GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history – Took over 1 game into Season 6) Coach: Patrick Roy (replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 16th overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Niko Hovinen (trade), Calvin Pickard (trade), Andrey Bykov (trade), Andrej Sekera (free agent), Marcel Hossa (free agent) In: Aleksander Barkov (trade),…
Munich 4, Belfast 3 – It took nine games, but Daniel and Henrik Sedin finally combined for a Munich goal and that seemed to wake up the slumping Dire Wolf and catapult the team to a win over visiting Belfast. Munich got two big goals in the second period from Nikita Zadorov and Talgat Zhailauov…
Madrid 4, Paris 3 – It’s not easy to win a game in Paris if you’re the visitors, but the Royals left with 2 points Wednesday. After Patrik Berglund tied the game 3-3 in the second period, the unlikely hero for Madrid was quiet Swiss rookie Reto Suri, who beat Phillipp Grubauer after taking a…
GM: Rocky H (7th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Sulllivan (replaced Craig Berube after Season 6) Last season: 10th overall, (in playoffs, lost to Athens) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Patrick Marleau (free agent), Travis Zajac (free agent) In: Daniel Sedin (free agent), Teddy Purcell (free agent), Clayton Keller (draft), Alexander Nylander (draft), Oscar Lindberg (draft) In…
GM: Andy Rolling (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Brent Sutter (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 6, who replaced Darryl Sutter before Season 6, who replaced Joel Quenneville after Season 3) Last season: 17th overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Gerhard Unterluggauer (waivers), Ondrej Pavelec ( free agent), Dany Heatley…
Athens 5, Munich 1 – When Tomas Fleischmann found out his Munich Dire Wolf had acquired Daniel Sedin, planned to pair him with his twin Henrik and give Fleischmann the right wing on that line, he probably said, “Oh great! I get to play with the Sedin twins!” Now he’s probably saying sarcastically, “Oh great. I…
GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates Last season: 3rd overall (In the playoffs, defeated Lisbon, defeated Madrid, lost to Paris) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: David Krejci (traded), Patric Hornquist (free agent), Niklas Hjalmarsson (free agent), Aleksander Barkov (traded), Leon Draisaitl (traded), Joni Pitkanen (free agent), Tim Gleason (free…
Geneva 3, Munich 0 – The Geneva Generals are the only undefeated team in the EURO League with a record that has reached 7-0. Defense and penalty killing have been the winning formula so far for Coach Brent Sutter, with the Generals allowing just 9 goals while scoring 22 this season. On Monday, the formula…
GM: Paja Jansson (6th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Babcock Last season: 21st overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Dennis Seidenberg (free agent), Joe Thornton (free agent), Andrei Kostitsyn (waivers), Drew Miller (free agent),Michael Raffl (free agent), Mike Lundin (free agent) In: Josef Vasicek (free agent), Dmitry Orlov (free…
Moscow 6, London 1 – The score was a little deceiving … it could have been much worse for the Dons,. They were outshot 46-9 in the game and 14-1 in the final period. London has won just once in the seven games this season and it’s as if the Dons have lost interest in the sport. Ryan…
