Team owner: Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, Queen of Spain. A former television journalist, she married King Felipe VI Farm Club: HC Barcelona GM: Tony B (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Dan Bylsma Last season: 7th overall. In playoffs, lost to Lisbon Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Erik Karlsson (trade), Gabriel Landeskog (trade), Patrik Berglund (free agent), Blake Wheeler (free agent), Marc-Andre…
Season 9 of the EURO League gets started Saturday evening with six games across Europe. One of the match-ups that night will feature the league’s best looking players (Bratislava Eagles) versus the league’s ugliest players (Berlin Smurfs). That game will also be Tyler Ennis’ first game in Bratislava wearing something that is not an Eagles…
Farm Club: Hamburg (Germany) Freezers GM: Grant Sayle (9th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Sulllivan (replaced Craig Berube after Season 6) Last season: 20th overall, (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Chris Campoli (free agent) In: Attila Adorjan (draft), Linus Higberg (draft), Marian Studenic (draft) In Place (Key players signed past Season 9) David…
Owner: Sophia Rousseau, CEO, ELITE Models (Top Model agency in Paris) Farm Club: Paris Francais Volants GM: Tim Norelco (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Michel Therrien (replaced Randy Cunneyworth after Season 2) Last season: 8th overall (In playoffs, lost to Bratislava) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Alexander Semin (free agent), Mike Richards (free agent), Steve Olesky (free agent), Tom…
Team Owner: C. Montgomery Burns, owner, Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Farm Club: Tottenham Templars GM: Eric Smith (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Barry Trotz (replaced Darryl Sutter after Season 7, who replaced Ken Hitchcock after Season 6) Last season: 21st overall; did not make the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Kevin Shattenkirk…
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)…
Farm Club: MAC Budapest (Hungary) GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Guy Boucher (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 8, who replaced Patrick Roy after Season 7; Roy replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 18th overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: James Neal (free agent), Cory Conacher (free agent) In: Miro Aaltonen…
Owners – Two of Northern Ireland’s most famous sons: actor James (Jimmy) Nesbitt (probably best known internationally for his part as one of the dwarves in the Hobbit trilogy); and model/actor/’GLAMOUR sexiest man of 2017′ Jamie Dornan of ‘Fifty Shades’ fame. Farm Club: Belfast Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault (replaced Darryl Sutter) Last…
Owner: Jim Balsillie, Canadian businessman Farm Club: Monaco Gamblers GM: Stephen R (4th GM in team’s history) Coach John Tortorella Last season: 2nd overall, (In playoffs, defeated Geneva, then lost to Lisbon) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Loui Eriksson (free agent), Jason Pominville (free agent), Derek Ryan (free agent), Bobby Butler (free…
Farm Club: Cool Mokum Amsterdam (Netherlands) GM: Gayle Rock (Fourth GM in team’s history) Coach: Bruce Cassidy (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 7; MacLean replaced Dave Tippett after Season 4; Tippett replaced Alain Vigneault after Season 3) Last season: 17th overall, (Missed the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: James Van Riemsdyk (free agent), Ryan Murray (trade), Vladimir Sobotka (free agent),…
