Owner: Jim Balsillie, Canadian businessman Farm Club: Monaco Gamblers GM: Stephen R (4th GM in team’s history) Coach John Tortorella Last season: 2nd overall, (In playoffs, defeated Geneva, then lost to Lisbon) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: Loui Eriksson (free agent), Jason Pominville (free agent), Derek Ryan (free agent), Bobby Butler (free…
Farm Club: Cool Mokum Amsterdam (Netherlands) GM: Gayle Rock (Fourth GM in team’s history) Coach: Bruce Cassidy (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 7; MacLean replaced Dave Tippett after Season 4; Tippett replaced Alain Vigneault after Season 3) Last season: 17th overall, (Missed the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 8 to Season 9) Out: James Van Riemsdyk (free agent), Ryan Murray (trade), Vladimir Sobotka (free agent),…
Investments: We will advance to the next step Friday night or when the checkboxes are 24/24. If you need more time, please let me know. Team Profiles: I plan to continue my tradition of writing team profiles and am hoping to post two per day in no particular order. I could post the first one…
Two key members of the Cup-winning Minsk Hussars, and a top-line winger for the runners-up in Bratislava will be the top names available when “Free Agent Frenzy” gets under way Sunday night (or earlier). The EURO League has advanced and 24 players with OV ratings of 80 or higher will be available on the free…
General managers in the EURO League seem to be onto a trend in Websim world. They showed during the Season 9 draft they have a lot of faith in prospects without attributes. In fact when Minsk GM Igor Kirunov went to the podium to make the final two picks, there was just one prospect remaining…
Antoine Morand is used to scoring points at a rate of about one per game. He may not be able to continue scoring at that rate with the Anaheim Ducks in his first season when he gets his attributes, but boy, Zurich Lions fans would be so happy if he did. Morand plays center, is a…
At the end of the first round, the champs took a defensive forward who can help pretty soon, and at the end of Round 2, General Manager Igor Kirunov went with one of the youngest players he could get. Alex Formenton, 18, scored about a point per game with the London Knights of the Ontario…
Big, quick and skilled is how scouts describe Maxime Comtois, a Canadian left wing who was previously drafted by the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks. He just because property of the Bern Interrail. With the Victoriaville Tigres in the QMJHL, Comtois saw his production drop a little from 2016 to 2017, but then he saw it improve…
Jack Studnicka’s point totals with the Oshawa Generals went up from 52 to 72 in the last year and he was named captain of the team. Belfast Giants General Manager Chris Patton noticed and made the 6-1 Canadian center the 43rd player taken in the draft. Studnicka joins Brett Howden, Cal Foote and Jacob Larsson…
Picks 36 through 42: Geneva – The Generals’ current goalies – Frederik Andersen and Michael Hutchinson – are 29 and 27 with 19-year-old Filip Gustavsson in the system as well. Ivan Nalimov, a 21-year-old Russian, was drafted at pick 36 and he and Gustavsson will be teammates vying for the top job once Andersen vacates…
