GM: Igor Kirunov (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Lindy Ruff (formerly Claude Julien) Last season: 7th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Jakub Voracek (trade), Nick Leddy (trade), Patrik Berglund (trade), Renat Mamashev (trade), Nathan Beaulieu (trade), Willie Mitchell (retired) In: Patrick Kane (trade), Jordan Staal (trade), Mark Giordano (trade), Aaron Ekblad, Kevin Clark (draft), Nick Schmaltz (draft),…
GM: Guybrush Threepwood (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Adam Oates Last season: 6th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Matt Read (trade), Slava Voynov (trade), Martin Erat (trade), Ville Peltonen (free agent), Shawn Horcoff (free agent), Josh Holden (free agent) In: Dion Phaneuf (trade), Tony Martensson (trade), Martin Havlat (free agent), Tom…
GM: Brad Denea (third GM in team’s history) Coach: Paul MacLean (replaced Dave Tippett after Season 4) (Tippett replaced Alain Vigneault after Season 3) Last season: 20th overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Tim Thomas (trade), Petr Sykora (retired), Cody Franson (free agent), Nikita Nikitin (free agent) In: Renat Mamashev (trade), Brian Elliott (trade), Nardo Nagtzaam…
Do you want to know where your team stacks up in terms of popularity in opposing rinks? Trevor Grimm put together this list from his arena – tickets prices page: Paris 50.8 Moscow 46 Copenhagen 39.2 Athens 34.8 Berlin 33.6 Bratislava 32.4 Belfast 32 Saint Petersburg 27.6 Dublin 24.8 Edinburgh 24.8 Geneva 24.8 Zurich 24.4…
GM: Geoffrey Paul (second GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock Last season: 16th overall, out of playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Brenden Morrow (retired), Manny Malhotra (free agent), Marc-Andre Bergeron (free agent) In: Jiri Hudler (free agent), Rasmus Ristolainen, D; Artemy Panarin (draft); Gregory Beron (draft), Erik Forssell (draft), In Place (Key players…
GM: Roland Lavoie (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Dan Bylsma Last season: 17th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Jordan Staal (trade), Andrew Cogliano (trade), Marko Dano (trade), Marcel Goc (free agent) In: Patrik Berglund (trade), Nick Leddy, (trade), Andrej Meszaros (trade), Lee Stempniak (free agent), Loic Lamperier (draft), Tomas Nosek (draft), Reto Suri (draft), Alex…
GM: Andy Rolling (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Darryl Sutter (replaced Joel Quenneville after Season 3) Last season: 18th overall Ins and Outs (Season 4 to Season 5) Out: Chris Kunitz (trade), Jiri Hudler (free agent), Matt Greene (waivers), Steve Ott (free agent), Adam McQuaid (free agent), John Mitchell (free agent), Brad Stuart (retired) In: Matt Read (free…
The free agent signing period was a little quieter this year than in most seasons, but of the relatively few contracts that were signed there were a few moves that could make a difference. At least that’s what the general managers who signed the players want to believe. The highest ranked player to move to…
When player agents and team officials can’t agree on a player’s salary, an arbitrator has to be called in to make the decision. That happened 8 times in the EURO League tonight. Four of the eight arbitration contracts were awarded to goalies. Berlin and Athens each had two cases go to arbitration. The Smurfs were…
Pickings are a little slim this year, but if you’re a EURO League general manager with money, the free agent sale that will go on from Friday night to Sunday night could bring you a prized part of the team. If you don’t have money, ask Marc-Andre Fleury for some. He’s about to get plenty. Fleury,…
