Owner: Jim Balsillie, Canadian businessman Farm Club: Monaco Gamblers GM: Stephen R (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: John Tortorella Last season: 20th overall; did not make playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Jimmy Howard (free agent), Alexander Edler (free agent), Brandon Sutter (free agent), Alec Martinez (free agent), Brad Richardson (retired), Tomas…
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: 9th overall; In playoffs, lost to London in Round 1. Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Ben Bishop (free agent), Patrik Berglund (free agent), Andrew Ladd (free agent),…
Farm Club: MAC Budapest (Hungary) GM: Peter Ott (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Bruce Cassidy (replaced Patrick Roy after Season 10) (Roy replaced Guy Boucher after Season 9, Boucher replaced Paul MacLean after Season 8, who replaced Patrick Roy after Season 7; Roy replaced Dave Tippett) Last season: 22nd overall (out of the playoffs) Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) In: …
Farm Club – Glasgow (Scotland) Claymores GM: John Charles (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Tom Rowe (replaced Bob Hartley before Season 9) (replaced Randy Carlyle before Season 6, who replaced Lindy Ruff) Last season: 24th overall Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Mike Hoffman (free agent), Andy Sertich (free agent), Thomas Vanek (free agent) In: Kirby…
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: 15th overall, (In playoffs, lost to Belfast) Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season…
Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo GM: David Reichel (5th GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 16th overall (did not make playoffs) Ins and Outs: (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Mitch Marner (trade) Kris Versteeg (free agent), Jyri Marttinen (free agent), Vojtech Nemec (free agent), Jiri Tlusty (free agent), Layne Viveiros (trade), Aaron Dell (free agent) In: Mikko…
Owner: Bogdan Podarok, entrepeneur Farm Club: Aalborg (Denmark) Pirates GM: Austin Dwyer (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Randy Carlyle (replaced Guy Boucher after Season 5) Last season: 19th overall; missed playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 10 to Season 11) Out: Beau Bennett (free agent), Dylan Olsen (free agent), Petr Zamorsky (free agent), Pierre-Marc Bouchard (retired) In: P.K. Subban (free agent), Jack…
Owners – Two of Northern Ireland’s most famous sons: actor James (Jimmy) Nesbitt (probably best known internationally for his part as one of the dwarves in the Hobbit trilogy); and model/actor/’GLAMOUR sexiest man of 2017′ Jamie Dornan of “Fifty Shades” fame. Farm Club: Belfast City Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault (replaced Darryl Sutter) …
Farm Club: Luxembourg Castles GM: Andy Rolling (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Babcock (replaced Brent Sutter after Season 9) (Sutter replaced Guy Boucher after Season 6, who replaced Darryl Sutter before Season 6, who replaced Joel Quenneville after Season 3) Last season: 4th overall. (In playoffs, defeated Lisbon, lost to Berlin) Ins and Outs (Season…
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: 14th overall, (In playoffs, defeated Helsinki, then lost to Belfast) Ins and Outs (Season 9 to Season 10) Out: Patrick Kane (trade), Milan Lucic (trade), Jordan Staal (trade), Luke Adam (trade), Henrik Lundquist (free agent), Erik Haula (free agent), Michael Keranen (free agent), Sven Baertschi…
