It was Bern’s turn to draft 7th and two of the highest rated players available were Swiss. With Joonas Korpisalo already in the system, the Interrail turned their attention away from the goalie position and selected Robert Karrer, a 19-year-old defensemen. Calvin Thurkauf, another Swiss-born player, was considered the top forward available at the time. They…
Munich took the first goalie in the draft and Attila Adorjan also became the first Hungarian/Romanian player in league history. Munich Red Bull GM Grant Sayle’s team has some young firepower up front with the likes of Sean Monahan, Filip Forsberg and Clayton Keller but they need a young goalie and Sayle had a few…
Prague Sparta GM Peter Ott went with a Finnish forward with the fifth pick in the draft. It was the team’s first of two picks (No. 16 is the other) in the first round. A fairly small forward, Miro Aaltonen is ready for EURO action now after stints in the KHL and Finnish leagues. There might be openings for…
Gothenburg picked Canadian Dylan Sikura and he became the first center picked by the Swedish team since it went with Adam Henrique in the first round of the league’s initial draft. General Manager Austin Dwyer would love for Sikura to turn out to be as important as Henrique has been to the franchise. Henrique has…
Swedish defenseman Jacob Moverare will play in Norway with the young and talented Oslo Outlaws. Oslo has had the unfortunate luxury of picking in the top 5 spots of the draft for the last six seasons. They have accumulated goalie Matt Murray, defensemen Viktor Antipin and Shayne Gostisbehere, center Connor McDavid and winger Tomas Hertl…
Pure goal scorer Alexander Polunin will move his 5-9, 171-pound body from Russia to Zurich, Switzerland soon to play for the Lions. The Moscow native was the second player selected in the draft, behind Dominik Lakatos of London. Polunin is definitely the most EURO-ready player in the draft. It was said before the draft that he…
Once the Season 9 draft started, it took new London GM Eric Smith exactly 51 seconds to make his first EURO League pick. The team with a new GM, new nickname and logo also has a new superstar in Dominik Lakatos. The 18-year-old Czech is already third on the depth chart at right wing for…
For virtual leagues like ours, the next couple of days are going to be nervous ones because many prospects are going to turn into players with attributes. In Helsinki, which should get not one, not two, but three young stars, the partying has already begun. Some players will have great PO ratings. Matthew Barzal scored…
Bratislava owner Juraj Dluhy must be hard to please. His team surpirsed the field and came within a game of winning the championship, but he is decidedly glum these days. “The players did well and we got a couple of nice banners,” Dluhy said. “But I made less money than I did three seasons ago.…
There are some new general managers in the EURO League this season who already don’t understand all the fuss about Erik Forssell. Here’s a quick primer to bring you up to speed on the league. The main characters All league decisions are made in an office in Vienna, on Schulerstrasse, around the block from the…
