Farm Club: Stockholm Sun Towers GM: Michael Sauer (third GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Johnston (replaced Bob Hartley after Season 4) (Hartley replaced Claude Noel after Season 3) Last season: 9th overall, (In playoffs, defeated Moscow; lost to Minsk) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Bobby Ryan (free agent) , Bryan Little (free agent), Keith Yandle (free agent), …
Farm Club: Venice (Italy) Griffins GM: Dennis Sullo (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Peter Laviolette (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 4) Last season: 24th overall; out of playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Artem Anisimov (free agent), Mikael Granlund (free agent), Ryan Suter (free agent), Jaroslav Halak (bought out), Joonas Donskoi (free agent), Marek Mazanec (bought out) In: Carey…
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: 7th overall. In playoffs, lost to Lisbon Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Erik Karlsson (trade), Gabriel Landeskog (trade), Patrik Berglund (free agent), Blake Wheeler (free agent), Marc-Andre…
Season 9 of the EURO League gets started Saturday evening with six games across Europe. One of the match-ups that night will feature the league’s best looking players (Bratislava Eagles) versus the league’s ugliest players (Berlin Smurfs). That game will also be Tyler Ennis’ first game in Bratislava wearing something that is not an Eagles…
Farm Club: Hamburg (Germany) Freezers GM: Grant Sayle (9th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Sulllivan (replaced Craig Berube after Season 6) Last season: 20th overall, (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Chris Campoli (free agent) In: Attila Adorjan (draft), Linus Higberg (draft), Marian Studenic (draft) In Place (Key players signed past Season 9) David…
Owner: Sophia Rousseau, CEO, ELITE Models (Top Model agency in Paris) Farm Club: Paris Francais Volants GM: Tim Norelco (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Michel Therrien (replaced Randy Cunneyworth after Season 2) Last season: 8th overall (In playoffs, lost to Bratislava) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Alexander Semin (free agent), Mike Richards (free agent), Steve Olesky (free agent), Tom…
Team Owner: C. Montgomery Burns, owner, Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Farm Club: Tottenham Templars GM: Eric Smith (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Barry Trotz (replaced Darryl Sutter after Season 7, who replaced Ken Hitchcock after Season 6) Last season: 21st overall; did not make the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Kevin Shattenkirk…
Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo GM: Ron Lavallee (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 11th overall (In the playoffs, lost to Stockholm) Ins and Outs: (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Dennis Seidenberg (retired), Mark Fayne (free agent), Roman Lyubimov (free agent), Eddie Lack (free agent) In: Keith Kincaid (free agent), Layne Viveiros (draft), Eetu Luostarinen (draft), Zachary Lauzon (draft)…
Farm Club: MAC Budapest (Hungary) GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Guy Boucher (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 8, who replaced Patrick Roy after Season 7; Roy replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 18th overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: James Neal (free agent), Cory Conacher (free agent) In: Miro Aaltonen…
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 Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault (replaced Darryl Sutter) Last…
