GM: Carl Choiniere Coach: Paul Maurice Last season: 4th overall. In playoffs, defeated Helsinki; lost to Minsk Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 16 to Season 17) In: Yegor Sharangovich (trade), Aliaksei Protas (trade), Carl Dahlstrom (free agent), Leon Draisaitl (free agent), Diego Kostner (free agent) Out: Alexandre Carrier (trade), Andreas Johnson (free agent), Thomas Spelling (trade), Martin Necas…
GM: Dennis Sullo Coach: Bruce Cassidy Last season: 16th overall. In playoffs, lost to Berlin. Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 16 to Season 17) In: Philip Tomasino (trade), Adam Lowry (free agent), Jonas Siegenthaler (free agent), Jayden Struble (free agent), Jordan Spence (draft) Out: Jake Debrusk (trade), Morgan Riely (bought out), Mark Scheifele (free agent), Victor Mete (free…
GM: Daniel Podmanicky Coach: Joel Quenneville Last season: 11th overall. In playoffs, defeated Bern; lost to Berlin Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 16 to Season 17) In: Hampus Lindholm (trade), Martin Jones (trade), Juraj Slafkovsky (trade), Tyson Foerster (trade), Ethan Bear (trade), Martin Necas (trade), Alexis Lafreniere (trade), Emil Bemstrom (trade), Martin Pospisil (draft), Nils Aman…
GM: Jukka Tuominen Coach: Brent Sutter Last season: 7th overall. In playoffs, lost to Oslo. Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 16 to Season 15) In: Andres De La Garma (free agent), Patrik Laine (trade), Stanislav Vrhel (trade), (Dmitri Voronkov (free agent), Henry Thrun (free agent), Rafael Harvey-Pinard (free agent), Valtteri Puustinen (free agent), Michikazu Hata (free agent), Out: Frederik…
GM: Petr Barilla Coach: John Tortorella Last season: 22nd overall. Did not make playoffs Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 16 to Season 17) In: Jakub Vrana (free agent), Alexandre Carrier (free agent), Peyton Krebs (waivers), Mason Marchment (free agent), Tim Bozon (free agent) Out: Filip Forsberg (free agent), Andres De La Garma (free agent), Jared McCann (free agent), Brendan…
The Season 17 draft ended this morning and management types immediately scurried off to their offices to dive into the first free agent period. There are some big names looking for new homes. But a caution to Website GMs: Rule 7 is in effect, meaning older (Type 3) players signed at this stage will receive…
Center Macklin Celebrini’s debut in the NHL with the San Jose Sharks will be eyed by new Madrid Royals GM Mikko Mantykoski with great interest. On his first day on the job, Mantykoski picked Celebrini with the first overall pick in the Season 17 EURO draft, after division realignment allowed Madrid to get into the…
MILAN, Italy – The Season 17 EURO Draft will get under way tonight with some real intrigue surrounding the first few picks. Every year in this virtual evolution league, the main question is how much faith can you put in a prospect because he will be stuck with his first qualifying NHL season as the…
This will be news to some and a review for others, but here are some unique rules we have in the EURO League. Off Season Expansion? Very few leagues in Websim add new franchises and expand, but ours came close to being able to do that a couple times. If that opportunity before the start…
Seventy-four players have announced their retirement from the EURO League, including several former all-stars. Anze Kopitar, a center for Moscow, Athens and Helsinki, retires as the 10th leading scorer in league history. he was named to the All-Star Game seven times. Jamie Benn, a legend in Edinburgh, was a 6-time all-star and retires as the…
