Quick Glance: For a few years, the Kosice franchise’s recipe for success has been puck pursuit and tough team defense, mixed with the hope they can score just when they need to. That plan has them into the conference semi-finals against the best team in the South. Berlin’s game plan under Coach Adam Oates and…
Quick Glance: Munich played methodically and beat Lisbon in five low-scoring games to advance. They were patient and waited for high-percentage scoring chances, which is evidenced by the fact seven of their players had shooting percentages of 14.3 or higher. Paris took a different tact, getting by Bratislava in a wild, free-for-all series that came…
Quick Glance: Belfast has its work cut out for them against the league’s top team. If the Giants look back to how they played Copenhagen in five regular season games … they will get scared. The Giants dropped three tight games on home ice and lost by three goals in both visits to Denmark. The…
Quick Glance: This series pits the teams that finished the regular season third and fourth overall against each other. Tickets are going very fast for these games. Oslo barely got past Helsinki in the first round, and considering Minsk had the best defense in the league and the second most productive offense, the Hussars could…
One team record was set and two others were tied in the EURO League’s Season 16. Two individual records were also established. Prague will be happy to know the 360 goals they gave up in Season 13 is no longer the record for most goals conceded. Unfortunately, the 362 they gave up this year is.…
Connor McDavid and his linemate in Oslo, Calvin Thurkauf, produced the best single games of the season, according to Websim’s Star Points formula. On Feb. 13 (game calendar) against Dublin, both McDavid and Thurkauf had 3 goals and 3 assists. Thurkauf took 8 shots, McDavid 6. They were both +2 in a close 7-6 win…
Twenty-nine-year-old Attila Adorjan of Minsk has been focused and stubborn enough to record 10 shutouts this season. It’s probably a team defense record as much as a goalie record, but Adorjan could get his name in the record books. The record is 11 shutouts in a season, set by Philipp Grubauer of Paris (Season 11)…
This season, there is no clearcut leader in the race for Rookie of the Year in the EURO League. When the season ends and we move onto the playoffs, the Websim system will ask you to vote for awards and you will see a ballot of five players for every award. The nominees are generated…
The mid-season evolution occurred today in the EURO League, and that usually means the older players had their strength, stamina and speed degrade a bit while the young bucks got a little more experienced and better across the board. The player who degraded the most is 38-year-old David Perron, going from a 71 to a…
Season 16 could be the last hurrah for dozens of the best players the EURO League has ever seen. The first-ever, first-round draft picks are in their late 30s now and their value keeps falling and falling. It won’t be long before great careers end and we will be able to truly see what the…
