Honestly?
Hockey's Future considers itself a online hockey magazine. Our primary focus is writing articles, giving updates and so on, providing coverage of the future NHL players in that form. Yes, we do also feature player profiles, but we don't consider ourselves a scouting website like some of the others available on the Internet.
Yes, there are many profiles that are grievously out of date (god help the Ducks page), but we are working toward addressing those issues while continuing to provide fresh new articles on a daily basis. We're aware that there are some things out of date, this isn't news. We're not TSN, we're not the Globe and Mail and we're not full time HF writers. Our resources simply aren't as vast and far-reaching as some larger media counterparts. Are we stretched thin? Perhaps. We don't have the largest base of writers and all of our writers do this in their spare time. Just looking through the site, there's plenty of team pages with "Apply Today" listed as the team writer. When our staffing numbers are low, the rest of the staff picks up the slack. So we have our Phoenix writer maybe also cover an LA article and so on. This redistribution of time and work often means some things get put to the side. Profiles and stats are the easiest thing to set aside, because, again, we're in the business of writing articles on hockey prospects.
Now onto the good news, over the past three months, there has been work going on behind the scenes at Hockey's Future, installing a new back-end to streamline the article submission process, organizing staff tasks and so on. Janine Pilkington and myself have been hired on as Conference Coordinators (Eastern and Western, respectively) to try to pool the resources we do have to make sure we have up-to-date coverage of all 30 teams, as well as the various leagues and countries. This does include profiles and stats. We've also have a very exciting and interesting thread going on at the staff board discussing things we want to add to the site, different articles and stories we want to cover and how to continue to grow and stay fresh. Hopefully, we'll get a few more writers who can help fill our gaps, can contribute and can dedicate the time and commitment to stick around for more than an article or two. Not everyone can. I don't blame them. Hell, I have a hard time meeting most of my deadlines.
But quite frankly, keeping up to date stats aren't the top priority. If you want to know how many goals Jonathan Toews scored last season, there are numerous places to read about it. If you want to hear what Patrick Thoresen thought of his first year in the NHL with the pressure of his home country on his back, come to Hockey's Future. That's what we cover. The prospects, not the numbers.