GM: Michael Sauer (third GM in team’s history)

Coach: Mike Johnston (replaced Bob Hartley after Season 4)(Hartley replaced Claude Noel after Season 3)

Last season: 8th overall, In playoffs, lost to Gothenberg

Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7)

Out:  Jeff Carter (traded), Derick Brassard (free agent), Mattias Sjogren (traded).

In: David Krejci (trade), Mats Zuccarello (trade), Louis Domingue (draft), Sam Steel (draft), Jeremy Lauzon (draft)

In Place

(Key players signed past Season 6)

Bobby Ryan, LW; Eric Staal, C;  Ryan Johansen, RW; Braden Holtby, G; Zach Bogosian, D; Olli Maatta, D; John Klingberg, D

 

 

 

Three Questions

1. How good is Stockholm’s defense corps? In a couple of words, they are among the most enviable collections of blueliners in the league. If you look at last year’s scoring list, forwards on the team’s top two lines occupied spots one through six, but they were followed by five defensemen who do a great job of adding to the offense. Zach Bogosian, Cam Fowler, Olli Maata, Keith Yandle and second-year pro John Klingberg are five of many reasons the Eagles were able to shoot up the standings from 19th to 8th overall last season. Those five Dmen could be fixtures in the Stockholm lineup for at least this season and next.

2. Can they win it this season? Minsk seems to be as strong as they were last year, so getting past them and into the finals will be quite the task, but Stockholm has the horses to make a good go of it. Having Brayden Holtby as the goalie certainly helps. The 27-year-old should put together a campaign that includes a save percentage around 91 percent. He had a good playoff series against Gothenburg last year but they lost and he will surely want to go a lot farther than one round this season.

3. Up front? The Eagles can put together two good lines and part of a third. They will be relying heavily on fourth liners Curtis Lazar, Charlie Coyle, Tomas Jurco and sometimes Riley Nash to keep their shifts in plus territory. The third line with Jack Eichel, Ryan Johansen and Luke Adam will also be pivotal and Stockholm needs production there while opposing teams focus on stopping the top two lines which are both powerful and dangerous. Stockholm has a long, long trading history and the parade turned into a trickle this off season. But Jeff Carter, 32, was sent packing to Berlin and in return, David Krejci, 31, was ushered in as the new top line center ahead of veteran Eric Staal on the depth chart.

History

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

Season 6               8              93            17.6    81.8       29.88        31.88      3.04       3.09     10.46

Season 5              19               74          15.0     75.6       28.6          32.28     2.82       3.59     10.27

Season 4              15              82           16.9     79.1       26.33         32.91     3.04        3.26    10.00

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 33. Games played: 402; Save Pct: 89.6

Season 2: Mattias Sjogren, LW, age 24. GP 325, Pts. 71, -16

Season 3: Brendan Gallagher, RW, age 24. GP 313, Pts. 199, -56

Season 4: Olli Maatta, D, age 22. GP 231, Pts. 67, +13

Season 5: Jindrich Barak, D, age 21.

Season 6: John Klingberg, D, 23.  GP 82, Points 36, -6

Season 7: Louis Domingue, G, age 23

Trade History

Seasons 2 and 3

Traded Keaton Ellerby to London for 2014 Round 3 pick (Curtis Lazar)

Traded Ryan Ellis to Gothenburg for Zach Boychuk

Traded Gothenburg’s 2015 Round 2 pick () to St. Petersburg for Kevin Bieksa

Traded Mikko Lehtonen and Gothenburg’s 2014 Round 1  pick (Jonathan Drouin) to Belfast for Rick Nash

Traded Jaden Schwartz to Milan for Mike Richards and 2015 Round 2 pick (later traded)

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 Neuvirth

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

Traded Miko Koivu to Paris for Jaden Schwartz and Stockholm’s previously traded away 2014 Round 1 pick (Brendan Gallagher)

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 (later traded, Josh Ho-Sang)

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

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 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)

Season 5

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

Traded Dmitri Orlov and Jake Muzzin to London for Zach Bogosian

Traded Nikita Scherbak to Helsinki for 2016 Round 2 pick (Connor Bleackley) and 2016 Round 3 pick (Oslo’s) (Ryan Gunderson).

Season 6

Traded Karl Alzner to Bratislava for Luke Adam

Traded Jeff Carter to Copenhagen for Steve Chalmers, 2017 Round 2 pick (Daniel Sprong) and 2017 Round 3 pick (Linden Vey)

Traded Mike Richards to Paris for Mikko Koivu, 2017 Round 2 pick (Mirco Mueller) and 2017 Round 3 pick (Vladislav Namestnikov)

Traded 2019 Round 2 pick to Berlin for Erik Ersberg

Traded Pavel Datsyuk to Helsinki for 2017 Round 3 pick (Johan Larsson)

Traded Marcus Foligno to Lisbon for Adam Lowry

Traded Mikko Koivu to Gothenburg for Eric Staal

Traded Sean Monahan,  Craig Smith, Jindrich Barak, Cody Ceci and 2018 Round 1 pick to Munich for Jack Eichel, Charlie Coyle and 2018 Round 2 pick

After Season 6 started:

Traded Marcus Johansson to Prague for Bryan Little

Traded Simon Despres to Bratislava for Mark Pysyk

Traded J.T. Miller and Connor Bleakley to Prague for Tomas Jurco

Season 7 

Traded Jeff Carter and 2020 Round 1 pick to Berlin for David Krejci and 2020 Round 2 pick

Traded Mattias Sjogren to St. Petersburg for Mats Zuccarello and 2018 Round 2 pick (Louis Domingue)

after season started: Traded Tomas Jurco and Dalton Prout to Copenhagen for Ilya Nikulin and Lars Eller; lost Riley Nash (waivers).

*I will try to fill in all the season 2 trades I lost track of before.