Owner: Sophia Rousseau, CEO, ELITE Models (Top Model agency in Paris) Farm Club: Paris Francais Volants GM: Donald Lockhart (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Michel Therrien (replaced Randy Cunneyworth after Season 2) Last season: 3rd overall (In playoffs, defeated Bern, lost to Berlin) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: T.J. Oshie (free agent), Rasmus Andersson (waivers), Marius Holtet (free agent),…
Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo GM: Brett Warbeck (6th GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 15th overall (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs: (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Boone Jenner (traded), Matthias Bieber (free agent), Wei Yang Zhang (free agent), Frederik Gauthier (free agent), Jean-Francois Berube (free agent) In: Ryan Johansen (free agent), Jordan Binnington (waivers),…
Team owner: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Federal Railways – SBB) CEO is Andreas Meyer. Farm Club: EHC Vaduz (Lichtenstein) GM: Paja Jansson (6th GM in team’s history) Coach: Willie DesJardins (replaced Jim Montgomery after Season 11)(Montgomery replaced Doug Weight after Season 10) (Weight replaced Mike Babcock after Season 9) Last season: 19th overall; (in playoffs, lost to Paris) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Derek…
Team owner: Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, Queen of Spain. A former television journalist, she married King Felipe VI Farm Club: HC Barcelona GM: Tony B (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Dan Bylsma Last season: 10th overall. (In playoffs, lost to Berlin) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Brenden Dillon (buy out), Simon Despres (buy out), Dylan Olsen (waivers), Olivier Roland…
Farm Club: Cool Mokum Amsterdam (Netherlands) Owner: Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo, a London-based company that owns Dublin’s Guinness Brewery. GM: Steve Stringer (Sixth GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Johnston (replaced Bruce Cassidy after Season 10) (Cassidy replaced Paul MacLean after Season 7; MacLean replaced Dave Tippett after Season 4; Tippett replaced Alain Vigneault after Season 3) Last season: 23rd overall, (Missed the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Jakob Silfverberg (free agent), Dustin…
Owner: Sara Sampaio, Portuguese super model Farm Club – HC Porto (Portugal) GM: Bryan Camara (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Barry Trotz (replaced Willie Desjardins after Season 11) (Desjardins replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 4) (Laviollette replaced Todd McLellan after Season 3) Last season: 24th overall. Did not make playoffs. Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season…
Owner: Ralph Schwarz, from the Schwarz-Lidl discount store family, hockey and Alpine skiing fan extraordinaire. Farm Club: Hamburg (Germany) Freezers GM: Jared Smith (10th GM in team’s history) Coach: Jim Montgomery (replaced Mike Babcock after Season 11) (Babcock replaced Paul Maurice during Season 11); Maurice replaced Mike Sulllivan after Season 9; Sullivan replaced Craig Berube after Season 6) Last season: 17th overall, (In…
Team owner: Neil Patrick Harris, American actor and Smurf fanatic Farm Club: Kolner Haie GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates (replaced Dale Hunter after Season 2) Last season: 8th overall (In the playoffs, defeated Madrid, defeated Paris, defeated Bratislava, lost to Copenhagen in Finals) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Ryan Murray (free…
Owners – Two of Northern Ireland’s most famous sons: actor James (Jimmy) Nesbitt (probably best known internationally for his part as one of the dwarves in the Hobbit trilogy); and model/actor/’GLAMOUR sexiest man of 2017′ Jamie Dornan of “Fifty Shades” fame. Farm Club: Belfast City Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault (replaced Darryl Sutter) …
Farm Club – Glasgow (Scotland) Claymores GM: John Charles (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Bob Boughner (replaced Tom Rowe after Season 11) (Rowe replaced Bob Hartley after Season 8) (Hartley replaced Randy Carlyle after Season 5) (Carlyle replaced Lindy Ruff) Last season: 16th overall. Did not make playoffs. Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12)…
