A fourth class of candidates has been announced for induction into the EURO Hockey League Hall of Fame. General Managers will receive the official ballot in the e-mail accounts associated with their Websim account. Three players and a “builder” were the first four people voted into the Hall of Fame, however no one made it…
Quick Glance: For a few years, the Kosice franchise’s recipe for success has been puck pursuit and tough team defense, mixed with the hope they can score just when they need to. That plan has them into the conference semi-finals against the best team in the South. Berlin’s game plan under Coach Adam Oates and…
Quick Glance: Munich played methodically and beat Lisbon in five low-scoring games to advance. They were patient and waited for high-percentage scoring chances, which is evidenced by the fact seven of their players had shooting percentages of 14.3 or higher. Paris took a different tact, getting by Bratislava in a wild, free-for-all series that came…
Quick Glance: Belfast has its work cut out for them against the league’s top team. If the Giants look back to how they played Copenhagen in five regular season games … they will get scared. The Giants dropped three tight games on home ice and lost by three goals in both visits to Denmark. The…
Quick Glance: This series pits the teams that finished the regular season third and fourth overall against each other. Tickets are going very fast for these games. Oslo barely got past Helsinki in the first round, and considering Minsk had the best defense in the league and the second most productive offense, the Hussars could…
One team record was set and two others were tied in the EURO League’s Season 16. Two individual records were also established. Prague will be happy to know the 360 goals they gave up in Season 13 is no longer the record for most goals conceded. Unfortunately, the 362 they gave up this year is.…
Connor McDavid and his linemate in Oslo, Calvin Thurkauf, produced the best single games of the season, according to Websim’s Star Points formula. On Feb. 13 (game calendar) against Dublin, both McDavid and Thurkauf had 3 goals and 3 assists. Thurkauf took 8 shots, McDavid 6. They were both +2 in a close 7-6 win…
Quick Glance: It seemed like Lisbon got serious about making the playoffs and winning games about three-quarters of the way through the season. So, don’t take the Portuguese lightly. But still, Munich is a powerful club. The Red Bulls finished 9th in the league with 98 points after hanging in the Top 4 earlier in…
Quick Glance: The teams finished a point from each other in the standings and by an eyelash, Kosice won home ice advantage. It should be a fantastic – and close – series because Bern had the fourth-best offense in the league this year while Kosice always presents a strong team defense. The Slovakian team will…
Quick Glance: Of all the series involving first or second seeds – and maybe even third seeds – this one seems to be the most ripe for an upset. For one, Bratislava beat Paris four times this season in the six times they played. And Paris seems like they are teetering on being labeled injury…
