Ice Hockey 2017 - 2018 Discussion Thread

[phelps 7,677]

[hckošice 14,834]

Great news for our Balkans friends, From this season will start a new international project the IHL (International Hockey League). 10 Clubs from   and will play in this championship.

 

The half of them will be from Slovenia HK Slavija Ljubjana, HK ECE Celje, HK Triglav, HK MK Bled and HDK Maribor, 3 clubs from Croatia Medvescak Zagreb „B”, Mladost Zagreb and HK Zagreb, the last 2 spots are for Serbians Crvena Zvezda Beograd and HK Vojvodina Novi Sad.

 

The competition will start in September and every team will play 2 matches against each other (once at home and once away), the best 8 will qualify for the play-offs.

A mentionable interesting rule is also each club can have maximum 5 foreigners in their squads

[intoronto 5,641]

Here is a great article on the possible makeup of Canada's men's hockey team for PyeongChang:

 

http://www.tsn.ca/some-unfamiliar-names-may-play-for-canada-at-olympics-1.715158

 

Doesn't look as bad as I expected 

[hckošice 14,834]

6 hours ago, intoronto said:

Here is a great article on the possible makeup of Canada's men's hockey team for PyeongChang:

 

http://www.tsn.ca/some-unfamiliar-names-may-play-for-canada-at-olympics-1.715158

 

Doesn't look as bad as I expected 

 

btw do you know when the official tournaments schedule is planned to be unveiled ? I can not find any information about the date anywhere for a while now

[intoronto 5,641]

3 minutes ago, hckosice said:

 

btw do you know when the official tournaments schedule is planned to be unveiled ? I can not find any information about the date anywhere for a while now

 

I can double check for you when I get home, which will be early morning your time 

[hckošice 14,834]

3 minutes ago, intoronto said:

 

I can double check for you when I get home, which will be early morning your time 

 

Great

[intoronto 5,641]

And the plot thickens... https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/nhl-2018-winter-olympics-alternate-schedule-alternate-reality-172053825.html

[hckošice 14,834]

Former Vancouver Canucks head coach Willie Desjardins named coach of men´s Canada team for the WOG 2018. Sean Burke will be the GM and Martin Brodeur will be also part of the staff.

[hckošice 14,834]

Canada named their rosters for the 2 "pre-olympic" August test tournaments in Russia. Very likely the Olympic final roster will be composed from those players.

 

Team Canada for Sochi Open in Russia:

 

Goaltenders: Justin Peters (Dinamo Riga, LAT./KHL), Kevin Poulin (No Club, last club Barys Astana, KAZ/KHL)

 

Defencers: Chay Genoway (Lada Togliatti, Rus./KHL), Geoff Kinrade (Red Star Kunlun, CHN/KHL), Patrick McNeill (Ingolstadt, GER.), Maxim Noreau (Bern, SUI.), Mat Robinson (CSKA Moscow, Rus./KHL), Jonathan Sigalet (Frölunda, Swe.), Karl Stollery (Dinamo Riga, Lat /KHL)

 

Forwards: Kevin Clark, Daniel Paille (both Brynäs, Swe), Andrew Ebbett, Mason Raymond (both Bern, Sui), Brandon Kozun, Max Talbot (both Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, Rus./KHL),Justin Azevedo (AK Bars Kazan, Rus./KHL), Gilbert Brulé (Traktor Chelyabinsk, Rus./KHL), Brandon Buck (Ingolstadt, GER), Bud Holloway (Skellefteaa, Swe.), Rob Klinkhammer (Dinamo Minsk, BLR /KHL), Ben Maxwell (Spartak Moscow, Rus./KHL), Brandon McMillan (Dinamo Riga, Lat./KHL), Eric O’Dell (HK Sochi, Rus./KHL), Linden Vey (Barys Astana, Kaz./KHL)

 

 

 

Team Canada for Nikolay Puchkov Trophy:

 

Goaltenders: Kevin Poulin, Ben Scrivens (Dinamo Minsk, BLR./KHL)

 

Defencers: Cam Barker (No Club, last club Barys Astana, KAZ/KHL), Carlo Colaiacovo (Mannheim, GER.), Stefan Elliott (No Club, last club Ak Bars Kazan, KAZ/KHL, Rus./KHL), Marc-Andre Gragnani (No Club, last club Dinamo Minsk, BLR./KHL), Kevin Klein (Zürich, SUI.), Shawn Lalonde (Cologne, GER), Craig Schira (Rögle, SWE.)

 

Forwards: Sean Collins, Ryan Garbutt (both HK Sochi, Rus./KHL), Jacob Micflikier, Marc-Antoine Pouliot, (both Biel-Bienne, SUI.), Andrew Gordon, Derek Roy (both Linköping, SWE), Taylor Beck (Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg, RUS./KHL), Cory Emmerton (Ambri-Piotta, SUI.), David McIntyre (Zug, SUI.), Trevor Parkes (Augsburg, GER.), Greg Scott (CSKA Moscow, RUS./KHL), Paul Szczechura (Traktor Chelyabinsk, RUS./KHL), James Wright (Admiral Vladivostok, RUS./KHL)

 

[intoronto 5,641]

And retired players like Jarome Iginla and Shane Doan would be likely as well (granted they do not get NHL contracts).