The Season 17 draft ended this morning and management types immediately scurried off to their offices to dive into the first free agent period. There are some big names looking for new homes. But a caution to Website GMs: Rule 7 is in effect, meaning older (Type 3) players signed at this stage will receive…
Center Macklin Celebrini’s debut in the NHL with the San Jose Sharks will be eyed by new Madrid Royals GM Mikko Mantykoski with great interest. On his first day on the job, Mantykoski picked Celebrini with the first overall pick in the Season 17 EURO draft, after division realignment allowed Madrid to get into the…
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…
This will be news to some and a review for others, but here are some unique rules we have in the EURO League. Off Season Expansion? Very few leagues in Websim add new franchises and expand, but ours came close to being able to do that a couple times. If that opportunity before the start…
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…
