General Managers in the EURO League have been asked to vote on the host city for this year’s all-star game. The host GM doesn’t have to do anything for the event other than provide drinks (ale, Sangria, vodka, etc.) and designated drivers for visiting GMs. The Northern Conference won the first four all-star games that were…
A rash of suspensions in the EURO League this week has turned a suspicious eye toward Sepp Blatter, the league’s director of player safety and discipline. On Tuesday, two players drew suspensions: Roman Horak, Athens, 2 games for a slash to Prague defenseman Robin Grossman’s ankle Justin Faulk, Belfast, 1 game for an elbow that…
Sepp Blatter has two more player suspensions to announce. On Friday, 23-year-old Stefan Ulmer, an Austrian playing for the Smurfs, received a match penalty for spearing at the same time Bern’s Olli Malmivaara sustained a hernia injury. We’ll let you connect the dots and draw your own picture of what happened on the play. Berlin…
In a Saturday game against the Southern Conference’s top team, Bratislava had just taken a 2-1 lead late in the second when Eagle veteran Troy Brouwer made a move that will cost him a league suspension. After a battle against the boards just inside the Bratislava blueline, Brouwer and Josef Vasicek stopped playing and faced…
Helsinki 4, Bratislava 3 – Playing in their first-ever outdoor game – the Season 6 Klassikko Talvi in Helsinki – the Bratislava Eagles seemed a little awed by the whole thing. Temperatures were slightly below freezing for the game, with partly cloudy skies and a gentle breeze hitting the players as they sat on their respective benches. “That’s when…
Milan’s Tomas Zaborsky is the unlucky winner of the season’s first suspension, issued today by Sepp Blatter, EURO’s director of player safety and discipline. A minute into his first shift in Milan’s 5-2 loss in Prague on Friday, Zaborsky slammed Marcel Hossa into the boards as both were pursuing a puck from opposite directions. Hossa…
Generals managers have started submitting names for the Season 8 draft project (which would only be adopted if it’s approved in a league-wide vote) and a good list is starting to shape up. Here’s a look at what Commissioner Chuck Massaro did with the names so far: So far, 15 GMs have submitted four names…
The Season 7 EURO draft later in 2016 will feature current NHL players and prospects from the NHL draft in June, but for Season 8, we will need a new draft set. Discussion initiated today by Geoffrey Paul (London) centered around the notion of having GMs forward names of past NHLers who have made an…
Fans in Zurich, Lisbon and Athens – among other cities – aren’t too pleased today after some of their biggest star free agents decided to try the open market. Elite defensemen like Shea Weber, Brent Seabrook, Dustin Byfuglien and Keith Yandle are among the prizes available in the free agent frenzy that will start Sunday afternoon. GMs will then…
At some point after each all-star game is played, an updated Guide Book is published, but with a new URL. This is the most recent URL, updated after the Season 6 game: http://online.flipbuilder.com/xwfl/lker/
