Im not really a GM/Franchise mode guy but found this to be interesting
(Theres a bunch of other info here as well)
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.polygon.com/platform/amp/2018/6/20/17446816/nhl-19-release-date-preview-ea-sports-ps4-xbox-one
In NHL 19, you’ll have a separate scouting budget, and will have to hire and fire scouts with an eye on their regional specializations. For instance, one may be an expert in Russia and Scandinavia but may have a mediocre awareness of players elsewhere. Scouts will return detailed reports with graded attributes and text descriptions, and there’s a fog-of-war element: Any players to whom you don’t assign a scout will be blind spots, with no hints of their abilities. And if you draft someone you haven’t scouted, you still won’t see their ratings until they play a few games somewhere in your organization.