Call it capitalism. Call it greed. But whatever it is, it is suddenly giving EURO League general managers and owners indigestion as they look over their salary charts and wonder how they will possibly keep their star players on their teams. Madrid is wondering if they should cut Shea Weber loose. Bratislava is deciding whether…
The Season 8 EURO Draft is complete and a few teams picked up players that should make the starting lineup a couple of weeks from now. Here’s a team-by-team look, sorted from the first pick on down. This story will be updated, but on no specific schedule. OSLO – The Outlaws jumped over four teams into…
The draft lottery for the EURO League’s Season 8 draft could be held as early as Tuesday*, a fact which surely has some ears perked in Switzerland and the British Isles. The eight teams that finished out of the playoffs last season all still hold their first round picks in the draft and all could…
Matt Duchene will be at Home Depot this week, picking out a new trophy case. The talented center who played a major role in the Belfast Giants’ surge to a third EURO Cup was also named winner of these trophies today: Player of the Year Best Defensive Forward Sportsmanship He doesn’t have a chance to…
The Belfast Giants have skated away with the EURO Cup for the third time in four seasons. In Game 6 of the Finals against a dangerous Lisbon squad, the Giants made the most of their opportunity to end the series by jumping out to a 2-0 lead before Lisbon could get going. Matt Duchene, a…
Belfast made an emphatic statement in Game 5 of the EURO Cup finals in their bid to win the grand prize for the third time in four years. Matt Duchene, who played a major role in the Giants’ outstanding season, was a key weapon Thursday, firing 9 shots on goal and ending up with two…
A 4-3 overtime Lisbon win on Tuesday evened the Cup Finals and turned it into a best two-out-of-three event. The game was as close as a coin flip and the two teams were tied in shots on goal 37-37 when the first overtime period was about to end, but on the next shot, it was…
It’s a big day in Lisbon during the biggest week of the franchise’s history. Lisbon has a chance to even the Finals series 2-2 with a win tonight on home ice. A Giants victory, however, would give the Northern Irish team a 3-1 series lead and Lisbon would be faced with the monumental task of…
Game 1 of the EURO Cup finals started out in jittery fashion, with sloppy play, penalty parades and shaky goaltending, but when the third period rolled around, Belfast was able to clamp things down and skate away with the win, 6-3. Two shorthanded goals scored by Belfast seemed to really deflate and rattle Lisbon. The…
The stage is set for the final series of Season 7 against two fast-paced teams capable of putting up goals in bunches. The Belfast Giants are the favorites to win their third Cup in four seasons, but the underdog role doesn’t seem to bother the surprise of the playoffs – Lisbon H.C. – at all.…
