How fitting is it that the winning goal in Game 7 of the Season 16 EURO Cup finals was scored by John Tavares, the league’s all-time leading scorer? Even though he’s won nine individual trophies, this is the first time he’s been on a champion team. When John Legend scored, Berlin went up 3-0 and…
Quick Glance: Season 16’s finale brings together some very familiar friends/foes. General Managers Igor Kirunov of Minsk and Guybrush Threepwood of Berlin are both charter members of the the EURO League. And their coaches, Dave Tippett of the Hussars and Adam Oates of the Smurfs have guided their clubs for more than a decade each…
In some ways, Jonathan Quick was like the EURO League’s Pete Rose. They were both arguably the best at their position but were still dogged by questions about whether or not they should be in the Hall of Fame. Rose, an American baseball great whose gambling got him into trouble with the league, died Monday…
Quick Glance: In Round 2, Munich surprised Paris with a win in France and then won all three games in Bavaria. Paris is a tough place to play but this season, Berlin has put up a legendary 33-2-6 home record. The Smurfs played 10 playoff games against Zurich and Kosice and were held under 4…
Quick Glance: It shouldn’t be a surprise that the top two Northern Conference teams in the regulation season will meet for the right to play for the Cup. Both of these general managers know how to win and both have multiple Cup wins on their resume. In the regular season, both clubs were at or…
A fourth class of candidates has been announced for induction into the EURO Hockey League Hall of Fame. General Managers will receive the official ballot in the e-mail accounts associated with their Websim account. Three players and a “builder” were the first four people voted into the Hall of Fame, however no one made it…
Quick Glance: For a few years, the Kosice franchise’s recipe for success has been puck pursuit and tough team defense, mixed with the hope they can score just when they need to. That plan has them into the conference semi-finals against the best team in the South. Berlin’s game plan under Coach Adam Oates and…
Quick Glance: Munich played methodically and beat Lisbon in five low-scoring games to advance. They were patient and waited for high-percentage scoring chances, which is evidenced by the fact seven of their players had shooting percentages of 14.3 or higher. Paris took a different tact, getting by Bratislava in a wild, free-for-all series that came…
Quick Glance: Belfast has its work cut out for them against the league’s top team. If the Giants look back to how they played Copenhagen in five regular season games … they will get scared. The Giants dropped three tight games on home ice and lost by three goals in both visits to Denmark. The…
Quick Glance: This series pits the teams that finished the regular season third and fourth overall against each other. Tickets are going very fast for these games. Oslo barely got past Helsinki in the first round, and considering Minsk had the best defense in the league and the second most productive offense, the Hussars could…
