GM: Michael Sauer (third GM in team’s history) Coach: Bob Hartley (Replaces Claude Noel) Last season: 24th overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: James Van Riemsdyk (trade), Jakub Petruzalek (trade), Shane Doan (trade), Anton Babchuk (trade), Corey Potter (trade), Zach Boychuk (waived), T.J. Brodie (trade), Jonas Hiller…
GM: Geoffrey Paul (second GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock Last season: 21st overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Pavel Datsyuk (free agent, Stockholm), Pierre-Marc Bouchard (waived, Edinburgh), Mason Raymond (FA, Copenhagen), Derek Morris (free agent), Marek Zidlicky (retired) In: Daniel Sedin (free agent, from Oslo), Marc-Andre Bergeron (FA, Helsinki), Mark Arcobello (FA),…
GM: Axel Bode (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Patick Roy (replaces Dave Tippett) Last season: 23rd overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Tom Gilbert (free agent), Riley Nash (waivers) In: Torey Krug (draft), Matt Nieto (draft), Tomas Jurco (draft) In Place (Key players signed past Season 4) Ryan Getzlaf, C;…
GM: Chris Lee (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Claude Julien (replaces Peter Laviolette) Last season: 21st overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Ryan Suter (trade), Jason Chimera (retired), DustinPenner (retired) In: Eric Gelinas (trade), Morgan Rielly (trade), Marc-Andre Gragnani (free agent from Munich), Tomas Hertl (draft), Calvin de Haan (draft), J.T. Brown (draft) In…
From Thursday’s games: Brent Seabrook. Bern, has played 2 great games so far. If the season ends Sunday, he will be MVP. He led the Bears over Stockholm 4-2 with 3 assists, 4 hits and 2 blocked shots. Bern’s fourth line of Drew Miller, Lance Bouma and Steve Bernier was plus 2 but played only…
GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates Last season: 3rd overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Kris Versteeg (traded), Ryan Wilson (traded), Nate Thompson (free agent, Moscow) In: Ville Peltonen (free agent, from Copenhagen), Leon Draisaitl (draft), David Pastrnak (draft), Carl Soderburg (draft) In Place (Key players…
3 Stand-outs Brent Seabrook, Bern, scored a goal, had 2 assists, 5 hits and was +3 in a 5-3 win in Dublin. Cam Ward, Athens, stopped 39 Edinburgh shots in a 2-0 win. Kari Lehtonen, Geneva, stopped 32 Berlin shots in a 3-0 win in Germany Surprises and Stuff A scoreless tie was highly unexpected…
GM: Michael Banker (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 4th overall, EURO Cup champions Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Chris Higgins (free agent, Frankfurt), Derek Roy (FA, Milan), Alexei Ponikarovsky (FA, Edinburgh) In: Vincent Lecavalier (free agent, from Frankfurt), Nate Thompson (FA, Berlin), Bryan Bickell (FA,…
Season 4 begins today (Aug. 19, 2014) with six games. The most interesting might be the offense-minded Zurich Lions playing in Defense City, Finland. Another interesting matchup comes Wednesday when Belfast tries out its new look lineup at home against the President’s Trophy-winning Paris Rouges Eiffels. And the defending champs, Moscow, open in Oslo on…
GM: Chris Legge (second GM in team’s history) Coach Guy Boucher Last season: 11th overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Eric Gelinas (trade), Morgan Rielly (trade) In: Ryan Suter (trade) In Place (Key players signed past Season 4) Zach Parise, LW; Eric Staal, C;…
