Farm Club: Venice (Italy) Griffins GM: Dennis Sullo (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Sullivan (replaced Craig Berube after Season 9, Berube replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 8) (Laviolette replaced Paul MacLean after Season 4) Last season: 22nd overall. Did not make playoffs, Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Tomas Tatar (free agent), Mats Zuccarello (free agent), Robert Hagg…
Farm Club: Bergen (Norway) Bandits GM: Carl Choiniere (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Paul MacLean (replaced Peter Laviolette) (replaced Dave Cameron, who replaced Dave Hakstol after 1 game of Season 8. Hakstol replaced Claude Julien after Season 6, who replaced Peter Laviolette after Season 3) Last season: 5th overall; In playoffs, lost to Stockholm Ins and Outs (Season…
Owner: Bogdan Podarok, entrepeneur Farm Club: Aalborg (Denmark) Pirates GM: Austin Dwyer (3rd GM in team’s history) Coach: Rob Brind’Amour (replaced Randy Carlyle after Season 11) (Carlyle replaced Guy Boucher after Season 5) Last season: 18th overall; missed playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Pekka Rinne (retired), P.K. Subban (free agent), T.J. Brennan (free agent), Louis Leblanc (free…
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: 14th overall, (In playoffs, lost to Helsinki) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season…
Owner: Tommy Ahlers, founder & CEO of ZYB, a popular social media & networking site in Denmark. Farm club: Malmo (Sweden) Redhawks GM: Martin Sayle (2nd GM in team’s history) Coach: Ken Hitchcock (replaced Paul Maurice after Season 9. Maurice replaced Dave Cameron after Season 7; Cameron replaced Paul Maurice after Season 4; Maurice replaced Brent Sutter after Season 3) Last season: 2nd…
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: 1st overall; (In playoffs, defeated St. Petersburg; then defeated Stockholm; then lost to Copenhagen in conference final.) Ins and Outs (Season 11 to Season 12) Out: Corey Price (trade), Nicklas Backstrom…
St. Petersburg is practically flipping its team, doing a major renovation that could include a new coach too. Today, the Krasnyye Zvezdy added eight players through free agency and they might not be done yet. The most famous of them all is Alexander Ovechkin, who at age 37, will get to say he has played…
When it was learned Nicklas Backstrom and Martin Hanzal were going to be a free agents, the Helsinki Jokerit suddenly had two big holes to fill at center. With a wave of his magic wand (and $15.1 million in cash) General Manager Jukka Tuominen made Joanthan Toews and Anze Kopitar appear. Kopitar joined the team…
EURO players are really greedy right now. When we advance to the next step, they will be more in the mood to take what they can get. Instead of holding out for $6 million today, a player might take $4 million on Wednesday. So what does a general manager do? If he has cash to…
The Madrid Royals made a strong move Sunday, spending $11.3 million to sign free agents Jakob Silfverberg and Nick Bjugstad. Silfverberg, a RW who is now 32, spent his whole career in Dublin. He is a good skater, a four-time 20-goal scorer and he is coming off his career-best point total of 56. Bjugstad, a…
