This is the final season with Liverpool playing in the German-Slavic Division and Tallinn playing in the English Channel Division. Realignment will take place during the next off-season.The Boss Scousers playing twice as many games against their English neighbor London? Tallinn and Helsinki crossing the Gulf of Finland six times every season to battle each…
Two of the EURO League’s most electrifying wingers have decided who they will play for in the coming season. Filip Forsberg, 34, will stay with the Paris Rouge Eiffels this season, signing a deal that will earn him $7.4 million in each of the next two years. It was widely reported that the Swedish point…
EDINBURGH – Young hockey players Gavin McKenna, Emmitt Finney, Ivar Stenberg and lots of others will soon hear their names announced over the draft podium microphone. The Season 19 Draft will start with a pick by Madrid. The draft lottery was held Thursday morning and two teams moved up on the draft list. London jumped…
Four of the league’s 24 teams have traded away their first-round picks and won’t be participating in the first round unless trades are made to get them in. Oslo will have three selections in the first round (numbers 2, 11 and 22 before the draft lottery), while Madrid will have two (1 and 17) and…
With the changing of another season, 103 players have handed in their retirement papers with Rose at league headquarters. She will have a lot of filing-type work ahead of her for the next few days. Some of those 103 played a lot and had great careers. Thirty-one never got to play a game in the…
Early on, Helsinki General Manager Jukka Tuominen called this season a “rebuilding year” for his club. And to be fair, some demolition work did take place. Only the when all the dust settled, all the other teams were left in ruins and it was the Jokerit who were the lone team left standing to hoist…
VIENNA – The EURO League Hall of Fame has just expanded from five players to nine. On the fifth HOF ballot, general managers voted in these four former superstars: Erik Karlsson, D Anze Kopitar, C Jonathan Toews, C Evgeni Malkin, C Five other former players did not receive the required number of votes but each…
A fifth class of candidates has been announced for induction into the EURO Hockey League Hall of Fame. General Managers can vote before Feb. 21 by clicking on this link for the ballot. There are currently five players and a “builder” who were voted into the Hall of Fame. To gain entry to the EURO…
Before the EURO League All-Star Game, Northern Conference coach Martina Navratilova encouraged her players to take in the GM sock puppet shows, saying it would help them relieve the anxiety and glare that comes with the sport’s brightest spotlight. She was really wrong. Come game time, the players seemed sluggish and unfocused. Coach Dominik Hasek…
The All-Star Weekend Skills Competition was a good time for all but especially for Helsinki players and fans. Not only did defenseman Jacob Moverare beat out his former defense partner in Oslo (Zach Werenski) to win the Hardest Shot competition, but forward Brock Boeser placed second in Fastest Skater and third in Shooting Accuracy. Fastest…
