GM: Dennis Sullo (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Peter Laviolette (replaced Paul MacLean after Season 4) Last season: 14th overall, lost to Paris in Round 1 Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Ilya Kovalchuk (trade), Michael Frolik (free agent), Mark Giordano (free agent), Ben Smith (waivers), Joe Colborne (free agent), Jeff Zatkoff (free agent)…
Minsk 5, Edinburgh 2 – Nicklas Backstrom scored twice and defenseman Maxim Chudinov added three assists in another convincing Minsk win. The Hussars outshot the Capitals 43-23. Backstrom seemed to overwhelm Sidney Crosby in the game. Likewise for their lines. Edinburgh’s top three seemed to be on the defensive most of the night, although Crosby and…
GM: Bryan Camara (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Willie Desjardins (Replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 4; Laviollette replaced Todd McLellan after Season 3) Last season: 15th overall (Lost to Berlin in Round 1) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Dustin Byfuglien (free agent), Nick Bjugstad (trade), Magnus Paajarvi (trade ), Emerson Etem (trade), Marcus…
Milan 4, Stockholm 2 – Almost all phases of Milan’s game were working Sunday as they outshot Stockholm 42-18 in northern Italy. Luca Sbisa was voted as the game’s first star with a goal and an assist. His goal opened the scoring in the game and it was his first of the season. Sbisa has…
GM: David Bell (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock (replaced Bruce Boudreau after Season 6, who replaced Randy Carlyle after Season 3) Last season: 19th overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Brent Seabrook (free agent), Niklas Danielsson (trade), Mark Letestu (free agent), Brandon McMillan (free agent), Mikko Rantanen (trade) In: …
Athens 5, Bratislava 3 – The new-look Athens franchise got off on the right foot by scoring five goals against the man who was their starting goalie the year the league began. Corey Crawford, 33, has appaered in three games this season for Bratislava and has stopped only 78.3 percent of the shots against him. On…
In Moscow’s last game, Chris Stewart delivered a high hit against the boards on Stockholm defenseman John Klingberg. The Eagle player went to ice hard and had to be helped off the ice. Now Klinberg is injured and out of Stockholm’s lineup and Stewart has been issued a one-game suspension. “We have to make…
Lisbon 6, Paris 1 – Sacre bleu! Les Rouges Eiffels have lost two home games in a row. That basically never happens. Lisbon HC rolled over Paris after getting an early tally from Steven Stamkos and then two more goals before the end of period one. Paris was their own worst enemy in this one,…
GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history – Took over 1 game into Season 6) Coach: Patrick Roy (replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 16th overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Niko Hovinen (trade), Calvin Pickard (trade), Andrey Bykov (trade), Andrej Sekera (free agent), Marcel Hossa (free agent) In: Aleksander Barkov (trade),…
Munich 4, Belfast 3 – It took nine games, but Daniel and Henrik Sedin finally combined for a Munich goal and that seemed to wake up the slumping Dire Wolf and catapult the team to a win over visiting Belfast. Munich got two big goals in the second period from Nikita Zadorov and Talgat Zhailauov…
