Northern Conference Heading into Game 4 of the Northern Conference playoffs, there are some anxious nerves in the dressing rooms, with a couple of potential upsets brewing. The league’s best team, the Copenhagen Tridents, find themselves trailing 2 games to 1, with another game on foreign soil set for today at 5:30. Vincent Lecavalier has…
Munich 2, Bern 0 Munich leads series 1-0 The good news in Bavaria today is that the beloved Fox, who tied for the top spot in the Southern Conference of the EURO League, won the playoff opener in convincing fashion Thursday by shutting out Bern 2-0. The bad news is that they lost Patrik Elias,…
The playoffs opened Wednesday with three of the four favored teams jumping out to 1-0 leads in their series. Dublin 6, Edinburgh 3 Dublin leads series 1-0 The Scots spent entirely too much time in the penalty box, giving one of the league’s best offenses more ice time and more space. Not a recipe for…
The Berlin Smurfs face a must-win game this evening when they play Madrid, and if they win, they will go into must-pray mode. Currently listed as the starting goalies are Tomas Vokoun for Madrid, and his former backup, rookie Erik Ersberg, who was traded to Berlin this season. Madrid has won two of the teams’…
According to the U.S. government’s weather website, there wasn’t a single earthquake recorded in northern Europe over the last month. But the area around Sweden and Denmark was the epicenter of trade news that shook the hockey world. Trades involving two of the sport’s top forwards – Alexander Ovechkin and Eric Staal – landed them…
By Phelim McAleer The purpose of this article is to aggregate some of the trade rumours and block in order to prepare everyone for the deadline and to facilitate more trades. Trades that happened:Erik Ersberg left Madrid to Berlin for top Dman Brian Campbell and a pick. In a huge trade, Alex Ovechkin and Dave…
The moral of this story is “don’t even try to make sense of it.” The Zurich Lions, under GM Dennis Sullo, have moved up in the overall standings more than any other team has since the end of the first season. They finished 22nd overall in 2012-13 and are currently sixth overall, a jump of…
Может быть, мы могли бы использовать Google Translate лучше общаться. Maybe we could use this space to communicate better. You paste something in a response, and I will go to Google Translate and use it to continue the talk. The WSH website doesn’t recognize Russian letters.
The big 4-0 is a slippery, slippery slope if the WSH attributes can be believed. Three 40-year-olds saw their PO/OV ratings drop 3 points this weekend. Martin Brodeur, goalie for Gothenburg, went down from 85 to 82; Daniel Alfredsson of Milan went from 80 to 77; and Berlin’s Ray Whitney went from 80 to 77.…
The attributes have evolved for every player in the EURO League. Below is a listed that shows how each player’s PO and OV ratings changed. A full spreadsheet showing every attribute was too difficult to read, so it has been reduced to two ratings. The old numbers are on top and the new ones are…
