Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo 
GM: Ron Lavallee (4th GM in team’s history)
Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan)
Last season: 11th overall (In the playoffs, lost to Stockholm)
Ins and Outs:
(Season 8 to Season 9)
Out: Dennis Seidenberg (retired), Mark Fayne (free agent), Roman Lyubimov (free agent), Eddie Lack (free agent)
In: Keith Kincaid (free agent), Layne Viveiros (draft), Eetu Luostarinen (draft), Zachary Lauzon (draft)
In Place
(Key players signed past Season 9)
Wei Yang Zhang, RW; Mitch Marner, RW; Jiri Tlusty, LW; Kris Versteeg, LW
Three Questions
1.Moscow’s not exactly your average team, is it? Actually it is. If you look at the team stats from last season the Dynamo ranked in the middle of the pack in almost every category. They were 7th best in penalty killing, but they ranked between 10th and 16th in all other team stats, including points in the standings (11th overall). Their leading scorer was David Backes, who scored 21 goals and 63 points to rank him 62nd in the league. Again, pretty average. One person who isn’t average is goaltender Alexander Salak, a 28-year-old Czech who ranked fourth in the league in both save percentage (91.7) and goals against (2.47). Salak is on his final year of a Type 2 contract and observers expect that a year from now, General Manager David Reichel will make resigning the goalie his top priority.
2. What can we expect to see from the Dynamo this season? We can expect to see several fierce battles for ice time among the forwards, which one would think will lead to better play in games. Who do you think is Moscow’s top center, David Backes or Ryan O’Reilly? Backes scored more last year, hit more and had a better plus-minus, but O’Reilly had more takeaways and blocked shots. Should Max Pacioretty be the top line left winger over Kris Versteeg? Pacioretty would win the popular vote, but if you look at their Season 8 stats, Versteeg has the edge. And on right wing, any one of three players could get top minutes. Mitch Marner will be the undisputed top right winger soon, but today, he has competition from veterans Kyle Palmieri and Wei Yang Zhang. GM Reichel will probably have to waive a forward to get under the cap, but it seems Moscow will be able to send two strong lines onto the ice every game.
3. How will they look in the defensive zone? Dennis Seidenberg has retired and returned to Germany to spend time drinking with Guybrush Threepwood, and Mark Fayne is unsigned as a free agent. That means a third of the Moscow defense corps will be new to the team. Nick Leddy is by far the best asset back there. The former Minsk and Madrid defenseman has been a plus player in all of his three seasons in the Russian capital. Last year, he scored a personal best 13 goals despite missing 13 games due to injury. Jyri Marttinen, a 27-year-old Finn, will be a starter for the second year in a row, but the remaining D positions are occupied by guys with tenuous holds on them. Erik Andersson played regularly last year and Trevor Van Riemsdyk played part-time, and both are slotted into the second pairing as of now. Rookie Layne Viveiros and veteran Adam McQuaid are the only other two defensemen on the team at the moment and both would struggle as full-timers.
History
Season Place PTS PP % PK % SPG SAPG GPG GAPG PIM
Season 8 11 90 19.0 83.3 29.11 30.40 2.96 2.90 9.30
Season 7 13 87 17.2 80.8 29.44 29.98 3.17 3.22 9.79
Season 6 5 106 21.2 86.8 33.38 27.91 3.74 2.88 10.00
Season 5 6 107 20.9 86.9 32.50 27.45 3.67 2.76 9.67
Season 4 1 113 18.6 86.4 35.01 27.01 3.44 2.34 8.62
Season 3 4 (cup) 106 20.9 80.4 32.61 29.48 3.56 3.15 9.45
Season 2 5 101 18.4 83.4 32.62 28.21 3.38 2.8 11.21
Season 1 18 77 15.9 81.1 31.00 29.88 3.10 3.20 8.48
Top Draft picks
Season 1: Anze Kopitar, C, current age 32. Games played 632; Points 713, +11
Season 2: Alexander Salak, G, age 28. GP 253; Save Pct. 90.8
Season 3: Darnell Nurse, D, age 23. GP 172; Pts 38; -11
Season 4: Nikolaj Ehlers, LW, age 22. GP 144; Pts 41; Plus/minus +27
Season 5: Sam Godfrey, D, age 28. GP 60; Pts 15; -11
Season 6: Brock Boeser, RW, age 21.
Season 7: Olli Juolevi, D, age 20.
Season 8: Cody Glass, C, age 19.
Season 9: Layne Viveiros, D, age 20.
Trade History
Season 1 (picks without years listed are from initial draft)
Traded Round Phil Kessel and Bobby Ryan to Dublin for Alxeander Ovechkin and 2014 Round 1 pick (used to draft Darnell Nurse)
Season 2
Traded Alexander Ovechkin and Dave Bolland to Copenhagen for Andrew Ladd, Brandon Sutter and Kevin Dallman
*Three trades missing from this period. Tomas Kaberle seems to have been traded in one of them.
Season 3
Traded James Van Riemsdyk and Marcus Johansson to Stockholm for Dustin Brown
Season 4
Traded 2015 Round 1 pick to Berlin for Kris Versteeg
Season 5
Traded Darnell Nurse, 2016 Round 1 pick (traded later to Copenhagen and then Bratislava – Morten Madsen) and 2017 Round 1 pick to Frankfurt for Max Pacioretty
Traded Nicolas Ehlers to Helsinki for 2016 Round 1 pick (later traded to Gothenberg)
Traded Kevin Dallman and 2016 Round 1 pick (formerly Helsinki’s – Olli Palola) to Gothenberg for Ryan Suter and Blake Wheeler
Traded Aleksey Morozov to Gothenburg for 2018 Round 3 pick (Trevor Van Riemsdyk)
After Season 5 started
Signed Rich Peverley (free agent)
Traded Alexei Kalyuzhny to Lisbon for a 2017 Round 3 pick (Melker Karlsson)
Season 6
Traded Andrew Ladd, Jaroslav Halak, Brandon Sutter and a 2018 Round 2 pick (Noah Juulsen) to Athens for David Backes, Kyle Palmeiri and a 2018 Round 1 pick (Logan Brown)
After Season 6 started:
Traded Anze Kopitar to Athens for Ryan O’Reilly
Traded Brock Boeser to Helsinki for Mitch Marner
Traded Blake Wheeler, Marc-Andre Bourdon and 2018 Round 3 pick (Tage Thompson) to Madrid for Nick Leddy and Chris Stewart
Signed Mark Fayne and Brian Campbell (free agents)
Bought out Mike Brown
Season 7
Claimed Derek Roy and Gerhard Unterluggauer (waivers)
After season started: Traded Travis Sanheim to St.Petersburg for Karl Alzner
bought out contracts of Vinny Lecavalier and John Mitchell; claimed Riley Nash (waivers)
Season 8
Season 9
