GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates Last season: 3rd overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Kris Versteeg (traded), Ryan Wilson (traded), Nate Thompson (free agent, Moscow) In: Ville Peltonen (free agent, from Copenhagen), Leon Draisaitl (draft), David Pastrnak (draft), Carl Soderburg (draft) In Place (Key players…
3 Stand-outs Brent Seabrook, Bern, scored a goal, had 2 assists, 5 hits and was +3 in a 5-3 win in Dublin. Cam Ward, Athens, stopped 39 Edinburgh shots in a 2-0 win. Kari Lehtonen, Geneva, stopped 32 Berlin shots in a 3-0 win in Germany Surprises and Stuff A scoreless tie was highly unexpected…
GM: Michael Banker (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 4th overall, EURO Cup champions Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Chris Higgins (free agent, Frankfurt), Derek Roy (FA, Milan), Alexei Ponikarovsky (FA, Edinburgh) In: Vincent Lecavalier (free agent, from Frankfurt), Nate Thompson (FA, Berlin), Bryan Bickell (FA,…
Season 4 begins today (Aug. 19, 2014) with six games. The most interesting might be the offense-minded Zurich Lions playing in Defense City, Finland. Another interesting matchup comes Wednesday when Belfast tries out its new look lineup at home against the President’s Trophy-winning Paris Rouges Eiffels. And the defending champs, Moscow, open in Oslo on…
GM: Chris Legge (second GM in team’s history) Coach Guy Boucher Last season: 11th overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Eric Gelinas (trade), Morgan Rielly (trade) In: Ryan Suter (trade) In Place (Key players signed past Season 4) Zach Parise, LW; Eric Staal, C;…
Twelve players who were waived by their previous clubs are packing and traveling to their new cities today. In addition, veteran free agent Vinny Lecavalier signed a long-term deal with the EURO Cup champion Moscow Spartak. Here the waived players, arranged by their new team: Athens: Richard Bachman (from Helsinki), Bobby Sanguinetti Bratislava: Riley Nash…
GM: Igor Kirunov (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Lindy Ruff (formerly Claude Julien) Last season: 18th overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Sergei Kostitsyn (trade), Ilya Nikulin (trade), Valeri Nichushkin (trade), Magnus Paajarvi (trade), Nick Bjugstad (trade) In: Michael Del Zotto (trade), Aaron Ekblad (draft), Gustav Nyquist (draft), Ivan Barbashev (draft) In Place (Key…
Many teams have new coaches this season in the EURO Hockey League: Belfast – Alain Vigneault (replaces Darryl Sutter) Bratislava – Brent Sutter (Bruce Boudreau) Copenhagen – Paul Maurice (Brent Sutter) Dublin – Dave Tippett (Alain Vigneault) Edinburgh – Randy Carlyle (Lindy Ruff) Frankfurt – Peter Laviolette (Todd McLellan) Geneva – Darryl Sutter (Joel Quenneville) Milan…
GM: Troy Huzulak (fourth GM in team’s history) Coach: Craig Berube Last season: 5th overall Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: Dion Phaneuf (trade), Joe Thornton (Free agency, Frankfurt), Dan Boyle (FA, Belfast), Ray Whitney (retired), Milan Hejduk (retired), Matt Gilroy, Joe Corvo, Alexandre Picard, Paul Gaustad, Torrey Mitchell In: Mark Giordano (trade),…
GM: Ralph Booth (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Michel Therrien Last season: 1st overall, lost in Cup Finals Ins and Outs (Season 3 to Season 4) Out: None In: Philipp Grubauer (draft), Jared McCann (draft), Thatcher Demko (draft) In Place (Key players signed past Season 4) Corey Perry, RW; Evgeny Malkin, C; Kris Letang, D; Tukkaa…
