Team Owner: Elizabeth II, Queen of England (Purchased after Season 10 from C. Montgomery Burns, owner, Springfield Nuclear Power Plant)
Farm Club: Tottenham Templars
GM: Mark Stefanski (6 GMs in team’s history)
Coach: Paul Maurice (replaced Rod Brind’Amour in Season 11) (Brind’Amour replaced Barry Trotz after Season 10) (Trotz replaced Darryl Sutter after Season 7, who replaced Ken Hitchcock after Season 6)
Last season: 13th overall. (In playoffs, lost to Copenhagen)
Ins and Outs
(Season 11 to Season 12)
Out: Bobby Ryan (free agent), Shea Weber (free agent), Vince Dunn (waivers), Roman Polak (free agent), Renat Mamashev (free agent), Travis Konecny (waivers), Andrew Ladd (free agent), Denis Zaripov (trade), T.J. Brodie (free agent), Cory Conacher (free agent), Jiri Patera (free agent)
In: Brenden Dillon (free agent), Andrew Shaw (free agent), Cal Clutterbuck (free agent), T.J. Oshie (free agent), James Neal (free agent), Olivier Roland (free agent), Mikhail Pashnin (free agent), Olli Malmivaara (free agent), Wayne Simmonds (free agent), Marc-Andre Bourdon (free agent), Paul Stastny (free agent), Chad Johnson (free agent),
In Place
(Key players signed past Season 12)
Dominik Lakatos, C; Martin Jones, G;Alexander Radulov, LW; Jake Guentzel, LW; Mikko Rantanen, RW
Three Questions
- Those guys are tough aren’t they? London’s previous general manager placed a lot of stock in the physical part of the game. Acquiring and playing players like Zac Rinaldo, Milan Lucic, Mikhail Pashnin and Daniel Fernholm will build some fan interest but we’re no so sure it will win games. That said, London almost knocked Copenhagen out of the playoffs in the first round last season. The new GM of this team will have to make sure Coach Paul Maurice practices penalty killing because there will be a lot of London penalties this year. The team was second in the league last season and it looks like they are loaded to challenge for the league record in PIMs.
- How good is this Lakatos kid? Dominik Lakatos has three seasons averaging 85 points behind him now and he is just 21. That should tell you he has a very good chance of being one of the best in league history. He won’t be the fastest player on the ice and he certainly isn’t a big guy, but he has great puck skills and hockey sense. On top of that, Lakatos is becoming a cunning defensive forward. He’s not the only skilled player to look out for when you’re going against London, though. Alexander Radulov is the top scorer and most dangerous offensive threat on the team and Nardo Nagtzaam isn’t a household name, but he is an excellent faceoff winner and he has been steadily improving in this league. After three seasons as a fourth-liner in Belfast, he burst on the scene with Madrid, scoring 32 goals in just 15 minutes of ice time per game. Two years after that, Nagtzaam was in London, reaching a career high in points (73) and building his lifetime turnover ratio to +42.
- How are they on defense? Martin Jones is in his prime and has been very good as the starter in London, especially the last three seasons when his goals against average has been around 2.80 and his save percentage was between 90.7 and 91. Those are good numbers. The defense in front of him will excel at clearing the crease area so Jones can see shots. Brenden Dillon, Daniel Fernholm and Luke Schenn are big, mobile dudes. Keep you head up with them on the ice. Marc-Andre Bourdon and Mikhail Pashnin should top 100 minutes in penalties while making it very difficult for opposing forwards to set up shop in the London zone. Russian Ilya Nikulin is a capable offensive player who led the team’s defensemen in goals (18) and points (42) last season.
History
Season Place PTS PP % PK % SPG SAPG GPG GAPG PIM
Season 1 15 88 14.9 83.5 30.79 29.77 3.07 3.13 10.79
Season 2 23 56 16.2 77.2 26.96 34.29 2.66 3.84 11.24
Season 3 21 75 16.3 75.7 30.24 30.94 3.09 3.51 11.10
Season 4 16 81 16.2 81.5 29.68 31.62 3.12 3.40 8.61
Season 5 10 93 16.6 79.4 28.82 30.26 3.26 3.00 7.99
Season 6 11 89 20.2 81.0 28.93 31.40 3.33 3.33 8.35
Season 7 23 62 13.5 81.0 27.48 32.38 2.60 3.66 7.59
Season 8 21 67 16.2 81.7 26.34 31.51 2.89 3.59 6.06
Season 9 8 97 18.6 83.1 31.23 29.89 3.68 3.18 7.18
Season 10 8 99 19.1 88.1 30.90 29.80 3.52 3.00 7.83
Season 11 13 88 16.6 80.6 31.33 31.12 3.09 3.18 11.63
Top Draft picks
Season 1: Marc-Andre Fleury, G, RETIRED. Games played: 545; Save Pct: 89.5
Season 2: Jimmie Ericsson, LW, age 29. GP 581, Pts 285; -145
Season 3: Braden Holtby, G, age 32. GP 591; Save pct: 90.7
Season 4: Martin Jones, G, age 31. GP 447; Save Pct. 90.5
Season 5: Artemy Panarin, RW, age 31. GP 510; Pts 271; +51
Season 6: Anders Lee, LW, age 30. GP 423; Points 201; +51
Season 7: Ryan Spooner, C, age 28. GP 260, Points 72, -57
Season 8: Jake Guentzel, LW, age 26. GP 316; Pts 122; +37
Season 9: Dominik Lakatos, RW, age 21. GP 241; Pts 256; +36
Season 10: Will Butcher, D, age 24. GP 164; Pts 42; +11
Season 11: Jonathan “Jack” Dugan, RW, age 22.
Season 12: Brendan Brisson, C, age 18.
Trade History
Season 2
Traded Semyon Varmalov to Berlin for Andrey Bykov, Tim Erixon and 2014 Round 2 pick (Robert Hagg)
Traded 2016 Round 3 pick to Minsk for Tobias Stephan
Traded Tobias Stephan to Minsk for 2016 Round 3 pick
* missing two trades, one which sent Bykov to Oslo.
Season 3
Traded Tyler Seguin and Luca Sbisa to Oslo for Pavel Datsyuk and Shea Weber
Traded Braden Holtby to Stockholm for Sam Gagner, Michal Neuvirth and 2015 Round 1 pick (Nikita Kucherov)
Traded Shea Weber to Copenhagen for Kevin Shattenkirk, Teddy Purcell and Carl Gunnarsson
Season 4
Traded Zach Bogosian to Stockholm for Dmitri Orlov and Jake Muzzin
Season 5
Season 6
After Season 6 started:
Traded Erik Forssell and 2018 Round 3 pick (Adam Mascherin) to Berlin for 2018 Round 2 pick (Bern’s – Joonas Donskoi) and 2019 Round 2 pick (Stockholm’s) (Martin Necas)
Season 7
After season started: Traded 2019 Round 2 pick (Klim Kostin) to Berlin for Dion Phaneuf; signed Theo Peckham (free agent), Justin Braun (free agent), lost Ryan Spooner (waivers), lost Joonas Donskoi (waivers)
Season 8
Traded Dion Phaneuf and Michael Grabner to Lisbon for Damon Severson and 2021 Round 3 pick (Jet Woo)
After Season 8 started:
Claimed Jordan Caron (waivers)
Season 9
Traded 2021 Round 3 pick (Mac Hollowell) to Berlin for 2020 Round 3 pick (Eduard Zakharchenko)
Traded Jimmie Ericsson, Damon Severson and 2021 Round 2 pick (Jared McIsaac) to Prague for Justin Schultz and Martin Ruzicka
Season 10
Traded Yegor Milovzorov, Urho Vaakanainen and 2022 Round 1 pick (Tobias Bjornfot) to St. Petersburg for John Carlson
Season 11
Traded Rasmus Ristolainen to Dublin for Vince Dunn and Julien Gauthier
Traded John Carlson to Bern for Radek Faksa and 2022 Round 2 pick (Alexander Khovanov)
Traded Brad Marchand to Munich for Bobby Ryan
Traded Alexander Eder, Brandon Saad and William Nylander to Dublin for Mikko Rantanen, Milan Lucic and Emerson Etem
Traded Taylor Hall and 2023 Round 3 pick (Adam Beckman) to Helsinki for Alexander Radulov, Tyson Jost, Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson, Jaret Anderson-Dolan and 2023 Round 2 pick (Shakir Mukhamadullin)
Traded Jeff Skinner to Madrid for Nardo Nagtzaam and Reto Suri
Traded Artemy Panarin to Oslo for 2023 Round 2 pick (Trevor Kuntar)
Traded Radek Faksa to Copenhagen for 2023 Round 3 pick (Minsk’s) (Gunnarwolfe Fontain)
Traded Chris Kreider to Munich for Shea Weber
Traded Martin Ruzicka to Munich for Marc-Andre Bourdon
Traded Jason Zucker to Edinburgh for Casey Cizikas
Season 12
Traded Danis Zaripov to Athens for 2023 Round 3 pick (Blake Biondi)
