Farm Club: Bergen (Norway) Bandits GM: Carl Choiniere (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Paul MacLean (replaced Peter Laviolette) (replaced Dave Cameron, who replaced Dave Hakstol after 1 game of Season 8. Hakstol replaced Claude Julien after Season 6, who replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 3) Last season: 5th overall; In playoffs, lost to Stockholm Ins and Outs (Season…
Owner: Bogdan Podarok, entrepeneur Farm Club: Aalborg (Denmark) Pirates GM: Austin Dwyer (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Rob Brind’Amour (replaced Randy Carlyle after Season 11) (Carlyle replaced Guy Boucher after Season 5) Last season: 18th overall; missed playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Pekka Rinne (retired), P.K. Subban (free agent), T.J. Brennan (free agent), Louis Leblanc (free…
Team owner: Sergei Smirnov, former director of JSC Proletarsky Zavod Farm Club: Sibir Novosibirsk (Russia) GM: Ben Stuller (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: John Stevens (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 8, who replaced Paul Maurice after Season 6, who replaced Kevin Dineen after Season 4) Last season: 14th overall, (In playoffs, lost to Helsinki) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season…
Farm club: Tampere (Finland) Tappara GM: Jukka Tuominen (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Brent Sutter (replaced Doug Weight after Season 9) (Weight replaced Barry Trotz after Season 7) Last season: 1st overall; (In playoffs, defeated St. Petersburg; then defeated Stockholm; then lost to Copenhagen in conference final.) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Corey Price (trade), Nicklas Backstrom…
Team owner: Juraj Dluhy, CEO, Cestné a Stavebné Mechanizmy Tisovec (a military equipment manufacturer in Detva, Slovakia.) Farm club: Vienna (Austria) Capitals GM: Chuck Massaro (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Lindy Ruff (replaced Brent Sutter after Season 6, who replaced Bruce Boudreau after Season 3) Last season: 5th overall (In playoffs, lost to Milan) Ins and Outs…
Team Owner: Elizabeth II, Queen of England (Purchased after Season 10 from C. Montgomery Burns, owner, Springfield Nuclear Power Plant) Farm Club: Tottenham Templars GM: Trevor Grimm (6th GM in team’s history) Coach: Paul Maurice (replaced Rod Brind’Amour in Season 11) (Brind’Amour replaced Barry Trotz after Season 10) (Trotz replaced Darryl Sutter after Season 7, who replaced…
Team owner: Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano, Queen of Spain. A former television journalist, she married King Felipe VI Farm Club: HC Barcelona GM: Tony B (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Dan Bylsma Last season: 11th overall. In playoffs, defeated Lisbon, lost to Berlin Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: P.K. Subban (free agent), Gareth Roberts (free agent), Loic Lamperier…
Farm Club: Cool Mokum Amsterdam (Netherlands) Owner: Ivan Menezes, CEO of Diageo, a London-based company that owns Dublin’s Guinness Brewery. GM: Jack Eichel (Fifth GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Johnston (replaced Bruce Cassidy after Season 10) (Cassidy replaced Paul MacLean after Season 7; MacLean replaced Dave Tippett after Season 4; Tippett replaced Alain Vigneault after Season 3) Last season: 23rd overall, (Missed the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Brent Burns (free agent), Marian…
Farm Club: Vitebsk Bears GM: Igor Kirunov (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Dave Tippett (replaced Guy Boucher, who replaced Lindy Ruff, who replaced Claude Julien) Last season: 10th overall, (In playoffs, lost to Copenhagen) Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Thomas Powell (free agent), Pavel Zacha (trade), Sergei Kostitsyn (free agent), Andrew MacDonald (free agent), David Schlemko (free agent),…
Owner: Tommy Ahlers, founder & CEO of ZYB, a popular social media & networking site in Denmark. Farm club: Malmo (Sweden) Redhawks GM: Martin Sayle (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock (replaced Paul Maurice after Season 9. Maurice replaced Dave Cameron after Season 7; Cameron replaced Paul Maurice after Season 4; Maurice replaced Brent Sutter after Season 3) Last season: 4th…
