GM: Dylan Callow (only GM in team’s history)
Coach: Dave Cameron (Replaced Paul Maurice after Season 4) (Maurice replaced Brent Sutter after Season 3)
Last season: 12th overall
Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5)
Out: Shea Weber (trade), Alexander Ovechkin (trade), Dion Phaneuf (trade), Alex Goligoski (trade), Troy Brouwer (trade), Brooks Laich (trade), Andrej Meszaros (trade), Brian Elliott (trade), Nick Holden (trade), Matt Frattin (trade), Martin Thornberg (trade), Tomas Fleischmann (free agent), Boyd Gordon (free agent)
In: Joe Pavelski (trade), Jonathan Drouin (trade), Dougie Hamilton (trade), Slava Voynov (trade), Brian Campbell (trade), Brooks Orpik (trade), Tim Thomas (trade), Gareth Roberts (trade), Marko Dano (trade), Martin Erat (trade), Bryan Bickel (trade), Chris Higgins (free agent), Josh Holden (free agent), Kevin Bieksa (waivers), Joni Pitkanen (waivers), Simon Hjalmarsson (draft), Ville Vahalahti (draft), Darryl Boyle (free agent), Romas Starchenko (free agent), Chris Legge (free agent), Andrew Dickson (free agent), Dennis Rasmussen (free agent), Denis Hollenstein (free agent)
In Place (Key players signed past Season 5)
Joe Pavelski, C; Stephen Weiss, C; Dougie Hamilton, D; Slava Voynov, D 
Three Questions
1. Is another drop in store? Copenhagen is the most prestigious team in the league. Drive around Europe and you will see Tridents jerseys in every corner. But you may notice the names on the back are … well, wrong. Luongo? He plays for Zurich. Ovechkin? Now with Belfast. Weber? In Lisbon these days. The Tridents are shifting and they have traded away many of their stars of seasons past. Season 4 saw the Tridents drop 21 points in the standings and for the first time, they weren’t among the top 4 teams in the league. Copenhagen GM Dylan Callow immediately started a rebuild, adding 22 new players to the team this year. That’s more than one player for each point dropped in the standings. The purge must have Copenhagen’s new players wondering what will happen if they miss an open net or let in a cheap goal. Just three days into the season, rumors circulated that goalie Thomas Greiss was on his way out of town as soon as Callow finds a buyer. The resultant team chemistry right now resembles that of a refugee camp. It’s so confusing, players snickered in practice when two players responded “yes, coach” simultaneously when Coach Dave Cameron yelled “Holden.” The snickering players were surprised to find out later that there were in fact two members of the team named Holden. The very next practice, the team was down to one Holden. Copenhagen fans used to winning can only hope the player introductions go well and the team chemistry mixes quickly. Cameron has rough waters facing him and he needs help from the captains – Brooks Orpik, Stephen Weiss and Tim Thomas – in getting the Tridents rowing in the same direction.
2. Scoring was down last year for the Tridents. Will the forwards pick it up? The top line now is Joe Pavelski and two players to be named later, who will probably be traded away anyway, so scoring won’t reach the level at which the former top line of Alexander Ovechkin, Stephen Weiss and Tomas Fleischmann produced. And Shea Weber is a big weapon that’s missing from the point. Nathan Gerbe will get a chance to be a big scorer for the team when he plays with either Pavelski or creative Martin Erat and Weiss. But it’s not as if the Tridents have been reduced to a group of Juniors and college boys. All but two of the forwards are 24 years and older and many are in their prime years. And they have some past success to call upon. Between the two of them, Pavelski and Weiss have four 40-goal seasons behind them, and Pavelski and Chris Higgins have EURO Cups on their resume.
3. The lineup lists 6 “offensive defensemen.” Is that a concern? The Trident blueline is missing Weber, Dion Phaneuf and Andrej Meszaros this year and in their place are players labeled “offensive” defensemen. In fact, all six current starters share that label. The trade that sent Alex Goligoski to Athens moved defensive-minded Brooks Orpik to Denmark, but he is not starter at the moment. The focus on offense might mean new goalie Tim Thomas will be busier than he hopes to be. But moving the puck up ice and then onto the forwards in the other team’s zone will come easier thanks to the likes of Slava Voynov, Dougie Hamilton, Brian Campbell and the rest of the corps. For that plan to work, Copenhagen will need shooters like Pavelski and Weiss to convert chances.
History
Season Place PTS PP % PK % SPG SAPG GPG GAPG PIM
Season 4 12 90 21.0 85.2 33.11 27.41 3.30 3.00 10.23
Season 3 2 111 22.4 83.3 32.24 28.66 3.95 2.99 9.90
Season 2 1 114 18.2 86.3 33.13 27.65 3.72 2.59 8.89
Season 1 4 108 19.9 86.3 32.10 29.05 3.66 2.76 9.57
Top Draft picks
Season 1: Roberto Luongo, G, current age 36. Games played: 268; Save Pct. 90.8
Season 2: Kevin Dallman, D, age 28. GP 244, Pts 133, +40
Season 3: Nikita Zadorov, D, age 19
Season 4: Nick Holden, D, age 27. GP 80, Points 26, -23
Season 5: Simon Hjalmarsson, C, age 22
Trade History
Season 1 (picks without years listed are from initial draft)
Traded Round 3 pick (used to draft Jimmy Howard) to Oslo for Round 5 pick (used to draft Andrew Ladd) and Round 7 pick (Alex Goligoski)
Traded Round 5 pick (Paul Stastny) and Round 12 pick (Marc Staal) to Helsinki for Round 4 pick (Stephen Weiss)
Traded Alexandre Burrows to Oslo for Round 8 pick (Andrej Meszaros) and Round 12 pick (Boyd Gordon)
Season 2
Traded Jonas Hiller and Darrell Powe to Stockholm for Mark Giordano and Matthieu Garon
Traded Andrew Ladd, Brandon Sutter and Kevin Dallman to Moscow for Alexander Ovechkin and Dave Bolland
Traded 2014 Round 1 pick (Jake Allen) to Dublin for Tomas Fleischmann
Season 3
Traded Dave Bolland and Dany Heatley to Munich for Brooks Laich and Tomas Zaborsky
Traded 2015 Round 2 pick (Julius Honka) to Minsk for Andres De La Garma
Traded Kevin Shattenkirk, Teddy Purcell and Carl Gunnarsson to London for Shea Weber
Season 4
Traded Roberto Luongo to Zurich for Brian Elliott
Traded Colin Greening to Stockholm for T.J. Brodie
Traded Mark Giodano, Nikita Zadorov, Charlie Coyle and 2016 Round 1 pick to Munich for Dion Phaneuf
Season 5
Traded 2016 Round 2 pick (Reto Suri) to Madrid for Andrew Cogliano
Traded 2016 Round 3 pick (Michael Keranen) to Zurich for Martin Thornberg
Traded Shea Weber to Lisbon for Dougie Hamilton, Gareth Roberts and 2016 Round 1 pick (later traded to Bratislava)
Traded Andrej Meszaros to Madrid for Marko Dano and 2017 Round 2 pick
Traded Dion Phaneuf to Berlin for Slava Voynov, Martin Erat and 2017 Round 3 pick
Traded Alexander Ovechkin to Belfast for Joe Pavelski, Jonathan Drouin and 2016 Round 1 pick (Ville Vahalahti)
Traded Matt Frattin and 2016 Round 1 pick (Morten Madsen) to Bratislava for 2017 Round 1 pick (Simon Hjalmarsson)
Traded Alex Goligoski to Athens for Brooks Orpik, Bryan Bickel and 2017 Round 1 pick
Traded Brian Elliott to Dublin for Tim Thomas and 2017 Round 1 pick
Traded Troy Brouwer to Bratislava for a 2017 Round 2 pick
After the start of Season 5
Traded Brooks Laich, Andrew Cogliano and Nick Holden to Madrid for Brian Campbell and 2017 Round 1 pick
Traded Thomas Greiss to Bern for 2018 Round 3 pick
Lost Bryan Bickell (waivers)
Traded Brian Campbell and 2018 Round 3 pick to Milan for Jonathan Blum
Claimed Benoit Pouliot (waivers)
Claimed Clarke MacArthur (waivers)
Traded Chris Legge to Gothenburg for 2019 Round 3 pick
Claimed Chris Kunitz (waivers)
Claimed Steve Ott (waivers)
