Playoff Preview – North

Northern Conference Minsk Hussars 5th seed Top G – Simeon Varlamov Belfast Giants 4th seed Top G – Nico Hovinen Season Series: 4-0 Belfast Key matchups: These two teams are historically the two most successful clubs. Belfast has 4 Cups and Minsk has 2. Belfast has the forwards to score on anyone (Duchene, Landeskog, MacKinnon…

Playoff Preview – South

Southern Conference Madrid Royals 5th seed Top G – Robin Lehner Berlin Smurfs 4th seed Top G – Calvin Pickard Season Series: 3-1 Berlin Key matchups: Fans in Berlin will be booing former Smurf Tyler Ennis when he’s skating on Madrid’s top line with Evander Kane and Sean Couturier, but if the Smurfs’ top defensemen…

Skills competitors lined up

Mattias Sjogren, Tyler Myers and Connor McDavid have crowns to defend this weekend. They are the three won last season’s skills competition for, respectively, fastest skater, hardest shot and most accurate shooter. While no player will represent his team in all 3 events, several will compete in two events this Saturday: Par Arlbrandt, Milan (Fastest…

All-Star lineups selected

The votes are in for the Season 11 All-Star Game to be held outdoors in Oslo next weekend. Without further adieu, here are the teams selected by league GMs: Northern Conference Coach: Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO Beer: Hansa pilsner Top Line, Defense and Goalie LW – Gabriel Landeskog (Belfast); C- Tyler Seguin (Oslo);…

All-Star Vote: The Centers

It’s time to look at the candidates for the all-star game which will be held in Oslo on April 18-19. To vote, send a message to the commissioner listing your top 3 choices at each position (5 for defensemen) listed in order. For example: “Northern Conference center: 1-Smith, 2-Jones, 3-Watson. Southern Conference center: 1-Williams, 2-Jefferson, 3-Pzyczwewski”…

All-Star Vote: The LWs

It’s time to look at the candidates for the all-star game which will be held in Oslo on April 18-19. To vote, send a message to the commissioner listing your top 3 choices at each position (5 for defensemen) listed in order. For example: “Northern Conference center: 1-Smith, 2-Jones, 3-Watson. Southern Conference center: 1-Williams, 2-Jefferson, 3-Pzyczwewski”…

ALL-STAR VOTE: THE RWS

It’s time to look at the candidates for the all-star game which will be held in Oslo on April 18-19. To vote, send a message to the commissioner listing your top 3 choices at each position (5 for defensemen) listed in order. For example: “Northern Conference center: 1-Smith, 2-Jones, 3-Watson. Southern Conference center: 1-Williams, 2-Jefferson, 3-Pzyczwewski”…