About the EURO Hockey League

The EURO Hockey League is one of several leagues on the WebsimHockey.com. It began with a series of cities written by Richard Hamel and expanded and revised by Chris Patton (The Finnish Flash). The founder of the league was Chuck Massaro (lilgen) and the charter members of the league and the cities they selected were:

Athens – Sports Monkey – Terry Moutafis (2nd owner – Marcel Kuchta) (3rd owner – Paul Fordsly)(4th owner – Justin Haines) (5th owner – Simo V) (6th owner – Stephen R) (7th owner – Petr Barilla)
Belfast – The Finnish Flash – Chris Patton (2nd owner – Svein Haugsmoen)
Berlin – Winfling (Guybrush Threepwood)
Bern – skates21 (Adam R); (2nd owner -myli Joe Page) (3rd owner – Jeremy Ducaine) (4th-owner – Donald Lockhart) (5th owner – Randy Rock) (6th owner – Paja Janssen) (7th owner – Eigil Tennes) (8th owner – Shalom Connell)
Bratislava – lilgen – Chuck Massaro
Copenhagen – dcallow – Dylan Callow (2nd owner – Martin Sayle)
Dublin – ty00ty (2nd owner – Miester) (3rd owner – Brad Denea) (4th owner – Gayle Rock )(5th owner – Jack Eichel)(6th owner – Steve Stringer) (7th owner – Dennis Lee)
Edinburgh – Pensctm (2nd owner – Marc Peninou) (3rd owner – John Charles jcc1644 )
Gothenburg – rztipping (2nd owner – GM Legge – Chris Legge)(3rd owner – Austin Dwyer) (4th owner – Jason Haupt)
Helsinki – KJ Dobbs (2nd owner – oldtimehockey – Trevor Grimm)(3rd owner-Michael Cronebach)(4th owner -Jukka Tuominen)
Kosice (formerly Geneva) – ryguy007 (Ryan Jones) (2nd owner – Joonas Komppa ) (3rd owner – Stas Pavlov) (4th owner – Andy Rolling) (5th owner – David Franck) (6th owner – Jory S) (7th owner – Daniel Podmanicky (moved team to Kosice))
Lisbon (formerly Frankfurt) – Davvon2590 (2nd owner – Sergey Blynskiy) (3rd owner – Fric Jagr) (4th owner – Bryan Camara (moved team to Lisbon)
Liverpool (formerly Hanover from 14 to 16; and Moscow from 1 to 13) – Ezec (2nd owner – mikesixtysix – Michael Banker) (3rd owner – Ronnie Walker) (4th owner – Ron Lavallee) (5th owner – David Reichel) (6th owner – Brett Warbeck) (7th owner – Kent Armstrong) (8th owner – Michel Paradis) (9th owner – Neil Taylor – moved team to Liverpool)
London – mitchellwk (2nd owner – gpaul926 – Geoffrey Paul) (3rd owner – Rodney Carringer) (4th owner -Mike Suk) (5th owner – Eric Smith) (6th owner – Trevor Grimm) (7th owner – Mark Stefanski) (8th owner – Isaac Schwartz) (9th owner – Roger Bowmoore) (10th owner – Jalen Smyth)
Madrid – rjlavoie – Roland Lavoie (2nd owner – Tony B) (3rd owner – Mikko Mantykoski)
Milan – jkellyAT (2nd owner – David Bell)
Minsk – tserberis – Igor Kirunov
Munich – nmddun (2nd owner – jcc1644) (3rd owner – Paulie18) (4th owner – Troy Huzy)(5th owner – Chad Legge)(6th owner – Mike Felter)(7th owner – Rocky H)(8th owner -Eli Broad) (9th owner – Grant Sayle)(10th owner – Jared Smith) (11th owner – Eugene Wilkinson)
Oslo – Coach Frenchy (2nd owner – volcano62) (3rd owner – Chris Lee) (4th owner – Carl Choiniere)
Paris – Kadenella – Ralph Booth (2nd owner – Tim Norelco) (3rd owner – Donald Lockhart) (4th owner – Steve Yung)
Prague – JimmyFresco (2nd owner – Myli Joe Page) (3rd owner – jstups) (4th owner-Axel Bode) (5th owner – Peter Ott)
Stockholm – supersteph (2nd owner – soberboy) (3rd owner- Michael Sauer) (4th owner – Mikko M) (5th owner – Hansi Huber (moved team to Vienna for one season)) (6th owner – Delwin Y)
Tallinn (formerly St. Petersburg and Amsterdam) – Sergei Pevtsov (2nd owner – Mick71 – Michele Castaldini)(3rd owner – Ben Stuller) (4th owner – Frank Petrucci) (5th owner – Ronnie Walker)
Zurich – CAG (2nd owner – CristoWall) (3rd owner – warren pike)(4th owner – dsullo – Dennis Sullo)

Farm clubs: Click here

Division Names

The league’s division names pay tribute to players and pioneers in European hockey history.

John Francis “Bunny” Ahearne (1900-1985).

Born in Wexford, Ireland, Ahearne was instrumental in bringing the sport to Great Britain. He became manager of the Great Britain national team in 1934, helping guide the team to Olympic gold in 1936 and European championships in 1937 and 1938. He was also either president or vice president of the International Ice Hockey Federation for two decades, in the mid 50s to the mid 70s.

Valeri Kharlamov (1948-1981)

The speedy and skilled Kharlamov was born in Moscow to a Russian father and a Spanish mother. Kharlamov was a key member of the power Soviet teams that dominated the international hockey scene in the 1970s. The team won 2 Olympic gold medals and 8 world championships with Kharlamov playing often on the top line with Vladimir Petrov and Boris Mikhailov. In 105 international games, he scored 156 points. With the Red Army team in the Soviet league, he scored 507 points in 438 games. He was killed, along with his wife and her cousin in the 1981 car accident.

Alois Schloder (1947-?)

Schloder, born in Landshut, was a top West German player who helped his country earn a bronze medal in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. He is also a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 2005. He played both forward and defense and in the Bundesliga, with his hometown EV Landshut team, he racked up 496 goals and 457 assists in 806 games. In three Olympics, he scored 12 goals and had 6 assists in 20 games. He was captain of the West German team from 1971-78.

Pavol Demitra (1974-2011)

Demitra was born in Slovakia and began his career playing in the Czechoslavak Extraliga. IN the 9th round of the 1993 NHL draft, he was selected by the Ottawa Senators. His North American career began in the AHL with Prince Edward Island and continued with stints in Las Vegas and Grand Rapids in the IHL and with five NHL teams: Ottawa, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Minnesota and Vancouver. He played 847 NHL games and his best years came with the Blues, with whom he scored personal bests of 37 goals and 93 points. Teams that traded him didn’t get their money’s worth. Players coming back in two trades were Christer Olsson, Patrick O’Sullivan and Trevor Lewis. After his NHL career, Demitra went to Russia to play with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, and he was among the victims of the tragic team plane crash on Sept. 7, 2011.

Division Realignment

At the beginning of Season 17, divisions were realigned to make more sense geographically in the wake of several franschise relocations. Division names were changed to:

English Channel Division (Edinburgh, Belfast, Dublin, London, Paris and Amsterdam)
Scandinavian Division (Copenhagen, Oslo, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Helsinki and Minsk)
German-Slavic Division (Berlin, Hanover, Munich, Prague, Bratislava and Kosice)
Mediterranean Division (Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Zurich, Bern and Athens)

House Rules

Click on this page to see the house rules that have been added to Websim’s standard rules: https://eurohockeyleague.wordpress.com/?s=house+rules

LEAGUE TRIVIA

Who scored the first goal in EURO history?

Jason Spezza, Bern, 48 seconds into the opening game against Geneva and goalie Kari Lehtonen. Assisting on the goal were Ray Whitney and Brent Seabrook.

First playoff goal? David Legwand, St. Petersburg, against London and goalie Marc-Andre Fleury. Assists went to Blake Wheeler and Willie Mitchell.

First hat trick? Jason Spezza, Bern vs. Geneva on the league’s first day.

Who sustained the first injury?

Dan Boyle of Munich, a leg injury in the third period of the Duns’ first game against Athens.

Who was involved in the first fight?

Kyle Clifford of Minsk and Luca Sbisa of London in the first game ever for both teams. Clifford was declared the winner by all observers.

First shutout?

Antti Niemi of the Milan Guerriero shutout the Belfast Giants 2-0 on Oct. 3 (Game calendar). He made 25 saves.

Who was the first woman to make a EURO League team?

Stockholm General Manager Delwin Y drafted Sarah Nurse with the 35th pick in the Season 14 draft. She got into her first game as an injury replacement in the team’s 15th game of the season, a 4-2 loss to visiting Dublin.

First EURO Cup Final teams?

Copenhagen Tridents and Geneva Generals

First EURO Cup champ?

Geneva Generals

First trade?

Bern traded its 8th Round pick in the initial draft, as well as its Round 1 and 2 picks in the Season 2 draft to Bratislava for the Eagles’ Round 5 pick in the initial draft. Bern used the pick to select Kimo Timonen and Bratislava used its picks to acquire Martin Erat, Weiyang Zhang and Leonardo Genoni.

Teams that have made the playoffs every year so far (After season 13)

None. Bratislava made in each of the first 12 seasons but finished 3 points out of the playoffs in Season 13.

Who is the only player to have reached the 100-point plateau in each of the first 6 EURO seasons?

No one accomplished the feat. Steven Stamkos, Frankfurt/Lisbon, reached 100 points in each of the first five seasons. Evgeny Malkin, Paris, had 99 points in Season 2, but 100 or more in all other seasons through the end of Season 6.

Which was the first franchise to relocate?

Frankfurt moved to Lisbon between seasons 4 and 5. It was moved into the Demitra Division at the start of Season 8 after a league-wide vote the season before. Stockholm moved to Vienna for Season 12 and then back to Stockholm the nest season. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the Moscow franchise was moved in protest to Amsterdam, and the Moscow franchise was moved to Hanover.

Who was the first player to be suspended relating to player discipline?

Par Arlbrandt of Milan received a 3-game suspension in Season 5 after an elbow to the head that injured Henrik Zetterberg of Bern.

Which is the first franchise to win the EURO Cup more than once?

Belfast Giants (Seasons 4 and 5, then again in Season 7 and Season 9); Helsinki, Copenhagen and Berlin won it three times. Minsk won the Cup two times.

How many franchises have had just one owner since the start of the league?

Three (Minsk, Berlin and Bratislava)

Which player had the best game, according to Websim Star Points formula?

Near the end of Season 18, Helsinki center Connor McDavid had an 11.6 rating vs. Paris with a +5 (plus/minus) and 6 points (3 goals, 3 assists). Websim added a Stars of the Game point system during our Season 15.