If it feels like your offense has been skating on oatmeal instead of ice against Minsk, Copenhagen and Helsinki, there is a good reason for that: those three teams are virtually perfecting team defense and protecting their goalies at unprecedented rates in the last few years. Last year (Season 17), Minsk set a league record…
GM: Mikko Mantykoski Coach: Dan Bylsma Last season: 24th overall. Did not make playoffs Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Tyler Seguin (free agent), Shayne Gostisbehere (trade), Teuvo Teravainen (free agent), Keith Petruzzelli (free agent), Dysin Mayo (free agent), Jacob De La Rose (free agent), Steven Santini (free agent), Anthony Nigro (free agent),…
GM: Eugene Wilkinson Coach: Barry Trotz Last season: 10th overall. In playoffs, defeated Milan; defeated Bern; lost to Berlin. Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Alexandre Carrier (trade), Adrian Kempe (trade) Out: Semyon Varlamov (retired), Noah Hanifin (trade), Alexander Volkov (free agent), Mike Hoffman (free agent) Potential Lineup Clayton Keller/Dylan Sikura/Oliver Björkstrand Casey Mittelstadt/Nick…
GM: Roger Bowmoore Coach: Paul Maurice Last season: 14th overall. Did not make playoffs Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Kevin Lankinen (free agent), Matt Roy (free agent), Troy Terry (free agent), Bernd Wolf (free agent), Alexander Volkov (free agent), Mike Iulianello (free agent), Out: Andrew Hammond (free agent), Danton Heinen (free agent), Jakub…
GM: Ronnie Walker Coach: Jim Hiller Last season: 20th overall. Did not make playoffs. Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Matt Duchene (free agent), Sam Reinhart (free agent), Thomas Chabot (trade), Juuse Saros (free agent), Sean Monahan (free agent), Travis Dermott (free agent), Eliezer Sherbatov (free agent), Ty Dellandrea (trade) Out: Jakob Chychrun (trade),…
GM: Bryan Camara Coach: Kris Knoblauch Last season: 15th overall. In playoffs, lost to Berlin Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Jakub Kovar (free agent), Staffan Kronwall (trade), Gabriel Landeskog (trade), Tyler Bertuzzi (trade), Andrei Kuzmenko (trade), Jake Middleton (free agent), Jakub Dobes (draft) Out: Joel Hofer (trade), Kristian Kuusela (free agent), Alexey Toropchenko…
GM: John Charles Coach: Rod Brind’Amour Last season: 22nd overall. Missed the playoffs. Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Alexey Toropchenko (free agent), Philipp Grubauer (free agent), Victor Mete (free agent), Out: Jakub Kovar (free agent), Sam Reinhart (free agent), Jesse Puljujarvi (free agent), Tomas Hyka (free agent), Cody Ceci (free agent), Patrick…
GM: Jukka Tuominen Coach: Brent Sutter Last season: 1st overall. In playoffs, defeated Dublin; defeated Copenhagen; defeated Minsk; defeated Berlin to win the EURO Cup Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Connor McDavid (trade), Jacob Moverare (trade), Alexei Bereglazov (trade), Jeff Skinner (free agent), Logan Couture (free agent), Jakub Vrana (trade), Denis Malgin (trade),…
GM: David Bell Coach: Willie Desjardins Last season: 13th overall. In playoffs, lost to Munich Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Martin Jones (free agent), Dylan Gambrell (free agent) Out: Ryan Pulock (free agent), Ryan McLeod (waivers), Keith Petruzzelli (free agent), Logan Couture (free agent), Brock McGinn (free agent), Potential Lineup Matthew Tkachuk/Aapeli Rasanen/Robby…
GM: Carl Choiniere Coach: Andre Tourigny Last season: 7th overall. In playoffs, lost to Copenhagen Team History Page Ins and Outs (Season 17 to Season 18) In: Tyson Foerster (trade), Olean Zellweger (trade) Ryan McLeod (waivers), Alex Formenton (trade), Nerius Alisauskas (trade), Sean Durzi (free agent), Brett Pesce (free agent), Denis Gribko (free agent), Nathan Bastian (free agent), Austin…
