Owner: Tommy Ahlers, founder & CEO of ZYB, a popular social media & networking site in Denmark. Farm club: Malmo (Sweden) Redhawks GM: Martin Sayle (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock (replaced Paul Maurice after Season 9. Maurice replaced Dave Cameron after Season 7; Cameron replaced Paul Maurice after Season 4; Maurice replaced Brent Sutter after Season 3) Last season: 2nd…
The Madrid Royals made a strong move Sunday, spending $11.3 million to sign free agents Jakob Silfverberg and Nick Bjugstad. Silfverberg, a RW who is now 32, spent his whole career in Dublin. He is a good skater, a four-time 20-goal scorer and he is coming off his career-best point total of 56. Bjugstad, a…
Munich General Manager Jared Smith took his third big and bold stride in a rebuild and suddenly the Red Bulls look like a team that will make noise in Season 12. After signing Thomas Powell and P.K. Subban earlier in free agency the Red Bulls added former Bern star Derek Stepan early Saturday. Stepan was…
What a great couple of days this is going to be for some EURO players. And what stressful times for some general managers. Belfast GM Chris Patton owns the rights to the three top Type 2 free agents and what he decides to do with them will have a lot to say with how close…
The Athens Gods had a dream season, finishing first overall, but the Smurfs were their nightmare in the Southern Conference finals. The biggest Berlin win was in Game 2, when Staffan Kronwall scored a goal to tie it 1-1 and Derek Ryan scored on the third shot in overtime to win it. It was the…
Athens 4, Paris 3 It was one of the closest series in memory and Athens advanced to the conference finals in a real nail-biting tense Game 7 when Brandon Sutter scored one of the biggest goals in franchise history with 1:30 remaining in the first OT period. He also scored the only goal in the…
Berlin 4, Geneva 1 The Generals played a wide-open style but the Smurfs beat them at their own game. Only 2 of the 12 playoff series saw no team scored fewer than 2 goals in a game and Geneva was in both of them. Berlin was just better. At least 8 Smurfs were +4 or…
Here’s a glance at what happened in Round 2 of the playoffs in the Northern Conference: London 4. St. Petersburg 0 The Ice Lords maintained momentum from their first-round sweep of Copenhagen and surprised St. Petersburg in games 1 and 2 in Petrograd. The Ice Lords won by at least 2 goals in every game.…
Minsk and Paris were the only lower-seeded teams to advance into the second round of the EURO playoffs. Here’s a brief look at each first-round series. Belfast 4, Stockholm 2 Stockholm didn’t get its act together until they were down 3-0 in the series. Giants sent the Eagles packing with 3 powerplay goals in Game…
MINSK, Belarus – EURO Commissioner Chuck Massaro has named the coaches for this weekend’s All-Star Game, and keeping with tradition, the choices are odd ones. Two EURO players who are not yet retired will be behind the benches. Belarusian brothers Andrei and Sergei Kostitsyn won’t have far to travel to make the game. Sergei got…
