A panel of one league official has named the coaches for All-Star Game 13, which will be held Dec. 4-5 in Zurich, Switzerland. Milan Guerriero defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler was born in Zurich a little more than 24 years ago and has played in the NHL for Washington and New Jersey. He has been named as…
General Manager Dennis Sullo will spend the next two weeks tidying up the arena and talking to hotel and restaurant owners because Zurich has been voted as the host city for the Season 13 All-Star Game. The Swiss city edged out Edinburgh and St. Petersburg in the poll of EURO general managers. Voting for the…
Plans are under way for the Season 13 EURO All-Star Game, to be held on the weekend of Dec. 4 and 5. General Managers in the EURO League will be asked to vote on the host city for this year’s all-star game. The host city will not have to do anything special for the event and…
Steven Stamkos ended a 12-year run with the Frankfurt/Lisbon franchise and will be a Krasnyye Zvezdy after accepting a two-year, $8.625 million deal with St. Petersburg. It was one of three offers the veteran considered before making his choice to go to Russia. Look for him to move to left wing and team with Sergei…
The Capitals finished 9th in the Northern Conference and missed the playoffs in Season 12 but that miss paid off with a draft lottery win that saw Edinburgh move all the way up to the top pick in the draft, just ahead of their neighbors to the west in Dublin. The Scottish team has been…
HELSINKI – Maybe the Helsinki Jokerit had first-time jitters. The glaring spotlight of the Finals was a new experience for them. The Smurfs certainly had no reason to show any jitters. They have been a fixture in the big series for the last four seasons. While the Jokerit only lost at home 3 times during…
The Helsinki Jokerit emerged from the Northern Conference to face the Berlin Smurfs for EURO Cup #12. Their team nicknames would lead you to believe this will be a fun series. But trust us, both clubs are taking it very seriously. The teams met three times in the regular season with the home team winning…
Number 3 in the league Belfast eliminated #2 Oslo and will set its sights on #1 Helsinki in this round. During the regular season, these teams met 3 times with the Giants beating the Jokerit 5-2 and 6-3 in Northern Ireland, while Helsinki won 7-3 in Finland. Helsinki will have the home ice advantage in…
Northern Conference Vienna fans get to see their team in the playoffs in their first season in Austria, but they have to go up against a Goliath. Augustiner goalie Braden Holtby will get stern test but he remains the team’s best chance to advance in an upset against one of the highest-scoring teams in history.…
Vienna has just one regular season game to play. Berlin – the league’s slow tortoise – has 6 games left. So it’s time to start thinking about season trophies that will be voted on during the playoffs. How about the Rookie of the Year Trophy? There is a formula Websim uses to determine which five…
