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 (trade), Darroll Powe (free agent), Miikka Kiprusoff (free agent)

In: Bobby Ryan (trade), Pavel Datsyuk (free agent), Viktor Fasth (trade), Colin Greening (trade), Tomas Vokoun (trade), Olli Maatta (draft), Cody Ceci (draft), Nikita Scherbak (draft), Julius Honka (draft), Michael Bournival (draft)

In Place

(Key players signed past Season 4)

 

 

 

Braden Holtby, G; Jeff Carter, RW; Mike Richards, C; Mike Green, D; Brendan Gallagher, RW

 

 

 

Three Questions

1. How can the Eagles avoid the triple? Stockholm probably shouldn’t have finished last for the second straight year last season, but it did. A poor start lingered, affected confidence and momentum, and the wheels came off. Players were sent packing and others came in and team chemistry was a misty dream that Stockholm never realized. If the Eagles can realize some early-season success, they should be able to keep lines together and build chemistry and momentum because they have talent. And they have Braden Holtby. He is the lowest-paid and youngest (24) of Stockholm’s three goalies, but he is the best. He should be between the pipes in Sweden for years and he will help them win games and climb from the basement. But he and other Stockholm players have learned to rent apartments, not buy houses. They know that when the going gets tough in Stockholm, General Manager Michael Sauer’s trade phone gets going.

2. How are the forwards? Sauer and coach Bob Hartley have assembled four sensible lines. The top three of them include a pinch of experience, a dash of grit and a handful of puck skill. Jeff Carter, Mike Richards and Bobby Ryan make a potentially deadly top line. Pavel Datsyuk, at age 36, is the leader of the second line, but the wily Russian will have a chore ahead of him in keeping young flyer Brendan Gallagher and offense-minded Derick Brassard from letting their youthful enthusiasm take them out of position or make risky plays. But they could click to become a force their foes won’t like playing against. Colin Greening, who came to Stockholm in a trade with Copenhagen, seems a little out of place with offensive-minded Craig Smith and Marcus Johansson, but the line can certainly use his grit and defensive attitude. And he will be a key penalty killer for Stockholm. The fourth line is a look into the Eagles’ future. Sean Monahan centers Ryan Johansen and Mattias Sjogren on a line of 20- to 22-year-olds who could be together for many seasons. They will take their lumps this year, but they will gain experience – and they hope develop chemistry – to cause much damage from Season 6 on.

3. How is the defense corps? If 26-year-old Jason Demers can be considered a veteran, then Stockholm has three veteran defensemen. Mike Green, 29, and Kevin Bieksa, 33, are the leaders back there. All three of the blueliners are mentoring young defensemen right now. The Eagles are stacked with young defensemen – 7 of them between the ages of 19 and 24.  Cam Fowler is the marquee member of that group. The 23-year-old is probably the best overall defenseman on the team and he is more reliable than darkness at night. He has played in every Stockholm game ever. He has scored a little more than 100 points in three-plus seasons, but is almost -100 in plus/minus rating in that time. Fowler is the key player on defense for Stockholm now and in the future.

History

Season                 Place        PTS        PP %      PK %      SPG        SAPG     GPG     GAPG    PIM

Season 3              24              57           14.5      77.8      25.77         32.01     2.65         3.76    11.02

Season 2              24              49           12.7      80.0      25.37         34.78     2.33        3.93    11.18

Season 1              11              93           21.5      80.4      32.61         30.01     3.48        3.28     9.01

Top Draft picks

Season 1: Cam Ward, G, current age 30. Games played: 207; Save Pct: 89.4

Season 2: Mattias Sjogren, LW, age 21. GP 127, Pts. 33, -17

Season 3: Brendan Gallagher, RW, age 21. GP 71, Pts. 31, +1

Season 4: Olli Maatta, D, age 19

Trade History

Seasons 2 and 3

Traded Kyle Okposo and 2014 Round 1 pick (gotten back later in a trade) (used to pick Brendan Gallagher) to Milan for Dustin Brown and 2014 Round 2 pick (Marcus Foligno)

Traded Cam Ward to Athens for Miikka Kiprusoff and Michal Neuvorth

Traded Josef Vasicek to Paris for Derek Brassard, Ryan Ellis and T.J. Brodie

Traded Miko Koivu to Paris for Jaden Schwartz and 2014 Round 1 pick (probably traded later (lost track))

Traded Loui Eriksson to Berlin for Mikko Lehtonen and 2014 Round 1 pick (Madrid’s) (Sean Monahan)

Traded Mark Fayne and 2014 Round 3 pick (Guillaume Latendresse) to Oslo for Mark Giordano

Traded Ryan Clowe to Paris for 2014 Round 3 pick (Thomas Hickey)

Traded Mark Giordano and Matthieu Garon to Copenhagen for Jonas Hiller and Darroll Powe

Traded Eric Staal to Gothenburg for Sam Gagner, 2014 Round 1 pick (later traded) (Jonathan Drouin) and 2015 Round 2 pick (?)

Traded Thomas Hickey to Milan for Magnus Johansson

Traded Rick Nash and 2015 Round 2 pick (Milan’s) (Jake Virtanen) to Madrid  Jeff Carter, Ryan Johansen and 2015 Round 1 pick (later traded) (Tomas Hertl)

Traded Dustin Brown to Moscow for Marcus Johansson and James Van Riemsdyk

Traded Travis Hamonic to Paris for Dmitri Orlov and 2014 Round 1 pick (Bern’s) (Jake Muzzin)

Traded Magnus Johansson to Munich for Anton Babchuk

Traded Sam Gagner, Michal Neuvirth and 2015 Round 1 pick (Madrid’s) (later traded) (Tomas Hertl) to London for Braden Holtby

Traded Jordan Caron to Paris for Mike Green

Not sure of the exact trades but traded away Kyle Okposo, Mikko Lehtonen, Jaden Schwartz and 3 draft picks and received Rick Nash, Mike Richards, Dustin Brown and Kevin Bieksa in return.

Season 4

Traded James Van Riemsdyk and Jakub Petruzalek to Dublin for Bobby Ryan

Traded Shane Doan, Anton Babchuk and Corey Potter to Bern for Mike Cammalleri and Dalton Prout

Traded 2017 Round 3 pick to Minsk for 2015 Round 2 pick (?)

Traded 2018 Round 3 pick to Paris for Viktor Fasth

Traded T.J. Brodie to Copenhagen for Colin Greening

Traded Jonas Hiller to Madrid for Tomas Vokoun and 2015 Round 2 pick (Nikita Scherbak)

*I failed to save trades in season 2 so I lost track of many Stockholm transactions.