By Paja Jansson Due to the much controversial situation in EURO, where the Players Union gave the owners the updated salary demands, a lot of players were waived before July 1st to make room for new contracts. But many of the players are having One-Way contracts, and will still get their full salary even when…
Farm Club: St. Petersburg Dynamo GM: Ron Lavallee (4th GM in team’s history) Coach: Joel Quenneville (formerly Glen Gulutzan) Last season: 13th overall (In the playoffs, defeated Helsinki, then Minsk; lost to Belfast) Ins and Outs: (Season 7 to Season 8) Out: Dustin Brown (free agent), Duncan Keith (free agent), Chris Stewart (free agent), Gerhard Unterluggauer (free agent), Derek…
Team owner: Schweizerische Bundesbahnen (Swiss Federal Railways – SBB) Ceo is Andreas Meyer. Farm Club: EHC Vaduz (Lichtenstein) GM: Paja Jansson (6th GM in team’s history) Coach: Mike Babcock Last season: 24th overall, out of the playoffs Ins and Outs (Season 7 to Season 8) Out: Henrik Zetterberg (retired), Radim Vrbata (retired), Leo Komarov (free agent), Jiri Hudler…
Owners – Two of Northern Ireland’s most famous sons: actor James (Jimmy) Nesbitt (probably best known internationally for his part as one of the dwarves in the Hobbit trilogy); and model/actor/’GLAMOUR sexiest man of 2017′ Jamie Dornan of ‘Fifty Shades’ fame. Farm Club: Belfast Bruins GM: Chris Patton (only GM in team’s history) Coach: Alain Vigneault…
General managers who were disciplined enough to let their top free agents leave for the open market might be the last ones laughing as the EURO League continues to reel in an economic crisis. Beginning today, they will get to go shopping in one of the best free agent classes ever, and on top of…
Call it capitalism. Call it greed. But whatever it is, it is suddenly giving EURO League general managers and owners indigestion as they look over their salary charts and wonder how they will possibly keep their star players on their teams. Madrid is wondering if they should cut Shea Weber loose. Bratislava is deciding whether…
The Season 8 EURO Draft is complete and a few teams picked up players that should make the starting lineup a couple of weeks from now. Here’s a team-by-team look, sorted from the first pick on down. This story will be updated, but on no specific schedule. OSLO – The Outlaws jumped over four teams into…
The draft lottery for the EURO League’s Season 8 draft could be held as early as Tuesday*, a fact which surely has some ears perked in Switzerland and the British Isles. The eight teams that finished out of the playoffs last season all still hold their first round picks in the draft and all could…
Matt Duchene will be at Home Depot this week, picking out a new trophy case. The talented center who played a major role in the Belfast Giants’ surge to a third EURO Cup was also named winner of these trophies today: Player of the Year Best Defensive Forward Sportsmanship He doesn’t have a chance to…
The Belfast Giants have skated away with the EURO Cup for the third time in four seasons. In Game 6 of the Finals against a dangerous Lisbon squad, the Giants made the most of their opportunity to end the series by jumping out to a 2-0 lead before Lisbon could get going. Matt Duchene, a…
