GM: Trevor Grimm (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Barry Trotz Last season: 9th overall; In playoffs, lost to Moscow in Round 1. Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Thomas Vanek (free agent), Mark Stuart (free agent) In: Niklas Hjalmarsson (free agent), Tyler Jost (draft), Jakob Forsbacka Karlsson (draft), Scott Laughton (draft) In Place (Key…
GM: Igor Kirunov (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Dave Tippett (replaced Guy Boucher, who replaced Lindy Ruff, who replaced Claude Julien) Last season: Cup champions, 1st overall, (defeated Dublin, Gothenburg, Belfast and then Paris in the finals) Ins and Outs (Season 6 to Season 7) Out: Tony Martensson (free agent), Kyle Quincey (free agent) In: German Rubtsov (draft), Yegor…
Jonathan Quick, Evgeny Malkin and Jimmy Howard all decided to go back to their powerful teams to put a slight damper on the free agent frenzy period in the EURO League. Still, teams like St. Petersburg, Bern, Munich and others made headlines and created excitement in their cities. For the first time since they played together…
Superstar goalie Jonathan Quick leads a dandy cast of free agents that will be available to EURO general managers early next week when “free agent frenzy” occurs. Most of the bigger names are coming from the Southern Conference. Quick is a bonafide superstar in the league (94 OV) with three individual regular season trophies under his belt, including the…
After moving up from seventh to first in the EURO League’s Season 7 draft, the Geneva Generals cemented a spot on their blueline for now and the long-term in selecting Canadian Colton Parayko first overall. Parayko has no deficiencies aside from inexperience and he was blessed with 6-6 size and exceptional hockey smarts. He could step right into…
Twelve players who have retired in the last two seasons may be added to the next Hall of Fame election ballot, joining 10 players who did not get voted in the last time an election was held. Every two seasons, the league will vote to see if anyone should be inducted into the Hall of Fame…
The EURO League draft will be coming up at the end of the month and then in October, it will be the four stages of free agent signings. For some teams, it will be a scary time, as some key pieces of puzzles decide if salary offers will be good enough to keep them with…
Lindy Ruff was happy when he won the Coach of the Year Trophy in Season 3 when he was with the Edinburgh Capitals, and it was probably a joy to hold the same trophy this year as coach of the Minsk Hussars, but he seemed downright giddy when he raised the EURO Cup for the cheering…
It looks like either Paris or Minsk will be the next home of the EURO Cup. The Rouges Eiffels and Hussars are both enjoying 3-0 leads in their conference finals series. Berlin and Belfast will have to pull off miraculous runs – four straight wins – to change things. Minsk-Belfast series Minsk has looked unbeatable against Belfast,…
The second round of the 2017-18 playoffs are in the books and the four teams that finished highest in the regular season have moved on to their conference finals. As I did after the first round, I have named players who had the best round. Chuck’s Second-Round Heroes First Team F- Derek Stepan, Madrid –…
