You have reached a degraded version of ESPN.com because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer. For a complete ESPN.com experience, please upgrade or use a Greg Wyshynski, ESPN 437d Ranking the top 10 hockey people of 2017, If the hockey year of 2017 was anything, it was. We had back-to-back Stanley Cup champions for the first time in 19 years. We had the frequent (and unavoidable) entanglements between hockey and politics, both domestic and international. We had players who inspired us -- and players who inspired backlash.
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Here are the 10 best hockey people of 2017, give or take a few. In selecting them, we were looking for a full picture of the sport over the past year, both on the ice and off -- individuals who contributed not only to the news of the day, but whose contributions might linger in our memories long after the book is closed on 2017.
Please leave your feedback, and any alternative nominations, in the comments. James Mirtle If you're a puckhead, you've felt the tremors from the shifts in the hockey media landscape over the past year. Perhaps registering highest on the seismograph: the emergence of The Athletic, the subscription-based digital media site that has used hockey coverage as the foundation to try to cultivate a large audience. (But honestly, who makes you pay for great exclusive hockey coverage, right?) Mirtle jumped from the Toronto Globe & Mail to the startup as its NHL editor-in-chief and helped assemble an impressive collection of writers behind his paywalls, from columnists like our old friend Pierre LeBrun to beat writers like Michael Russo of the Star Tribune to analytics acolytes like Tyler Dellow of the hockey blogosphere, where Mirtle was a founding father. Like any media venture, The Athletic has its champions and its critics, its optimists and its pessimists (and more than a few enemies in the print world). What can't be debated is how many hockey media names it has attracted in a short span, which is a credit to Mirtle's relationships and respect. Subban Subban remained the NHL's most consistent lightning rod and its preeminent marketing guru.
Who else, in a postseason run to the Stanley Cup Final, was singled out as a 'clown' by NBC Sports' Mike Milbury and invented a diversionary 'controversy' about halitosis involving his opponents' best player, to the point where he was bringing bottles of Listerine to the rink? Who else got his own 'E:60' segment and his own groovy trailer for signing with Adidas? There's nobody like him. Welcome to #teamadidas, @PKSubban1.
Mitsubishi gx works 2. Pic.twitter.com/3ijEHiCZu2 - adidas Hockey (@adidashockey) December 18, 2017 Oh, and he's a pretty great defenseman too, as Subban earned accolades for playing a shutdown role in the Nashville Predators' first Western Conference championship in franchise history, a performance certainly worth its weight in tossed catfish. Steve Mayer The NHL's yearlong centennial celebration was a group effort, with years of planning and weekly meetings that generated ideas like the 'NHL 100' greatest players list and its traveling road show of trophies and jerseys that visited dozens of cities.
With a stick-tap to Gary Meagher, NHL vice president of communications and a driving force in the centennial planning, we'll give the nod here to Mayer, the league's executive vice president and executive producer for programming and creative development. Among other parts of the centennial, Mayer helped create the massive, star-studded party around the NHL All-Star Game in Los Angeles, as well as successful Stanley Cup and centennial documentaries. You get only one crack at a centennial celebration, and Mayer helped create a memorable one, as the NHL did what it does best: marinate in its own nostalgia while gazing at its navel. Brian Boyle Boyle has earned his reputation as one of the NHL's most emotionally engaging players through 11 years, someone who's able to change the feeling on the bench and in the crowd with a single shift.