Four teams remain to battle for the Season 8 EURO Cup and three of them were in this very place a season ago. The Southern Conference final features Lisbon HC versus the Bratislava Eagles. Last year, Lisbon swept the Eagles, winning the first two games in Bratislava, both in overtime, with Jared Spurgeon and Max…
Most of the players in the World Cup of Hockey will have their nation’s name and flag somewhere on their uniforms, reminding them to show the world that their people play the best hockey on the planet. But the Team Europe guys are basically trying to shut everyone else up. They come from Slovenia,…
If you are into stats, here are a few deep ones reflecting the season that just ended. Most points per minute played (minimum 41 games) Gustav Nyquist, Minsk, 0.069 Jake Guentzel, London Kyle Turris, Paris Sam Gagne, London Nicklas Backstrom, Minsk Nick Bjugstad, Milan Nikolaj Ehlers, Helsinki Cory Conacher, Prague Thomas Powell, Minsk Jamie McGinn,…
Click on the link for a detailed look at who will be available for the nest EURO League draft, to be conducted after the completion of the playoffs. 9 draft guide Here is a partial sample to whet your appetites: Here is a link to the league’s first and only other draft guide (for Season…
Some teams are done and others have up to three games to play, but two individual EURO records and one team record will be broken once Season 8 comes to an end. Best Save Percentage: Jimmy Howard, the goalie in Athens, will better the save percentage record he set three seasons earlier when he was…
Rose’s niece Taylor lives in the Toronto area and was able to sneak into Team Canada’s practice facility Friday where try-outs began for the nation’s World Cup team. Canada has to be considered one of the favorites for the trophy even after you take out all the players who are 25 or younger (those players…
Deciding who would manage Team Finland in the World Cup of Hockey was an easy matter. On Wednesday, 6-7, 235-pounds of Olli Malmivaara walked into League Commissioner Chuck Massaro’s office and said, “I want to play in the tournament and I want my GM to be boss.” Ninety-one seconds later, Massaro announced tha t Paja Jansson…
Sepp Blatter assembled a small group of shoppers and tourists from outside the league office near the corner of Strobelgasse and Schulerstade in Vienna Tuesday to make an announcement concerning the upcoming World Cup of Hockey. “We are awarding Team Czech team to Chuck … (no applause from the crowd) “ announced the EURO League’s…
Not long after the new GM of Team USA left the building Saturday, the GM of the Stockholm Eagles, Michael Sauer, walked in the league office building in the capital of music. Michael’s assistant, an older Swedish lady named Berit, who has been acquainted with Accounant Rose for a long time, was also with him.…
Recently, it was announced that three GMs made the trip to the league office in Vienna and each one of them was assigned to a team. We have later learned thar accountant Rose was disappointed that none of the GMs had brought any gifts as a token of appreciation of her hard work for the…
