When Dion Phaneuf gets too old to hit people and intimidate, Radko Gudas will be there for the Munich Fox. GM Troy Huzy made the bearded Czech his team’s first pick in the EURO Draft, taking him 20th overall. Gudas hits everything in sight, but he also is capable of playing well positionally and he…
Prague drafted bookend 21-year-old wingers with back-to-back picks to take us to the 20th pick in the EURO draft. American Tom Nieto and Slovakian Tomas Jurco are both classified as snipers, they skate at about the same pace, they are roughly the same size and it appears they will grow up in the league together,…
Bern got younger in goal Sunday with the selection of Cam Talbot, formerly of the New York Rangers. The 26-year-old will be a solid backup for Mike Smith in the Bears goal and he comes cheap: $562,500 for this season and next. Bern, a team built for Season 1 by its original GM Adam Ross…
Tomas Hertl, a versatile, fast forward with size and scoring ability was selected fifth overall in the EURO draft by the Oslo Outlaws. The Prague-born Hertl can play wing and while he’s currently on a team with a good mix of ages, he looks to mature along with 24 and under forwards Tyler Seguin, Elias…
Ondrej Palat, a sterling all-around talent on left wing, has joined the Belfast Giants as the first player selected in the EURO League’s Season 4 draft. The 22-year-old from the Czech Republic doesn’t have much size, generously listed at 6-0, 180, but that’s about the only area in which he’s lacking. Palat projects to be…
Because the commissioner didn’t know he could start the draft until two astute GMs told he could, the Season 4 EURO draft has began abruptly. And fans in Northern Ireland received a pleasant surprise as their team jumped from its scheduled 6th pick to number one by winning the draft lottery. GM Chris Patton will have…
A plan to construct a EURO League Hall of Fame with a yearly induction of players has been announced by commissioner Chuck Massaro. The Hall of Fame will be built a block away from league headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and construction is expected to be complete in time for an induction ceremony following the completion…
By a goal, Moscow Spartak are champions of the EURO League. The Russian team won 3-2 against the defending champion Paris Rouges Eiffels Thursday night. Moscow seemed to have won it with superior effort in the second and third periods, when they outshot Paris 10-4 and 14-5. Anze Kopitar’s 9th playoff goal was the eventual…
So Paris escaped Athens’ clutches and gets a chance to defend the title starting tonight against Moscow. Commissioner: On paper, it looks like Paris should win. But the Cup will end up in the Kharlamov Division this year, I predict. Spartak comes at you from too many directions – it’s hard to stop a team…
In the office, we’re are still talking about the Athens-Berlin series, and Rose and I are even in our predictions. Each of us is 6-6. Here’s where I pull ahead and Rose starts to cry. Northern Conference Commissioner: Logic says this will be a very close series involving two solid teams with two of the…
