Season 12: Lisbon H.C.

Owner: Sara Sampaio, Portuguese super model

Farm Club – HC Porto (Portugal)

GM: Bryan Camara (4th GM in team’s history)

Coach: Barry Trotz (replaced Willie Desjardins after Season 11) (Desjardins replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 4) (Laviollette replaced Todd McLellan after Season 3)

Last season: 24th overall. Did not make playoffs.

Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12)

Out: Kari Ramo (trade), Jonas Holos (trade), Andre Burakovsky (free agent), Benedikt Bruckner (free agent), Cody Eakin (trade), Casey Mittelstadt (waivers), Reid Boucher (free agent), Brendan Perlini (waivers)

In: Carey Price (trade, but bought out with 0 GP), Sean Monahan (trade), Anthony Mantha (trade), Emil Bemstrom (trade), T.J. Brodie (waivers), Joseph Veleno (trade), Ondrej Kase (waivers), Alex Stalock (Free agent), Tobias Rieder (waivers), Adam Lowry (waivers), Dmitrij Jaskin (waivers), Erik Gudbranson (free agent), Alejandro Hernandez (waivers), Mathieu Joseph (waivers), Michael Hutchinson (free agent)

In Place (Key players signed past Season 12)

Mathew Barzal, C; Max Domi, LW; Jonathan Drouin, LW; Sean Monahan, C; John Marino, D;

Three Questions

1. What happened in Season 11 to Lisbon HC? You don’t often see a team drop 47 points and go from 7th to 24th place in one season, but that’s what happened to our Portuguese friends last season. It was as if Coach Willie Desjardins and superstars John Tavares and Steven Stamkos decided to take a year off. They were seen at the beach Praia de Sao Pedro do Estoril more than they were seen in the rink. Tavares, 31 at the time, played 29 minutes per game and his point production dropped from 129 to 65. He scored 55 goals in Season 10 and just 15 last season. He was a -66 player. Stamkos was -59 and for the first time in his career, scored fewer than 33 goals (he had 23). But General Manager Bryan Camara, dressed in a super hero costume, has flown in to save the day. He turned the team over and started doing chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, trying to save it. He booted Desjardins and coaxed Barry Trotz to coach, rattled off three trades, signed a few free agents, and used his 24th place in the standings to devour the waiver wire, claiming 6 players. This Lisbon team already looks a lot different.

2. Will Tavares and Stamkos be demoted? They won’t be. You know why? Because they are Tavares and Stamkos, that’s why. The 32-year-olds are still superstars capable of hitting the 100-point mark this season, even though they were terrible by their standards last season. Lisbon scored fewer goals than anyone last year and Tavares and Stamkos should accept most of the blame. Max Domi will again start on their left side. Should things seem like a recreation of the last season, be prepared for Coach Barry Trotz to shuffle the deck. Behind Tavares on the depth chart are two high-offense younger players in Sean Monahan and Mathew Barzal. Either of those two could play next to Stamkos if they had to, but the real point is Lisbon can place Tavares, Monahan and Barzal as centers on three lines! That will make the Portuguese tougher to contain for sure. The wingers aren’t as good as those centers, but the waiver wire was good to Camara and he reshaped the team with trades. This GM is not rebuilding through the draft. He wants results now.

3. Can they stop the other teams? Not with Carey Price wearing an HC Porto jersey, they won’t. Camara traded for Price in the off season but he is having trouble getting his $10 million contract into the lineup. Right now, Price is on the farm club and the team’s goalies are Michael Hutchinson and Alex Stalock. Our guess is the GM will think about waiving some players to get Price into the lineup. The Canadian won two Cups with Minsk and last season, he was the main man for Helsinki when they took the President’s Trophy as the best regular season team. The blueline is again led by dependable Drew Doughty and Sami Vatanen. Doughty has been with the franchise since he was the 38th player taken in the initial league draft. From Season 2 on, he has scored at least 10 goals and 40 points. Last season, he had 14 goals and 41 points. Vatanen was drafted by Lisbon and has been a regular for 8 seasons coming into Season 12. He is a smooth player who had a positive turnover ratio the last two years. Lisbon has 3 new defensemen in the lineup in Erik Gudbranson, T.J. Brodie and rookie John Marino. Management is hoping a change in chemistry throughout most of the lineup will change the collective mindset in Lisbon and start the team climbing the league ladder right away.

History

Season Place PTS PP % PK % SPG SAPG GPG GAPG PIM

Season 1 23 57 18.8 76.4 26.76 32.20 3.04 4.38 9.78

Season 2 21 70 13.0 80.3 27.78 30.67 2.83 3.73 11.83

Season 3 16 83 20.2 80.9 28.39 31.09 3.41 3.46 11.80

Season 4 14 82 18.5 77.9 30.63 31.39 3.38 3.73 9.70

Season 5 5 108 23.0 82.9 31.28 27.27 3.91 3.20 8.23

Season 6 15 86 16.1 81.6 29.99 27.80 3.11 3.16 9.76

Season 7 8 99 18.5 83.5 30.83 28.18 3.74 2.99 8.18

Season 8 5 108 21.7 85.7 32.34 27.56 3.73 2.91 10.32

Season 9 11 94 15.9 82.8 29.34 28.82 3.34 2.98 8.37

Season 10 7 104 19.6 81.1 30.89 27.55 3.59 3.40 8.96

Season 11 24 57 14.1 81.0 25.10 33.70 2.6 3.70 9.04

Top Draft picks

Season 1: Steven Stamkos, C, current age 32. Games played: 883; points: 1,086; plus-minus +13

Season 2: Karri Ramo, G, age 30. GP: 642; Save Pct. 89.3

Season 3: Seth Jones, D, age 28. GP: 651; points: 210; 14

Season 4: Sami Vatanen, D, age 30. GP: 612; points: 224; -3

Season 5: Nicolas Aube-Kubel, RW, age 24.

Season 6: Adam Lowry, LW, age 27. GP 268, Points 73, +36

Season 7: Frank Vatrano, RW, age 26. GP 315, Points 65, plus-minus +11

Season 8: Lias Andersson, C/LW, age 22.

Season 9: Thomas Spelling, RW, age 26. GP: 241, Points 61, -10

Season 10: Vitali Kravtsov, RW, age 21.

Season 11: Trevor Zegras, C/W, age 19.

Season 12: John Marino, D, age 22.

Trade History

Season 1 (picks without years listed are from initial draft)

Traded Round 3 pick (used to draft Brent Seabrook) and Round 4 pick (Jason Spezza ) to Bern for Claude Giroux

Traded Round 7 pick (Slava Voynov), Round 10 pick (Trevor Daley) and 2013 Rd 2 pick (Erik Ersberg) to Madrid for Max Pacioretty

Season 2

Traded Josh Gorges to Prague for Jared Spurgeon

Season 3

Traded 2014 Rd 2 pick (traded later) (Hunter Shinkaruk) to Minsk for Jonas Holos

Season 4

Traded Travis Zajac to Helsinki for Kyle Clifford and Gareth Roberts.

Season 5

Traded Max Pacioretty to Moscow for Darnell Nurse, 2016 Round 1 pick (later traded to Copenhagen – Marten Madsen) and 2017 Round 1 pick (Adam Lowry)

Traded 2016 Round 1 pick (Linus Klasen) to Gothenburg for Zach Parise

Traded Dougie Hamilton, Gareth Roberts and 2016 Round 1 pick (Moscow’s, later traded to Bratislava – Marten Madsen) to Copenhagen for Shea Weber

Traded Claude Giroux to Edinburgh for John Tavares

Transactions after the start of Season 5:

Claimed Mike Ribeiro (waivers)

Signed Hayden Hawkey (free agent)

Claimed Jordan Caron (waivers)

Traded Joe Thornton to Bern for Evgeny Kuznetsov and Mats Rosselli Olsen

Traded 2017 Round 3 pick (Melker Karlsson) to Moscow for Aleksey Kalyuzhny

Traded Jacob De La Rose to Copenhagen for Clarke MacArthur

Season 6

Traded Kyle Brodziak and 2018 Round 1 pick (Jaccob Slavin) to Copenhagen for Joe Pavelski and 2018 Round 3 pick (Bern’s originally – Max Jones)

Traded 2017 Round 2 pick (Colin White) to Minsk for 2017 Round 2 pick (Mathew Barzal) and 2017 Round 3 pick (Evgeny Svechnikov)

Traded Adam Lowry to Stockholm for Marcus Foligno

After Season 6 started:

Traded Clarke MacArthur to Dublin for 2018 Round 2 pick (Frank Vatrano)

Claimed Matt Martin on waivers

Season 7

Traded Nick Bjugstad to Milan for Niklas Danielsson

Traded 2020 Round 3 pick (Maxim Sushko) to Belfast for Matt Moulson

Traded Marcus Foligno, Darnell Nurse and 2019 Round 3 pick (Tyler Parsons) to St. Petersburg for Wayne Simmonds and 2019 Round 2 pick (Berlin’s) (later traded and used to pick Filip Hronek)

Traded Emerson Etem and Magnus Paajarvi to Dublin for Ryan Kesler
Traded Matt Martin (later reacquired off waivers) to Dublin for Brendan Perlini

Traded Evgeny Kuznetzov and 2019 Round 2 (Berlin’s) pick (Filip Hronek) to Berlin for 2019 Round 1 pick (Casey Mittelstadt)

Season 8

Traded Damon Severson and 2021 Round 3 pick (Jet Woo) to London for Dion Phaneuf and Michael Grabner

Traded 2019 Round 2 pick (Nikita Zaitsev) to Munich for 2020 Round 2 pick (Isaac Ratcliffe)

Traded Yannik Weber to Dublin for 2021 Round 3 pick (later traded in Vanier deal (Lukas Dostal))

Season 9

Traded Dion Phaneuf and 2021 Round 3 (Dublin’s) pick (later traded to Minsk (Lukas Dostal) to Dublin for 2020 Round 2 pick (Alexis Vanier)

Traded Seth Jones and 2022 Round 2 pick to Copenhagen for Andre Burakovsky and Jonathan Drouin

Traded Ryan Kesler to Helsinki for 2022 Round 3 pick

Traded 2021 Round 2 pick (Akil Thomas) to Berlin for Talgat Zhailauov

Traded 2022 Round 3 pick to Minsk for Luke Adam

Season 10