Twelve players who have retired in the last two seasons may be added to the next Hall of Fame election ballot, joining 10 players who did not get voted in the last time an election was held. Every two seasons, the league will vote to see if anyone should be inducted into the Hall of Fame…
The EURO League draft will be coming up at the end of the month and then in October, it will be the four stages of free agent signings. For some teams, it will be a scary time, as some key pieces of puzzles decide if salary offers will be good enough to keep them with…
Lindy Ruff was happy when he won the Coach of the Year Trophy in Season 3 when he was with the Edinburgh Capitals, and it was probably a joy to hold the same trophy this year as coach of the Minsk Hussars, but he seemed downright giddy when he raised the EURO Cup for the cheering…
It looks like either Paris or Minsk will be the next home of the EURO Cup. The Rouges Eiffels and Hussars are both enjoying 3-0 leads in their conference finals series. Berlin and Belfast will have to pull off miraculous runs – four straight wins – to change things. Minsk-Belfast series Minsk has looked unbeatable against Belfast,…
The second round of the 2017-18 playoffs are in the books and the four teams that finished highest in the regular season have moved on to their conference finals. As I did after the first round, I have named players who had the best round. Chuck’s Second-Round Heroes First Team F- Derek Stepan, Madrid –…
Paris leads Athens, 2 games to 1 Athens found a way to win against Paris to narrow the Rouge Eiffels’ lead in their series to 2 games to one. After getting shelled in Game 1 by a 7-2 score, The Greeks were hammered again in Paris, losing 6-0 in the second game of the series. Evgeny…
Gothenburg 4, Minsk 3 – Pekka Rinne looked like an octopus on Thursday, thwarting the Hussars time and time again and finishing with 56 saves as Gothenburg knotted the series at one game apiece. The series shifts to Sweden for Games 3 and 4 on Saturday and Monday. While Rinne was being great, Carey Price didn’t…
The higher seeded teams all won with home-ice advantage to take 1-0 leads in their second round match-ups. Belfast 5, Moscow 2 – The Giants tightened up their defensive game after Belfast’s Cody Franson scored from the point to tie the game at 2-2 in the first period. Franson also scored a relatively meaningless fifth…
Rose was reinstated today by Sepp Blatter following her Cookie Incident suspension and the first thing she did when she walked into the office was smile and hold up 6 fingers. “The lowly accountant/secretary correctly predicted six first round winners and the brainiac Commissioner only got two right (Minsk and Berlin). Yeah! Maybe I should…
The first round of the EURO League playoffs is finished and there were not too many surprises in the team results. The top four seeds in the Northern Conference all advanced as did the top three in the Southern Conference. Ahens, which was only a point behind Munich in the regular season, was the only…
