Owner: Tommy Ahlers, founder & CEO of ZYB, a popular social media & networking site in Denmark. Farm club: Malmo (Sweden) Redhawks GM: Martin Sayle (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock (replaced Paul Maurice after Season 9. Maurice replaced Dave Cameron after Season 7; Cameron replaced Paul Maurice after Season 4; Maurice replaced Brent Sutter after Season…
Owner: Ralph Schwarz, from the Schwarz-Lidl discount store family, hockey and Alpine skiing fan extraordinaire. Farm Club: Hamburg (Germany) Freezers GM: Grant Sayle (9th GM in team’s history) Coach: Paul Maurice (replaced Mike Sulllivan after Season 9; Sullivan replaced Craig Berube after Season 6) Last season: 19th overall, (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Daniel Sedin (retired), Eric Gryba (free…
Team owner: Juraj Dluhy, CEO, Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec (a military equipment manufacturer in Detva, Slovakia.) Farm club: Vienna (Austria) Capitals GM: Chuck Massaro (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Lindy Ruff (replaced Brent Sutter after Season 6, who replaced Bruce Boudreau after Season 3) Last season: 13th overall (In playoffs, lost to Athens) Ins and Outs…
Farm Club: Cool Mokum Amsterdam (Netherlands) Owner: Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo, a London-based company that owns Dublin’s Guinness Brewery. 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 9 to Season 10) Out: Brian Elliott (free agent), Frans Nielsen (retired), Jake Allen (trade), Cody Eakin (waivers),…
Farm Club: Bergen (Norway) Bandits GM: Chris Lee (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Peter Laviolette (replaced Dave Cameron, who replaced Dave Hakstol after 1 game of Season 8. Hakstol replaced Claude Julien after Season 6, who replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 3) Last season: 20th overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10)…
Team owner: Neil Patrick Harris, American actor and Smurf fanatic Farm Club: Kolner Haie GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates Last season: 3rd overall (In the playoffs, defeated Milan, defeated Geneva, defeated Athens, lost to Belfast in Finals ) Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Ossi Vaanenen (free agent), Niklas Svedberg (free agent), Anthony Nigro (free…
Owner: Jim Balsillie, Canadian businessman Farm Club: Monaco Gamblers GM: Stephen R (4th GM in team’s history) Coach John Tortorella Last season: 1st overall, (In playoffs, defeated Bratislava, then defeated Paris, then lost to Berlin in the conference finals) Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Tomas Vincour (free agent), Alex Goligiski (free agent), Michael Frolik (free agent),…
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 Paris Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Derek Stepan (free agent), Mikhail Grigorenko (free agent), Justin Bailey (bought out), Dylan…
Farm Club: MAC Budapest (Hungary) GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Patrick Roy (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 9, Boucher replaced Paul MacLean after Season 8, who replaced Patrick Roy after Season 7; Roy replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 22nd overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Dmitry Kulikov (waivers), Ondrej Pavelec (free agent) In: Anton Forsberg…
Owner: Bogdan Podarok, entrepeneur Farm Club: Aalborg (Denmark) Pirates GM: Austin Dwyer (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Randy Carlyle (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 5) Last season: 23rd overall; missed playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Marc-Edouard Vlasic (free agent) In: T.J. Brennan (free agent), Andrei Svechnikov (draft), Oliver Wahlstrom (draft), Rasmus Sandin (draft), Jan Drozg (draft) In Place (Key players signed past…
