MILAN, Italy – The Season 17 EURO Draft will get under way tonight with some real intrigue surrounding the first few picks. Every year in this virtual evolution league, the main question is how much faith can you put in a prospect because he will be stuck with his first qualifying NHL season as the…
Seventy-four players have announced their retirement from the EURO League, including several former all-stars. Anze Kopitar, a center for Moscow, Athens and Helsinki, retires as the 10th leading scorer in league history. he was named to the All-Star Game seven times. Jamie Benn, a legend in Edinburgh, was a 6-time all-star and retires as the…
How fitting is it that the winning goal in Game 7 of the Season 16 EURO Cup finals was scored by John Tavares, the league’s all-time leading scorer? Even though he’s won nine individual trophies, this is the first time he’s been on a champion team. When John Legend scored, Berlin went up 3-0 and…
Quick Glance: Season 16’s finale brings together some very familiar friends/foes. General Managers Igor Kirunov of Minsk and Guybrush Threepwood of Berlin are both charter members of the the EURO League. And their coaches, Dave Tippett of the Hussars and Adam Oates of the Smurfs have guided their clubs for more than a decade each…
In some ways, Jonathan Quick was like the EURO League’s Pete Rose. They were both arguably the best at their position but were still dogged by questions about whether or not they should be in the Hall of Fame. Rose, an American baseball great whose gambling got him into trouble with the league, died Monday…
Quick Glance: In Round 2, Munich surprised Paris with a win in France and then won all three games in Bavaria. Paris is a tough place to play but this season, Berlin has put up a legendary 33-2-6 home record. The Smurfs played 10 playoff games against Zurich and Kosice and were held under 4…
Quick Glance: It shouldn’t be a surprise that the top two Northern Conference teams in the regulation season will meet for the right to play for the Cup. Both of these general managers know how to win and both have multiple Cup wins on their resume. In the regular season, both clubs were at or…
A fourth class of candidates has been announced for induction into the EURO Hockey League Hall of Fame. General Managers will receive the official ballot in the e-mail accounts associated with their Websim account. Three players and a “builder” were the first four people voted into the Hall of Fame, however no one made it…
Quick Glance: It seemed like Lisbon got serious about making the playoffs and winning games about three-quarters of the way through the season. So, don’t take the Portuguese lightly. But still, Munich is a powerful club. The Red Bulls finished 9th in the league with 98 points after hanging in the Top 4 earlier in…
Quick Glance: The teams finished a point from each other in the standings and by an eyelash, Kosice won home ice advantage. It should be a fantastic – and close – series because Bern had the fourth-best offense in the league this year while Kosice always presents a strong team defense. The Slovakian team will…
