The start of Season 13 has seen some surprisingly sluggish starts by some teams that did well last year and were expecting better this season. While Madrid and Dublin have soared up the standings, Oslo, Minsk and Bratislava have found themselves mired in the bottom handful of teams. Oslo has to be especially disappointed after…
This page shows 8 random times in league history and doesn’t include every logo ever used. The first map is in the top left and the most recent one – used between Season 12/Season 13 – is on the bottom right. You can click on a map to get a closer look at it.
Loui Eriksson, Joe Pavelski, Rick Nash, Ilya Kovalchuck and Henrik Lundquist are among the biggest of the 64 names added to the retirement list today as the league moved from Season 12 to 13. Even at age 37, Eriksson seemed to have plenty of gas in the tank. With Paris, last season, the left wing…
When it comes time to really think about our Season 13 budgets, it will be the GMs of many of the league’s top teams who will have the hardest thinking to do. Oslo, Belfast, Copenhagen and Berlin all have two or more important players asking for significant pay raises because their Type 2 contracts will…
Now that the NHL’s regular season is over and Websim’s admins have had time to input attributes for players who will play in Websim for the first time, we can get a pretty clear look at the future, especially in a virtual evolution league like the EURO League. Along with Owen Power, Matty Beniers and…
For sure, general managers in the EURO League will have five good choices to vote for when it comes time to award the Player of the Year Trophy at the end of Season 12. It’s possible goalies Matt Murray (Oslo) and Kari Ramo (Helsinki) will be among the choices. Many believe they deserve to be…
When Jonathan Toews returned to Bratislava for the first time after deciding to leave his team of 11 seasons, he was greeted to boos … but not full-throated booing. It seemed half of stands was angry that he left while the other half was grateful for his great service to the franchise. It was probably…
St. Petersburg is practically flipping its team, doing a major renovation that could include a new coach too. Today, the Krasnyye Zvezdy added eight players through free agency and they might not be done yet. The most famous of them all is Alexander Ovechkin, who at age 37, will get to say he has played…
When it was learned Nicklas Backstrom and Martin Hanzal were going to be a free agents, the Helsinki Jokerit suddenly had two big holes to fill at center. With a wave of his magic wand (and $15.1 million in cash) General Manager Jukka Tuominen made Joanthan Toews and Anze Kopitar appear. Kopitar joined the team…
EURO players are really greedy right now. When we advance to the next step, they will be more in the mood to take what they can get. Instead of holding out for $6 million today, a player might take $4 million on Wednesday. So what does a general manager do? If he has cash to…
