fair use regulation:
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index
The goal of the Index is to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody).
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"Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" is the most relevant part here.
I'm not a lawyer, but you aren't either. When you signed up for the site, you agreed to abide by not posting "large portions of ANY article. The reader must have incentive to visit the source."
We're the ones responsible for enforcing that, and we're not going to allow people to collectively crowdsource a "large portion" of this material.
How do you know?We're not going to get into an argument over this, but here's the fair use regulation:
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index
The goal of the Index is to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody).
"Effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work" is the most relevant part here.
I'm not a lawyer, but you aren't either. When you signed up for the site, you agreed to abide by not posting "large portions of ANY article. The reader must have incentive to visit the source."
We're the ones responsible for enforcing that, and we're not going to allow people to collectively crowdsource a "large portion" of this material.
Totally get it. I'm not saying we post the full list, but top 10 seems reasonable. I don't think anyone would say 10% is a large portion.
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Totally get it. I'm not saying we post the full list, but top 10 seems reasonable. I don't think anyone would say 10% is a large portion.
Top 10 overall is fine. Top ten for each team? Too much.
I'd also love to have more lawyers here - if you want to send a note to [email protected], we're happy to vet you.
I still have fond memories of making a trek to Tower Records to pick up the Future Watch / Draft Preview issues back when there wasn't much online content about prospects.
Unrelated but Tower Records still exists in Japan. It was like walking into a time machine when I went.
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