A year after jumping up 5 spots to win the top pick in the Season 11 EURO draft, the Gothenburg Frolunda did it again this season. Offensive defenseman Adam Fox is the prize this season. Fox, who in his NHL career was a trade acquisition by the New York Rangers, enters the EURO League with…
Half of the teams in the EURO League go into Season 12 without a coach under contract. Adam Oates, Michel Therrien, Barry Trotz, John Stevens, Willie DesJardins, Dave Tippett and newcomer to the coaching ranks Rod Brind’Amour will be the most sought-after bench bosses to fill the vacancies.
Fifty-four players have decided they aren’t good enough anymore – or at least willing – to play in the EURO League and they’ve retired. For some, the decision is not a surprise. They were never good enough in the first place. Others, however, were in lineups a few weeks ago. One player who decided to…
The last game couldn’t have been any closer, but for the second time in two years, Copenhagen beat Berlin in the EURO Cup Finals. In doing so, Copenhagen becomes the second team in league history to win back-to-back Cups. Belfast accomplished the feat in seasons 4 and 5. For the Smurfs, the feeling has to…
How they got here Berlin finished 8th overall and got to the Finals by beating Madrid 4-1; then Paris 4-2; and then Bratislava 4-3 with Anders Lee scoring the game-winner in the third period. This is the Smurfs’ fourth trip to the Cup Finals. They lost all three previous times – to Belfast in Seasons…
Defensemen Kevin Dallman and Alex Goligoski were teammates in Copenhagen for 53 games of Season 2 when Dallman started his EURO career, but before that season ended, Dallman had been traded away. Suddenly, they are teammates again. Rather than call on farm team members Steve Oleksy or Sam Girard to replace injured Kris Letang, Paris…
Northern Conference Minsk Hussars 5th seed Top G – Simeon Varlamov Belfast Giants 4th seed Top G – Nico Hovinen Season Series: 4-0 Belfast Key matchups: These two teams are historically the two most successful clubs. Belfast has 4 Cups and Minsk has 2. Belfast has the forwards to score on anyone (Duchene, Landeskog, MacKinnon…
Southern Conference Madrid Royals 5th seed Top G – Robin Lehner Berlin Smurfs 4th seed Top G – Calvin Pickard Season Series: 3-1 Berlin Key matchups: Fans in Berlin will be booing former Smurf Tyler Ennis when he’s skating on Madrid’s top line with Evander Kane and Sean Couturier, but if the Smurfs’ top defensemen…
OSLO – For most of the Season 11 All-Star Game, outdoors in Oslo, the fans treated it like a huge party, and so did the players. There was a lot of smiling and unnecessary passes, and no checking and shot blocks. Until the final 4 minutes when it got almost tense. The Northern Conference had…
Most Accuracy Shooter For the sixth time in 11 seasons, Erik Karlsson has claimed the Most Accurate Shooter title in the Season 11 EURO All-Star Game Skills Competition. He has also finished second once and third once, which means he has failed to make into the top 3 just 3 time in 11 seasons. On…
