Team owner: Sergei Smirnov, former director of JSC Proletarsky Zavod Farm Club: Sibir Novosibirsk (Russia) GM: Ben Stuller (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: John Stevens (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 8, who replaced Paul Maurice after Season 6, who replaced Kevin Dineen after Season 4) Last season: 15th overall, (In playoffs, lost to Belfast) Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season…
Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo GM: David Reichel (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 16th overall (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs: (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Mitch Marner (trade) Kris Versteeg (free agent), Jyri Marttinen (free agent), Vojtech Nemec (free agent), Jiri Tlusty (free agent), Layne Viveiros (trade), Aaron Dell (free agent) In: Mikko…
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: 19th overall; missed playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Beau Bennett (free agent), Dylan Olsen (free agent), Petr Zamorsky (free agent), Pierre-Marc Bouchard (retired) In: P.K. Subban (free agent), Jack…
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 City Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault (replaced Darryl Sutter) …
The champs signed a depth winger today in Frenchman Antoine Roussel. The 31-year-old has played 18 career games, all with Bratislava, and if he scores a goal or gets an assist for Copenhagen, it will be his first EURO League point. Only Myles Wood of Berlin has played more games without scoring a point. He…
“I like that I’ll be free to start trouble and not finish it,” a smiling P.K. Subban said after agreeing to a $9.85 million contract to play in Gothenburg this season. The veteran defenseman who played for the Belfast Giants for 8 seasons and the Madrid Royals for two, is now the Frolunda’s premier defenseman.…
The Madrid Royals had a productive day, adding star offensive winger Tyler Ennis and two defensemen – two of them Smurfs last season – to the family. They also saw three family members move to other families today. Ennis, who has played for Southern Conference rivals Bratislava and Berlin, decided to take his 32-year-old body…
As of halfway into the first day of free agent signings for Season 11, only one player had more than one team courting him. Defenseman Patrick Wiercioch, a 30-year-old who has proven he can put the puck in the net, signed with Athens today, choosing the Gods over the Red Bulls of Munich. He inked…
