GM: Dylan Callow (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Brent Sutter Last season: 2nd overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Roberto Luongo (trade), Colin Greening (trade), Mark Giodano (trade), Nikita Zadorov (trade), Charlie Coyle (trade) In: Brian Elliott (trade), Dion Phaneuf (trade), T.J. Brodie (trade), Mason Raymond, (free agent, London), Nathan Gerbe (free…
Prospects without attributes were shunned in two of the last three picks of the draft. Berlin, which couldn’t pick any more prospects, took the guy Copenhagen was hoping to grab when they selected Carl Soderberg, a big, Swedish center who can score points. But he will find it hard getting playing time in Smurfland with…
Three more trades to report on during the draft, as three teams were involved in a round robin of deals. The latest trade occurred this morning and saw Shane Doan, captain of the Stockholm Eagles, depart with unsigned free agent teammates Anton Babchuk and Corey Potter. The trio is now property of the Bern Bears…
Goalie Eddie Lack looked surprised to hear his name called by Madrid as the EURO draft hit pick number 65. The Royals had recently traded for Jonas Hiller, drafted Darcy Kuemper and they already had Robin Lehner on their roster. Lack looks to be fourth on the depth chart and two of the guys in…
Swiss team Bern looked to Austria for their pick in the third round, tapping Michael Raffl, 25, with the 59th pick overall. Raffl moves fast and a lot as a left winger and he is expected to play a defensive role for the Bears, He could be their fourth-line winger this season with Derek Dorsett…
After Michael Bournival, a hustling left winger, was taken by Stockholm to open the third round of the draft, the next 9 or so picks came fast and furious. Six of the round’s 10 picks were proespects. Jon Merrill, a 21-year-old defenseman who can move the puck, was drafted by Minsk with the 50th pick,…
The teams have completed two rounds of the Season 3 draft and have entered the third and final round. Not too many of the players who have been selected in the last 15 or 20 picks will see their names on the back of a EURO team jersey later this month when Season 4 begins.…
Calvin De Haan looks like he’ll be a smooth skater, a good puck handler with a good work ethic when he gets a little older. Today the defenseman became a member of the Oslo Outlaws. The 22-year-old Canadian is Oslo’s second player to come in the draft. They took 20-year-old Czech Tomas Hertl with the…
Nine more teams made trades Sunday and Monday to bring the total of off-season deals to 10. One deal saw two big, tough, young forwards go from Helsinki to Frankfurt in exchange for Travis Zajac, a 29-year-old who becomes Helsinki’s second line center. Zajac is a good all-around player who never scored more than 39 points…
When Dion Phaneuf gets too old to hit people and intimidate, Radko Gudas will be there for the Munich Fox. GM Troy Huzy made the bearded Czech his team’s first pick in the EURO Draft, taking him 20th overall. Gudas hits everything in sight, but he also is capable of playing well positionally and he…
