The Madrid Royals had a productive day, adding star offensive winger Tyler Ennis and two defensemen – two of them Smurfs last season – to the family. They also saw three family members move to other families today. Ennis, who has played for Southern Conference rivals Bratislava and Berlin, decided to take his 32-year-old body…
As of halfway into the first day of free agent signings for Season 11, only one player had more than one team courting him. Defenseman Patrick Wiercioch, a 30-year-old who has proven he can put the puck in the net, signed with Athens today, choosing the Gods over the Red Bulls of Munich. He inked…
Gothenburg jumps up to #1 pick spot in draft lottery; picks forward Jack Hughes The Frolunda made Jack Hughes the first pick in the Season 11 draft Saturday. The American center gives Gothenburg three sure-fire young forwards that will be the nucleus of the team for years to come in Hughes, Russian Andrei Svechnikov (19)…
I will have to wait until all coaches are signed, but I plan to continue my tradition of writing profiles of each team before the season gets under way. I approach it as if I was a sports writer and try to give the reader an idea of what to expect during the upcoming season.…
The Copenhagen Tridents, a team of great balance and depth with a Mexican goalie, defeated Berlin in Game 6 of the Finals to win the Season 10 EURO Cup. The Tridents played 4 good teams in the playoffs and they walked through all of them. The Smurfs won 2 games against Ken Hitchcock’s team, but…
BERLIN, Germany – Home ice advantage apparently means little in an all-star game. On Sunday, the “Visiting” Northern Conference stars, coached by Nikolai Kulemin, completely obliterated Jochen Hecht’s Southern Conference team 16-3. It was the most lopsided all-star game ever, unseating the Season 5 game that the North won 10-3 outdoors in Helsinki, Finland. The…
Fastest Skater The home fans went crazy when their man Jan Kovar took the lead in the All-Star Game Skill Competition’s Fastest Skater event, but the cheering lasted only until Mattias Sjogren took his lap. The Swedish winger who plays for St. Petersburg put the pedal to the metal and won the event with a…
Sixteen players are making their first trip to the All-Star Game this weekend. Meanwhile, it’s old hat for three others who have been voted to eight of the 10 games. Here is a listed of the players, sorted by the number of years they’ve appeared in the All-Star Game: 8 Years Erik Karlsson, Alex Pietrangelo,…
The all-star teams have been picked for the 10th EURO League all-star game, to be held next weekend in Berlin. The top vote-getters filled out the first four lines and three defense pairings. To get every team represented, a fifth line and fourth defense pairing were picked. Maxim Chudinov of Minsk was named captain of…
BERLIN, Germany – The coaches have been named for All-Star Game 10 and each team has named the players who will be representing them in the annual Skills Competition that will be held the day before the All-Star Game. Two retired members of the initial Berlin team will be calling the shots behind the bench.…
