The Hockey

THN   publishes 34 regular issues and seven special magazines per year - the Season Opener, People of Power and Influence, Future Watch, Draft Preview, Season in Review, the Best of Everything in Hockey, and the Yearbook, listed as the top-selling hockey annual in North America. It is available through subscription in North America and Europe and digitally to the rest of the world. THN is also available at many newsstands in North America. The magazine principally covers the National Hockey League NHL, relying on local beat writers to cover each team. Smaller sections in the regular issues cover minor league, junior, college, and international hockey.In 1997, The Hockey News commemorated their 50th anniversary with a list of the 50 top NHL players of all-time. The rankings, which heralded Wayne Gretzky as the best player in the history of the NHL, were determined by a panel of judges that included past and present NHL general managers, coaches, and players, as well some of the most eminent members of hockey media. The following year, THN expanded the list and published it as a book: The Top 100 NHL players of All-Time. Their list again featured Gretzky as the top player. The top ten players, in order, were: Wayne Gretzky, Bobby Orr, Gordie Howe, Mario Lemieux, Maurice Richard, Doug Harvey, Jean Beliveau, Bobby Hull, Terry Sawchuk and Eddie Shore.

Ten years later, in 2007, THN came out with a list of revised list in The Top 60 since 1967, which limited the rankings to players solely of the NHL's post-expansion era. In addition to accounting for the ten years that had passed since previous rankings, editor-in-chief Jason Kay explained that the list was revised to exclude the pre-expansion era due to the fact that most analysts are not able to put the early NHL into sufficient context, adding that the original Top 50 publication "relied heavily on historical and statistical information to bring players of bygone eras into perspective."In 2008, the THN staff participated in the selection of the IIHF Centennial All-Star Team.In 2010, THN released a revised list of the top 100 players of all time, except this time it was top 20 players per position.Editor in Chief - Jason Kay; Senior Special Sections Editor - Brian Costello; Senior Writer - Ken Campbell; Associate Senior Writer - Ryan Kennedy; Writer/Columnist - Adam Proteau; Managing Editor - Edward Fraser; Copy Editor - Ronnie Shuker; Senior Associate Art Director - Erika Vanderveer; Web Editor - Rory Boylen; Video Producer - Ted Cooper.People who have held the Editor in Chief position in the past include TSN broadcaster Bob McKenzie no relation to the founder and TSN producer Steve Dryden.