The start of Season 13 has seen some surprisingly sluggish starts by some teams that did well last year and were expecting better this season. While Madrid and Dublin have soared up the standings, Oslo, Minsk and Bratislava have found themselves mired in the bottom handful of teams. Oslo has to be especially disappointed after…
With Season 12 now part of league history, here is a look at the EURO’s all-time statistics. The top 50 players in each category are listed with the name of the team they finished Season 12 regular season with. Retired players (just Nathan Horton, actually) are represented with the jersey they wore most often in…
For sure, general managers in the EURO League will have five good choices to vote for when it comes time to award the Player of the Year Trophy at the end of Season 12. It’s possible goalies Matt Murray (Oslo) and Kari Ramo (Helsinki) will be among the choices. Many believe they deserve to be…
The Best Goalie Trophy in the EURO this season is likely to find its way to Scandinavia. Oslo’s Matt Murray and Helsinki’s Kari Ramo are putting up superhero statistics this season. Either would be a worthy choice. Paris’ Philipp Grubauer should also get some attention, but his very good numbers aren’t at the same great…
Helsinki won’t come close to breaking Minsk’s Season 6 record for points in the standings, but the Jokerit could end the year as the highest-scoring team in league history. They should also have a goaltending record to boast about. With 4 games remaining to play, they need to score 19 times to tie Belfast’s record…
It seems like a simple question: Who were the best defensive forwards in the EURO League? But it’s difficult to quantify the answer. You can tell just by watching Adam Henrique of Gothenburg play that he really knows his way around the defensive zone, but how do you attach numbers to what Henrique does so…
With the score 3-0 in favor of Belfast early in the Giants’ final regular season game Friday, Belfast was killing a penalty when Erik Karlsson poked the puck away from Gothenburg’s Adam Henrique and moved it up to captain Claude Giroux along the right boards. Their teammate Gabriel Landeskog sensed and opportunity and took off…
Who has a chance to set league records this season? Already There Lisbon superstar John Tavares has 10 shorthanded goals, which ties him with what Jonathan Toews of Bratislava did in Season 3. One more Tavares shorty and Toews’ name comes off the list. Close London forward Jeff Skinner wants to be more careful with…
If a quick look at league statistics can be trusted, Marko Dano, 22, is definitely pulling his weight in Copenhagen as a second-line right wing. Dano leads the league in turnover ratio, having taken away 34 pucks and given up only 14 for a ratio of +20 through 22 games played. At the other end of…
Lisbon superstar Steven Stamkos couldn’t make another 100-point season happen this year, meaning no one has reached that plateau in every season of the league’s existence. Stamkos, of Lisbon, did make it six straight seasons of 82 games played, but he finished with 33 goals and 84 points, by far his lowest point total ever.…
