2042-43 Season
Fresh off the afterglow of winning our first Stanley Cup, the Eagles earned a second straight President's Trophy with a 54-19-3-6 record for 117 points, 11 ahead of the Kyiv Arrows.
Marius Lueger took another huge step forward in his evolution into arguably the best forward in franchise history. He smashed Manfred Poestinger's team goals record (41) and his own points record (89), racking up 47 and 99 respectively. Despite coming just shy of the century mark, he produced the best season by a forward this franchise has ever seen. And he's still only 24.
His linemate Albert Bulygin also took his career to new heights with a personal best 85 points, including 38 goals. Fabian Bieler had another strong year with 31 goals and 74 points while centering the second line, and top line RW Wyszemir Demidowicz recorded 29 goals and 72 points.
With seven 20-goal scorers on this year's team, secondary scoring came from Maxim Koulikov (58 points), Adolf Grundmann (53), Florian Heideck (45) and Norihiro Mizuguchi (40). Thile Linesch led the blueline with a particularly strong year, posting 45 points.
Among our rookies, Etienne Grun notched 10 goals and 23 points, Dmitri Gritsenko had 17 assists on the back end, and Marlo Wichsberger managed four goals and nine points in 69 games. When the AHL Alpines suffered an injury crisis down the middle, Wichsberger went down and posted 20 points in 13 games, allowing Albert Eler an extended run in the NHL lineup. Eler played in 16 games with two goals and five points.
Defencemen Burkhard Janz (3-0-1-1) and Christian Pajonk (2-0-0-0) had brief call-ups as well.
Between the pipes, Bernhard Keurorst played 62 games, winning 44 of them with a 2.50 GAA and .888 SP. Sylvain Puglisi managed slightly better numbers in his 21 appearances, with a 2.48 GAA and .899 SP. But age and vopatization are catching up with him and August Fingerlos could end up in the backup job next year.
In Vaduz, rookie winger Urs Lachkovics had a great year, leading the club in scoring with 39 goals and 61 points. The former 1st round pick still needs a lot of work on his defensive game. Heinz Herrmann missed 21 games to injury but posted 50 points in 61 games. Winger Slavomir Sikora had 46 points while Basile Calzaghe recorded 41 in 69 games. Helmuth Sykora was the top-scoring defenceman with 10 goals and 35 points.
In net, Fingerlos started 51 games with a .900 SP and 1.71 GAA. Stefan Surilla got into 31 games with a .903 SP and 1.84 GAA. Goaltending was a big factor in the Alpines finishing sixth in the league.
In the playoffs... well, the less said about the playoffs, the better. The #8 seed St. Petersburg Scepters finished 27 points behind us and we won the first two games, but EHM had other plans. The Scepters knocked us around on their home ice with a pair of 6-2 losses. The pattern of home team wins continued until Game 7 when they handed us a 5-2 defeat in Geneva.
Looks like the Stanley Cup hangover got to us. Thank God we won it last year, because much of this team's core is aging quickly. We're likely to lose most or all of Linesch, Grundmann, Koulikov, Valeri Tysmainitsov and Keurorst to retirement in the next couple years. Our high-octane scorers are still young but we could be wandering in the tall grass for a while without the rest of the core. The impending loss of Keurorst might actually be the most concerning because decent OCP goalies have been so hard to come by in the draft. We've never had a goalie higher than 75 OA, and that was Benjamin Conz. None of the guys in our system are anything to write home about in terms of starter potential.
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At the 2043 draft, we made a deal with the Brno Blades to move up and get the German youngster we wanted, though it cost us a likely future NHLer in Schett.
To Brno: 30th overall pick, D Paulo Schett, D Kirill Shpigunov
To Geneva: 18th overall pick
Our picks:
18. Kevin Kohning, C
60. Knut Tikhonov, D
88. Arthur Meurisse, RW
90. Helmut Jebens, D
120. Alexander Stenger, D
150. Patrick Trinkl, RW
With a pot boost, Kohning projects as sort of a Fabian Bieler-lite. An elite puckhandler and playmaker, but consistency may be his greatest strength. Defence, not so much but he's a bit better than Bieler in that respect. Tikhonov also needs a pot boost but looks like a mediocre third-pair guy at best with it. Meurisse is most likely a career AHLer but does have some big league potential as a defensive forward.
We got some unsurprising but devastating news not long after the draft. Thile Linesch, the best defenceman in Geneva Eagles history, will retire in a year's time. He'll turn 37 during preseason and will surpass 700 career points during the season. Tysmainitsov (36), Grundmann (35), Koulikov (34) and Plouviez (34) are sticking around for a while yet.
In light of that news, it appears our contending window will slam shut in one year (good luck cobbling together a contending back end without Linesch) so we did something rare. We traded for a roster player, and not just any player but a starting goalie. Since it's technically breaking our rules for this file, we paid a big price.
To Copenhagen: GEN 1st round pick 2044, G August Fingerlos, LW Karl-Heinz Eckhardt
To Geneva: G Kazuharu Okubo
Okubo just turned 33, only eight months younger than Keurorst, so this certainly isn't a long-term solution. At 73 OA and 83 con, he's an upgrade on Keurorst's 72 OA and 78 con and certainly a big upgrade on Puglisi or Fingerlos. Still not what most teams would consider a starter, of course. A former 14th overall pick of the Kyiv Arrows, he's a veteran of 505 NHL games, most of them with Copenhagen. The two will probably split games 60/40 or something like that.
With that, it was finally time to end Sylvain Puglisi's illustrious 15-year career with the Geneva organization.
To Austria: G Sylvain Puglisi + GEN 5th round pick 2044
To Geneva: AUS 4th round pick 2044
After we drafted him 54th overall in 2026, Puglisi starred for the Vaduz Alpines for 10 years, playing 530 games and winning 328 of them. Once he turned 30 and was no longer AHL-eligible, he earned the Eagles' backup job, playing 176 games over seven years and winning a Stanley Cup last season. He's one of very few Italians to play a significant role on the Eagles over the years. Fare thee well, Sylvain.
To Brno: 30th overall pick, D Paulo Schett, D Kirill Shpigunov
To Geneva: 18th overall pick
Our picks:
18. Kevin Kohning, C
60. Knut Tikhonov, D
88. Arthur Meurisse, RW
90. Helmut Jebens, D
120. Alexander Stenger, D
150. Patrick Trinkl, RW
With a pot boost, Kohning projects as sort of a Fabian Bieler-lite. An elite puckhandler and playmaker, but consistency may be his greatest strength. Defence, not so much but he's a bit better than Bieler in that respect. Tikhonov also needs a pot boost but looks like a mediocre third-pair guy at best with it. Meurisse is most likely a career AHLer but does have some big league potential as a defensive forward.
We got some unsurprising but devastating news not long after the draft. Thile Linesch, the best defenceman in Geneva Eagles history, will retire in a year's time. He'll turn 37 during preseason and will surpass 700 career points during the season. Tysmainitsov (36), Grundmann (35), Koulikov (34) and Plouviez (34) are sticking around for a while yet.
In light of that news, it appears our contending window will slam shut in one year (good luck cobbling together a contending back end without Linesch) so we did something rare. We traded for a roster player, and not just any player but a starting goalie. Since it's technically breaking our rules for this file, we paid a big price.
To Copenhagen: GEN 1st round pick 2044, G August Fingerlos, LW Karl-Heinz Eckhardt
To Geneva: G Kazuharu Okubo
Okubo just turned 33, only eight months younger than Keurorst, so this certainly isn't a long-term solution. At 73 OA and 83 con, he's an upgrade on Keurorst's 72 OA and 78 con and certainly a big upgrade on Puglisi or Fingerlos. Still not what most teams would consider a starter, of course. A former 14th overall pick of the Kyiv Arrows, he's a veteran of 505 NHL games, most of them with Copenhagen. The two will probably split games 60/40 or something like that.
With that, it was finally time to end Sylvain Puglisi's illustrious 15-year career with the Geneva organization.
To Austria: G Sylvain Puglisi + GEN 5th round pick 2044
To Geneva: AUS 4th round pick 2044
After we drafted him 54th overall in 2026, Puglisi starred for the Vaduz Alpines for 10 years, playing 530 games and winning 328 of them. Once he turned 30 and was no longer AHL-eligible, he earned the Eagles' backup job, playing 176 games over seven years and winning a Stanley Cup last season. He's one of very few Italians to play a significant role on the Eagles over the years. Fare thee well, Sylvain.
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By the end of pre-season, Bernhard Keurorst was up to 75 OA. I guess bringing in some real competition for his job, especially after he won the Vezina and Jennings, lit a fire under his ass.
Here's a look at our lines, to remind you what we're dealing with:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (80/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Grundmann (80/70)
Heideck (74/72) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/77)
Wichsberger (69/60) - Plouviez (76/61) - Grun (70/71)
Extra: Eler (74/45)
Linesch (64/89) - Tysmainitsov (62/77)
Guznishchev (69/73) - Kasperczak (41/79)
Shrapnel (56/76) - Gritsenko (41/73)
Keurorst 75/78
Okubo 73/83
Here's a look at our lines, to remind you what we're dealing with:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (80/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Grundmann (80/70)
Heideck (74/72) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/77)
Wichsberger (69/60) - Plouviez (76/61) - Grun (70/71)
Extra: Eler (74/45)
Linesch (64/89) - Tysmainitsov (62/77)
Guznishchev (69/73) - Kasperczak (41/79)
Shrapnel (56/76) - Gritsenko (41/73)
Keurorst 75/78
Okubo 73/83
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2043-44 Season
The Eagles kept rolling in the final year of Thile Linesch's career, earning another President's Trophy with 54 wins and 116 points, 10 ahead of both Helsinki and St. Petersburg.
Several forwards took their game to a new level this year and set personal career bests. Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger tied for the team scoring lead and fourth in the league with 99 points apiece. For Bulygin, whose numbers included 43 goals, it was by far his best season in the NHL. Lueger missed four games and that kept his previous points record (by virtue of 47 goals last year) intact. He had 37 this season.
Without those games missed Lueger might have finished as high as second in league scoring, but he wasn't going to catch Art Ross winner Grigori Luzhkov of Bratislava.
Fabian Bieler also shattered his previous career best of 75 points, putting up 91 this year, including 41 goals. Wyszemir Demidowicz had 32 goals and 73 points to edge out his best as well. Secondary scoring came from Maxim Koulikov (30 goals, 68 points), Adolf Grundmann (34, 64) and Florian Heideck (28, 52). Further down in the lineup, sophomore winger Etienne Grun took a big leap forward with 17 goals and 37 points.
Lueger, Bulygin and Bieler were all named to Team World for the All-Star Game, while Bulygin made the 1st all-star team at the end of the year.
The truly ridiculous stat from this season was the fact we had six 30+ goal scorers, including two over 40. And we were two goals by Heideck away from having seven. We also had 12 players put up at least 10 goals.
On the back end, Valeri Tysmainitsov had the best offensive season of his career with 45 points, including 11 goals. Linesch managed 36 points in his last season, one point ahead of Alexei Guznishchev.
As our 13th forward Albert Eler got into 38 games, with nine points, while Urs Lachkovics was called up for two games and dazzled with a pair of goals and an assist.
In net, things got interesting after our off-season trade for Kazuharu Okubo. Other than one hot stretch of play, he struggled in the backup job and was outclassed by Bernhard Keurorst by a wide margin. So in February, we saw a chance to get a younger backup, not quite as talented but more consistent:
To Magnitogorsk: G Kazuharu Okubo, RW Yann Labiche, 2045 3rd rd pick
To Geneva: G Friedrich Endress + RW Hans-Jurgen Wachter
Endress, a 29-year-old German, had actually spent most of the season being wasted in the AHL, with only four starts for Magnitogorsk. At 68 OA and 88 con, he'll provide a solid backup to Keurorst for a few more years and once our Austrian starter retires, Endress could end up as the starter given how scarce good OCP goalies are in the draft.
Labiche (61/48) was on the fourth line in the AHL so we dealt him for a former Eagles draft pick, Wachter (brother to current AHL prospect Zelimir Wachter) who is more suited to that role at 53/61.
Endress did quite well in Geneva after the trade. In 20 starts, he went 11-4-2-2 with a .893 SP and 3.17 GAA. Keurorst, in 52 games, went 34-13-1-2 with a .899 SP and 2.83 GAA.
In the AHL, rookie centre and 1st round pick Florian Wilhelm led the league in scoring with 102 points, including 77 assists. We certainly didn't expect a pro debut like that from him. Lachkovics posted 73 points, including 47 goals, while Slavomir Sikora had 35 goals and 63 points. Rookie Wlodzimierz Balzac led the back end in scoring with 24 points.
We suddenly have quite a few good defensive forward prospects in Vaduz. Zelimir Wachter and Beat Koell both showed major growth this year, alongside fellow Selke types Przybywoj Chmara and Dmitr Cysewski.
In net, Stefan Surilla was a big part of the Alpines finishing fourth overall. With a heavy workload of 67 starts, he posted 40 wins, a .900 SP and 2.17 GAA. Rookie backup Pavel Stanchinsky got into 16 games with a 2.55 GAA but a rough .869 SP.
Wilhelm and Surilla both made the year-end AHL all-star teams.
For the third time in the last five years, we matched up against the Kyiv Arrows in the first round. And this time they had our number. Despite finishing 27 points behind us, and the Eagles gaining a 2-1 series lead, Kyiv won the next three to eliminate us in the first round for the second straight year.
That was probably our last best chance to win another Cup for a long time. There's still a solid core for the near future but without Linesch, we'll be behind the eight-ball. With Tysmainitsov also vopatizing badly this year (and Shrapnel and Kasperczak perhaps not far behind), our blueline is going to be the equivalent of mush before long. It doesn't look like anyone on the Vaduz back end has an NHL future either, but a couple may be called into service on the third pair even if they're AHL top pair material at best. Of our recent draft picks on defence, only Knut Tikhonov and maaaaybe Jaromir Reisenauer have even the faintest prayer of becoming NHLers.
The Eagles kept rolling in the final year of Thile Linesch's career, earning another President's Trophy with 54 wins and 116 points, 10 ahead of both Helsinki and St. Petersburg.
Several forwards took their game to a new level this year and set personal career bests. Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger tied for the team scoring lead and fourth in the league with 99 points apiece. For Bulygin, whose numbers included 43 goals, it was by far his best season in the NHL. Lueger missed four games and that kept his previous points record (by virtue of 47 goals last year) intact. He had 37 this season.
Without those games missed Lueger might have finished as high as second in league scoring, but he wasn't going to catch Art Ross winner Grigori Luzhkov of Bratislava.
Fabian Bieler also shattered his previous career best of 75 points, putting up 91 this year, including 41 goals. Wyszemir Demidowicz had 32 goals and 73 points to edge out his best as well. Secondary scoring came from Maxim Koulikov (30 goals, 68 points), Adolf Grundmann (34, 64) and Florian Heideck (28, 52). Further down in the lineup, sophomore winger Etienne Grun took a big leap forward with 17 goals and 37 points.
Lueger, Bulygin and Bieler were all named to Team World for the All-Star Game, while Bulygin made the 1st all-star team at the end of the year.
The truly ridiculous stat from this season was the fact we had six 30+ goal scorers, including two over 40. And we were two goals by Heideck away from having seven. We also had 12 players put up at least 10 goals.
On the back end, Valeri Tysmainitsov had the best offensive season of his career with 45 points, including 11 goals. Linesch managed 36 points in his last season, one point ahead of Alexei Guznishchev.
As our 13th forward Albert Eler got into 38 games, with nine points, while Urs Lachkovics was called up for two games and dazzled with a pair of goals and an assist.
In net, things got interesting after our off-season trade for Kazuharu Okubo. Other than one hot stretch of play, he struggled in the backup job and was outclassed by Bernhard Keurorst by a wide margin. So in February, we saw a chance to get a younger backup, not quite as talented but more consistent:
To Magnitogorsk: G Kazuharu Okubo, RW Yann Labiche, 2045 3rd rd pick
To Geneva: G Friedrich Endress + RW Hans-Jurgen Wachter
Endress, a 29-year-old German, had actually spent most of the season being wasted in the AHL, with only four starts for Magnitogorsk. At 68 OA and 88 con, he'll provide a solid backup to Keurorst for a few more years and once our Austrian starter retires, Endress could end up as the starter given how scarce good OCP goalies are in the draft.
Labiche (61/48) was on the fourth line in the AHL so we dealt him for a former Eagles draft pick, Wachter (brother to current AHL prospect Zelimir Wachter) who is more suited to that role at 53/61.
Endress did quite well in Geneva after the trade. In 20 starts, he went 11-4-2-2 with a .893 SP and 3.17 GAA. Keurorst, in 52 games, went 34-13-1-2 with a .899 SP and 2.83 GAA.
In the AHL, rookie centre and 1st round pick Florian Wilhelm led the league in scoring with 102 points, including 77 assists. We certainly didn't expect a pro debut like that from him. Lachkovics posted 73 points, including 47 goals, while Slavomir Sikora had 35 goals and 63 points. Rookie Wlodzimierz Balzac led the back end in scoring with 24 points.
We suddenly have quite a few good defensive forward prospects in Vaduz. Zelimir Wachter and Beat Koell both showed major growth this year, alongside fellow Selke types Przybywoj Chmara and Dmitr Cysewski.
In net, Stefan Surilla was a big part of the Alpines finishing fourth overall. With a heavy workload of 67 starts, he posted 40 wins, a .900 SP and 2.17 GAA. Rookie backup Pavel Stanchinsky got into 16 games with a 2.55 GAA but a rough .869 SP.
Wilhelm and Surilla both made the year-end AHL all-star teams.
For the third time in the last five years, we matched up against the Kyiv Arrows in the first round. And this time they had our number. Despite finishing 27 points behind us, and the Eagles gaining a 2-1 series lead, Kyiv won the next three to eliminate us in the first round for the second straight year.
That was probably our last best chance to win another Cup for a long time. There's still a solid core for the near future but without Linesch, we'll be behind the eight-ball. With Tysmainitsov also vopatizing badly this year (and Shrapnel and Kasperczak perhaps not far behind), our blueline is going to be the equivalent of mush before long. It doesn't look like anyone on the Vaduz back end has an NHL future either, but a couple may be called into service on the third pair even if they're AHL top pair material at best. Of our recent draft picks on defence, only Knut Tikhonov and maaaaybe Jaromir Reisenauer have even the faintest prayer of becoming NHLers.
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2044 draft:
60. Stanislav Bezuhov, C
90. Adolf Odenthal, D
95. Vitus Wiplinger, D
120. Vitali Feofanov, RW
150. Orell Neuner, RW
With our 1st gone to Copenhagen in the Okubo/Endress business, it wasn't much of a draft class. Bezuhov could end up as a poor man's Adolf Grundmann, a decent 2nd liner but only if he gets a double pot boost. Odenthal would also need a double pot boost to make the show, in which case he'd be a similar player to Elmar Shrapnel.
The biggest story of the off-season though was Thile Linesch's retirement. The 37-year-old is widely considered the best player in Eagles history, with Otto Goermer the only one who could come even close.
When we drafted Linesch third overall out of Dusseldorf in 2024, it was a franchise-altering moment. The hardest part of building a decent team for us was finding NHL-calibre defencemen, and here was a budding superstar in our lap. After one year in the AHL, he made the jump and never looked back. He scored his first point in his first game on October 6, 2025, assisting on a goal by a right winger named Rudiger Schwartstein, who believe it or not once held Geneva's single-season points record with... 8. Yes, eight points in 82 games. That shows how bad our team was when Linesch was drafted and how far he's taken us.
In 1,544 career games, Linesch piled up 142 goals and 719 points, easily our highest-scoring defenceman of all time. In 224 playoff games he added 121 points. In a single season his career bests were 11 goals, 43 assists and 54 points. He never got much recognition in terms of accolades, never being nominated for the Norris, mainly because he didn't put up points at the same rate as others. But if I had to choose one d-man to defend a one-goal lead in Game 7, it was him. He was one of the most dominant defensive rearguards in the league.
Linesch was durable too. In 19 seasons, he only missed 15 regular season games to injury - and 13 of those were from a single leg injury late in the 2028-29 season.
With him gone, our blueline and team as a whole takes a huge hit. Thankfully, former third-round pick Jaromir Reisenauer had a great first year in the AHL and a strong training camp to win the vacant spot. He was never expected to challenge for a spot this soon, but his game is on par with third-pair dman Dmitri Gritsenko. And unlike Gritsenko, Reisenauer has a lot of untapped offensive potential.
Two more key players will retire in a year's time: Grundmann and defenceman Valeri Tysmainitsov. The exodus of retiring players will continue for a few more years.
I'm quite interested to see how far our team falls in the standings in the first year without Linesch, on top of significant vopatization to several other players. Here's what the lineup looks like going into 2044-45:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (80/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Grundmann (80/70)
Heideck (74/72) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/77)
Wichsberger (70/61) - Plouviez (70/55) - Grun (69/71)
Ex: Eler (74/45)
Kasperczak (41/79) - Tysmainitsov (58/76)
Guznishchev (69/73) - Shrapnel (56/76)
Reisenauer (42/73) - Gritsenko (42/73)
Keurorst (75 OA)
Endress (70 OA)
60. Stanislav Bezuhov, C
90. Adolf Odenthal, D
95. Vitus Wiplinger, D
120. Vitali Feofanov, RW
150. Orell Neuner, RW
With our 1st gone to Copenhagen in the Okubo/Endress business, it wasn't much of a draft class. Bezuhov could end up as a poor man's Adolf Grundmann, a decent 2nd liner but only if he gets a double pot boost. Odenthal would also need a double pot boost to make the show, in which case he'd be a similar player to Elmar Shrapnel.
The biggest story of the off-season though was Thile Linesch's retirement. The 37-year-old is widely considered the best player in Eagles history, with Otto Goermer the only one who could come even close.
When we drafted Linesch third overall out of Dusseldorf in 2024, it was a franchise-altering moment. The hardest part of building a decent team for us was finding NHL-calibre defencemen, and here was a budding superstar in our lap. After one year in the AHL, he made the jump and never looked back. He scored his first point in his first game on October 6, 2025, assisting on a goal by a right winger named Rudiger Schwartstein, who believe it or not once held Geneva's single-season points record with... 8. Yes, eight points in 82 games. That shows how bad our team was when Linesch was drafted and how far he's taken us.
In 1,544 career games, Linesch piled up 142 goals and 719 points, easily our highest-scoring defenceman of all time. In 224 playoff games he added 121 points. In a single season his career bests were 11 goals, 43 assists and 54 points. He never got much recognition in terms of accolades, never being nominated for the Norris, mainly because he didn't put up points at the same rate as others. But if I had to choose one d-man to defend a one-goal lead in Game 7, it was him. He was one of the most dominant defensive rearguards in the league.
Linesch was durable too. In 19 seasons, he only missed 15 regular season games to injury - and 13 of those were from a single leg injury late in the 2028-29 season.
With him gone, our blueline and team as a whole takes a huge hit. Thankfully, former third-round pick Jaromir Reisenauer had a great first year in the AHL and a strong training camp to win the vacant spot. He was never expected to challenge for a spot this soon, but his game is on par with third-pair dman Dmitri Gritsenko. And unlike Gritsenko, Reisenauer has a lot of untapped offensive potential.
Two more key players will retire in a year's time: Grundmann and defenceman Valeri Tysmainitsov. The exodus of retiring players will continue for a few more years.
I'm quite interested to see how far our team falls in the standings in the first year without Linesch, on top of significant vopatization to several other players. Here's what the lineup looks like going into 2044-45:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (80/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Grundmann (80/70)
Heideck (74/72) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/77)
Wichsberger (70/61) - Plouviez (70/55) - Grun (69/71)
Ex: Eler (74/45)
Kasperczak (41/79) - Tysmainitsov (58/76)
Guznishchev (69/73) - Shrapnel (56/76)
Reisenauer (42/73) - Gritsenko (42/73)
Keurorst (75 OA)
Endress (70 OA)
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As the trades for Okubo and then Endress signified, with so much of our core vopatizing and headed for retirement - and a lack of ready-made replacements on D and in net - we're now a little more willing to explore trades for OCP players, as long as we overpay to ensure there is a price for bending the rules from the start of the file.
So we made another deal early in the season.
To Bratislava: C Manuel Plouviez + C Basile Calzaghe
To Geneva: LW Masataka Sugiyama
Both these players have been in our organization for a long time. Plouviez is starting to vopatize, but he's still an ace in the faceoff dot who can contribute as a fourth liner. In 915 games with the Eagles, he has 152 goals and 391 points.
Calzaghe has been a staple in the Vaduz top six for years, and the Italian also has 39 NHL games under his belt with 10 points. In 443 AHL games, he posted 291 points for the Alpines.
Sugiyama (70/58) has a very similar skill set to Plouviez, also very poor defensively, but at 24 he has room to grow at both ends of the ice. In 98 NHL games between Bratislava and Helsinki, he's posted 12 goals and 29 points.
Sugiyama slotted in at fourth line LW, pushing Marlo Wichsberger back over to centre. The Japanese national got off to a hot start with his new team with seven goals and 18 points through 30 games.
Meanwhile, the post-Linesch era got off to a rocky start for the Eagles, but through two months of the season they've stabilized and sit fourth overall in the league. The play of Friedrich Endress, who has earned more starts than Bernhard Keurorst so far, is a big reason for that.
So we made another deal early in the season.
To Bratislava: C Manuel Plouviez + C Basile Calzaghe
To Geneva: LW Masataka Sugiyama
Both these players have been in our organization for a long time. Plouviez is starting to vopatize, but he's still an ace in the faceoff dot who can contribute as a fourth liner. In 915 games with the Eagles, he has 152 goals and 391 points.
Calzaghe has been a staple in the Vaduz top six for years, and the Italian also has 39 NHL games under his belt with 10 points. In 443 AHL games, he posted 291 points for the Alpines.
Sugiyama (70/58) has a very similar skill set to Plouviez, also very poor defensively, but at 24 he has room to grow at both ends of the ice. In 98 NHL games between Bratislava and Helsinki, he's posted 12 goals and 29 points.
Sugiyama slotted in at fourth line LW, pushing Marlo Wichsberger back over to centre. The Japanese national got off to a hot start with his new team with seven goals and 18 points through 30 games.
Meanwhile, the post-Linesch era got off to a rocky start for the Eagles, but through two months of the season they've stabilized and sit fourth overall in the league. The play of Friedrich Endress, who has earned more starts than Bernhard Keurorst so far, is a big reason for that.
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2044-45 Season:
Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger cemented themselves as the most potent scoring duo in Eagles history this season. Both rocketed past Lueger's previous franchise record into 100-point territory. Bulygin laid down the best season in franchise history with 49 goals and 112 points, becoming the first Geneva player ever to lead the league in scoring. Lueger finished third in the league with 41 goals and 106 points.
Bulygin got plenty of recognition this year. He was named player of the week three times, player of the month twice - for October and January - was a starter at the All-Star Game, and will now win the Art Ross and maybe the Hart Trophy.
Linemate Wyszemir Demidowicz also had by far his best season with 39 goals and 98 points, finishing eighth in league scoring to give us three players in the top 10. Fabian Bieler dropped off a bit from last year but was still productive with 40 goals and 84 points.
Secondary scoring was provided by Maxim Koulikov (56 points), Norihiro Mizuguchi (54) who had a nice bounceback year and Adolf Grundmann with 50 in his last NHL season. Alexei Guznishchev led our defencemen with 10 goals and 41 points, while Valeri Tysmainitsov posted 35 in his last year in the league.
New acquisition Masataka Sugiyama finished the year with nine goals and 28 points in 70 games. The 25-year-old hasn't shown a lot of improvement yet but has been a capable replacement for Plouviez at least.
Shutdown centre Przybywoj Chmara (3-0-0-0) and scoring winger Gernot Knabl (4-0-0-0) were both held scoreless in brief call-ups.
In net, a strong stretch of play by Bernhard Keurorst late in the year helped him take the starter's job, which had been up for grabs all year, from Friedrich Endress. Until then Endress had been the better goalie, but both got yanked several times during blowouts. Keurorst posted a .904 SP and 3.19 GAA in 44 games, while Endress had a .893 SP and 3.49 GAA in 42 appearances.
As a whole, the Eagles took a small step back in the first year without Thile Linesch, but still finished fourth in the league with 103 points. That put us second in the West, behind Minsk.
In Vaduz, the Alpines finished tops in the AHL with 108 points, one ahead of a pair of challengers. Urs Lachkovics led the club in scoring with a breakthrough 58-goal, 103-point season. Zelimir Wachter had 41 goals and 88 points, while Beat Koell scored 26 and 79 respectively. Sophomore centre Florian Wilhelm put up 25 goals and 74 points in 69 games.
The Eagles will face the #7 Togliatti Ticking Time Bombs, who finished 15 points back, in the first round.
Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger cemented themselves as the most potent scoring duo in Eagles history this season. Both rocketed past Lueger's previous franchise record into 100-point territory. Bulygin laid down the best season in franchise history with 49 goals and 112 points, becoming the first Geneva player ever to lead the league in scoring. Lueger finished third in the league with 41 goals and 106 points.
Bulygin got plenty of recognition this year. He was named player of the week three times, player of the month twice - for October and January - was a starter at the All-Star Game, and will now win the Art Ross and maybe the Hart Trophy.
Linemate Wyszemir Demidowicz also had by far his best season with 39 goals and 98 points, finishing eighth in league scoring to give us three players in the top 10. Fabian Bieler dropped off a bit from last year but was still productive with 40 goals and 84 points.
Secondary scoring was provided by Maxim Koulikov (56 points), Norihiro Mizuguchi (54) who had a nice bounceback year and Adolf Grundmann with 50 in his last NHL season. Alexei Guznishchev led our defencemen with 10 goals and 41 points, while Valeri Tysmainitsov posted 35 in his last year in the league.
New acquisition Masataka Sugiyama finished the year with nine goals and 28 points in 70 games. The 25-year-old hasn't shown a lot of improvement yet but has been a capable replacement for Plouviez at least.
Shutdown centre Przybywoj Chmara (3-0-0-0) and scoring winger Gernot Knabl (4-0-0-0) were both held scoreless in brief call-ups.
In net, a strong stretch of play by Bernhard Keurorst late in the year helped him take the starter's job, which had been up for grabs all year, from Friedrich Endress. Until then Endress had been the better goalie, but both got yanked several times during blowouts. Keurorst posted a .904 SP and 3.19 GAA in 44 games, while Endress had a .893 SP and 3.49 GAA in 42 appearances.
As a whole, the Eagles took a small step back in the first year without Thile Linesch, but still finished fourth in the league with 103 points. That put us second in the West, behind Minsk.
In Vaduz, the Alpines finished tops in the AHL with 108 points, one ahead of a pair of challengers. Urs Lachkovics led the club in scoring with a breakthrough 58-goal, 103-point season. Zelimir Wachter had 41 goals and 88 points, while Beat Koell scored 26 and 79 respectively. Sophomore centre Florian Wilhelm put up 25 goals and 74 points in 69 games.
The Eagles will face the #7 Togliatti Ticking Time Bombs, who finished 15 points back, in the first round.
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It was another short, miserable playoff run. We were swept by the underdog Time Bombs. After the first three losses we replaced Keurorst with Endress but it made no difference. We also dressed Wachter and Koell for their first NHL action in place of Wichsberger and Sugiyama. They're ready for the big league now and one will get Grundmann's spot next year.
Minsk went on to win the Cup. At the awards ceremony, Bulygin took home the first-ever Hart Trophy for a Geneva player. It was great to see him finally realize his huge potential this year. He also made the league 1st all-star team and Lueger was on the 2nd.
Stefan Surilla was named to the AHL 1st all-star team for the second straight year and Urs Lachkovics made the 2nd team.
Our 2045 draft:
27. Kabok Medvedev, D
57. Richard Wendt, RW
87. Knut Skvortsov, C
117. Yaroslav Udalov, RW
142. Adolf Kirschner, C
147. Ravil Zhidichin, LW
Medvedev has the upside, with a pot boost, to be the best offensive defenceman we've ever had, and quite competent defensively too (think Tysmainitsov). We desperately need to find good defencemen in the next few drafts and here's a potential top pair guy. The rest won't amount to much.
Minsk went on to win the Cup. At the awards ceremony, Bulygin took home the first-ever Hart Trophy for a Geneva player. It was great to see him finally realize his huge potential this year. He also made the league 1st all-star team and Lueger was on the 2nd.
Stefan Surilla was named to the AHL 1st all-star team for the second straight year and Urs Lachkovics made the 2nd team.
Our 2045 draft:
27. Kabok Medvedev, D
57. Richard Wendt, RW
87. Knut Skvortsov, C
117. Yaroslav Udalov, RW
142. Adolf Kirschner, C
147. Ravil Zhidichin, LW
Medvedev has the upside, with a pot boost, to be the best offensive defenceman we've ever had, and quite competent defensively too (think Tysmainitsov). We desperately need to find good defencemen in the next few drafts and here's a potential top pair guy. The rest won't amount to much.
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The next wave of retirements hit us in the summer of 2045, with Valeri Tysmainitsov and Adolf Grundmann calling it quits.
Tysmainitsov, 37, finishes with 90 goals and 491 points in 1,275 career games. He was a steady #2 dman partnered with Thile Linesch for nearly all of them. Tysmainitsov was a very important member of a blueline that has always been a weakness in terms of depth. He vopatized down to 55/73 this year but at 62/78 at his best, he was key for us at both ends of the ice, on the first PK unit and second PP unit. Drafted 66th overall in 2025 (one year after Linesch), his career bests in a season were 11 goals and 45 points.
Grundmann, also 37, played a significant top six role for years and years but I always felt he never quite reached his potential, other than one year late in his career when he posted 34 goals and 72 points. He was picked the same year as Tysmainitsov, one round earlier at 36th overall, when we were still far out of the playoff picture. He helped get us there and retires with 429 goals and 883 points in 1,404 games.
Grundmann will be easy to replace, with a few forward prospects chomping at the bit. Tysmainitsov will be EXTREMELY difficult to replace with a complete lack of NHL-ready defencemen in Vaduz.
In July, I was going through our player records when I discovered, to my disappointment, that rookie defender Jaromir Reisenauer is from the Czech Republic. We're not allowed to draft players from there or any of the other big 7 countries. No idea how we missed that on draft day a few years ago, but I'd thought he was German.
Sorry Jaromir, but you're gone. We made another deal for an OCP (other-country player) on another team:
To Minsk: D Jaromir Reisenauer, RW Albert Eler, D Vitus Wiplinger, 2046 3rd round pick
To Geneva: D Jacques Rosen
Rosen, 29, is a slight downgrade defensively on Reisenauer, but a big improvement on offence. Reisenauer has significant untapped offensive potential, so I'm comfortable with this deal. Rosen (63/73) has 349 points in 735 career games on the back end. He'll likely compete for a second-pair spot with how poor our defence corps is becoming.
Reisenauer posted two goals and nine points in his only season with us. Albert Eler leaves the Eagles organization with 247 NHL games and 62 points under his belt. Wiplinger was our (early) fourth round pick in 2044.
By the end of training camp, we decided to promote Burkhard Janz (40/67) as our #6 defenceman. That's pretty brutal but there's simply no one better. Janz does have some room to grow defensively but I don't see him ever becoming a legitimate NHL talent. Kabok Medvedev can't develop fast enough.
Our lineup for 2045-46:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (78/73) - Bieler (86/66) - Heideck (74/72)
Z. Wachter* (71/73) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/78)
Sugiyama (70/60) - Koell* (67/75) - Grun (70/71)
Ex: Wichsberger (71/61)
Shrapnel (56/75) - Kasperczak (39/78)
Rosen (63/73) - Guznishchev (69/73)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Janz* (40/67)
Keurorst (75 OA)
Endress (70 OA)
We decided Koell and Wachter have both waited long enough and both are better than multiple current players, so Wichsberger is demoted to 13th forward. He's 27 now and hasn't grown nearly as much as we hoped.
Tysmainitsov, 37, finishes with 90 goals and 491 points in 1,275 career games. He was a steady #2 dman partnered with Thile Linesch for nearly all of them. Tysmainitsov was a very important member of a blueline that has always been a weakness in terms of depth. He vopatized down to 55/73 this year but at 62/78 at his best, he was key for us at both ends of the ice, on the first PK unit and second PP unit. Drafted 66th overall in 2025 (one year after Linesch), his career bests in a season were 11 goals and 45 points.
Grundmann, also 37, played a significant top six role for years and years but I always felt he never quite reached his potential, other than one year late in his career when he posted 34 goals and 72 points. He was picked the same year as Tysmainitsov, one round earlier at 36th overall, when we were still far out of the playoff picture. He helped get us there and retires with 429 goals and 883 points in 1,404 games.
Grundmann will be easy to replace, with a few forward prospects chomping at the bit. Tysmainitsov will be EXTREMELY difficult to replace with a complete lack of NHL-ready defencemen in Vaduz.
In July, I was going through our player records when I discovered, to my disappointment, that rookie defender Jaromir Reisenauer is from the Czech Republic. We're not allowed to draft players from there or any of the other big 7 countries. No idea how we missed that on draft day a few years ago, but I'd thought he was German.
Sorry Jaromir, but you're gone. We made another deal for an OCP (other-country player) on another team:
To Minsk: D Jaromir Reisenauer, RW Albert Eler, D Vitus Wiplinger, 2046 3rd round pick
To Geneva: D Jacques Rosen
Rosen, 29, is a slight downgrade defensively on Reisenauer, but a big improvement on offence. Reisenauer has significant untapped offensive potential, so I'm comfortable with this deal. Rosen (63/73) has 349 points in 735 career games on the back end. He'll likely compete for a second-pair spot with how poor our defence corps is becoming.
Reisenauer posted two goals and nine points in his only season with us. Albert Eler leaves the Eagles organization with 247 NHL games and 62 points under his belt. Wiplinger was our (early) fourth round pick in 2044.
By the end of training camp, we decided to promote Burkhard Janz (40/67) as our #6 defenceman. That's pretty brutal but there's simply no one better. Janz does have some room to grow defensively but I don't see him ever becoming a legitimate NHL talent. Kabok Medvedev can't develop fast enough.
Our lineup for 2045-46:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/74) - Demidowicz (83/70)
Koulikov (78/73) - Bieler (86/66) - Heideck (74/72)
Z. Wachter* (71/73) - Mizuguchi (71/78) - Regel (64/78)
Sugiyama (70/60) - Koell* (67/75) - Grun (70/71)
Ex: Wichsberger (71/61)
Shrapnel (56/75) - Kasperczak (39/78)
Rosen (63/73) - Guznishchev (69/73)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Janz* (40/67)
Keurorst (75 OA)
Endress (70 OA)
We decided Koell and Wachter have both waited long enough and both are better than multiple current players, so Wichsberger is demoted to 13th forward. He's 27 now and hasn't grown nearly as much as we hoped.
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After a sluggish start, Albert Bulygin claimed the player of the week honour in late October with a ridiculous 11 points in three games. Can't be certain, but that may be the highest point total a Geneva player has ever put up in a week.
The team as a whole has definitely lost a step though. Friedrich Endress has stolen the starting job from Bernhard Keurorst, appearing in 29 of the first 41 games, but neither goalie has good numbers.
Halfway through the season, Bulygin leads the club in scoring with 25 goals and 57 points (fifth in the league). Marius Lueger is right behind him with 26 goals and 54 points.Wyszemir Demidowicz has recorded 44 points and Fabian Bieler has 39. Maxim Koulikov got off to a horrid start in his final NHL season, but after turning it around he has a modest 10 goals and 24 points. Rookie forwards Zelimir Wachter (30 points) and Beat Koell (20) have both started their NHL careers on the right foot.
In the AHL, Kevin Kohning is having a great rookie pro season with 13 goals and 52 points through 40 games. Fellow forward prospects Urs Lachkovics, Joseph Lector, Gernot Knabl and Fabian Wilhelm round out the top five in scoring for Vaduz.
The team as a whole has definitely lost a step though. Friedrich Endress has stolen the starting job from Bernhard Keurorst, appearing in 29 of the first 41 games, but neither goalie has good numbers.
Halfway through the season, Bulygin leads the club in scoring with 25 goals and 57 points (fifth in the league). Marius Lueger is right behind him with 26 goals and 54 points.Wyszemir Demidowicz has recorded 44 points and Fabian Bieler has 39. Maxim Koulikov got off to a horrid start in his final NHL season, but after turning it around he has a modest 10 goals and 24 points. Rookie forwards Zelimir Wachter (30 points) and Beat Koell (20) have both started their NHL careers on the right foot.
In the AHL, Kevin Kohning is having a great rookie pro season with 13 goals and 52 points through 40 games. Fellow forward prospects Urs Lachkovics, Joseph Lector, Gernot Knabl and Fabian Wilhelm round out the top five in scoring for Vaduz.
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On February 16, Maxim Koulikov became the second player in Eagles history to hit the 1,000-point mark in a game against Togliatti. It took him 1,449 games to get there. Great for him to hit the milestone with 23 games left in his career.
Otto Goermer remains our all-time leading scorer with 1,105 points.
Otto Goermer remains our all-time leading scorer with 1,105 points.
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2045-46 Season
For the second straight year, Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger were the class of the league, the brightest of all the stars. This time they traded places in the points race and Marius Lueger won his first-ever Hart and Art Ross Trophies, blowing past Bulygin's just-set franchise points record with 119, including another franchise record with 51 goals.
We've long known Lueger is the most skilled player Geneva has ever had, with the potential to put up explosive numbers. Otto Goermer was never even in the same stratosphere as this 27-year-old Swiss super stud.
Bulygin had an excellent follow-up campaign after his own record-breaking Hart and Art Ross year, posting one more point (113) including 47 goals. These two have finished 1-2 in league scoring two straight years, with no one even close to them. Considering the average of both their shooting and playmaking ratings is 98.75, maybe that's not surprising.
As for the team - for the first 30 games or so, we hovered around the playoff bubble (or worse) and it looked like the losses of Linesch, compounded by Grundmann and Tysmainitsov, were finally taking their toll. In another 15-20 games we were in the top half dozen teams, and a dominant run after the all-star break helped the Eagles seize first overall by a single point over London. It was a remarkable turnaround for a team which by that time had no defencemen with better than 75 DF, thanks to vopatizing.
Our rookies were a big part of our success, and one of them brought home some hardware. But we also had better secondary scoring than usual with some unlikely suspects. Fabian Bieler had another solid year with 34 goals and 82 points while Wyszemir Demidowicz put up 39 goals and 77 points. Max Koulikov turned it around after a slow start to his last season and finished with 67 points, for 1,027 in his career. Even Norihiro Mizuguchi got in on the act with a career-best 60 points, one better than his total in his rookie and sophomore seasons.
But the real jump that came out of nowhere was Florian Heideck. He put up a surprising 28 goals two years ago, but fell off last year. This time around he put up a *shocking* 38 goals and 66 points. He did get a promotion to the second line after Grundmann retired, but this is a guy with 74 OF and, even crazier, a 61 shot.
Both our rookie forwards had excellent first seasons. They were more than ready after some playoff experience and the time marinating in the AHL. Zelimir Wachter produced 15 goals and 49 goals on the third line, which was enough to win him the Calder Trophy over Beat Koell, who had 13 goals and 40 points centering the fourth line, and the other finalist. Both players also developed quite well, finishing the year at 75/77 and 69/82 respectively. That makes Koell already our best defensive player - at any position - after one year in the league. He's going to be a major asset to team defence and the PK over the next few years as we try to transition from all the losses to retirement.
With more opportunity opening up on the back end, Alexei Guznishchev took his offensive output to new levels with 11 goals and 52 points. He never developed past 73 DF, but the Belarussian's massive shot and puckhandling ability give the Eagles a dimension we'd otherwise not have. Elmar Shrapnel, suddenly an elder statesman and possibly our best overall d-man, pierced his career-high of 22 points with an explosion for 37.
On deadline day, we decided to end the Masataka Sugiyama experiment. He's been moderately productive the last couple years but hasn't grown the way we hoped. Moving him made room for Urs Lachkovics to come up for the last 12 games. Although he only had one point, he'll make the jump for good next year after four long years in the AHL, more than anyone expected for the 1st round pick.
To Magnitogorsk: LW Masataka Sugiyama, LW Ravil Zhidichin, 2046 4th round pick
To Geneva: 2046 3rd round pick
In similar fashion as last year, Friedrich Endress ran with the starting job in the first half, playing 29 of our first 41 games. But just like 2044-45, once Bernhard Keurorst got in for a few he locked it down and strung together a tremendous run. In the end Endress played 43 games with a 3.43 GAA and .891 SP. Keurorst played 42 with a 3.36 GAA and .887 SP.
In Vaduz, top prospect Kevin Kohning blew onto the AHL scene like a hurricane. The German rookie centre piled up 36 goals and 115 points in 72 games and would have led the league in scoring if he hadn't missed 10 to injury. Fellow 1st rounder Gernot Knabl was also dominant in his first full AHL season with 48 goals and 94 points. Kohning's fellow centre prospects Joseph Lector and Florian Wilhelm had 65 and 52 points respectively. That's easily Wilhelm's worst season of three in the AHL and he still hasn't cracked 50 DF. Neither has Knabl. Lector, just barely. We might have a problem.
Wlodzimierz Balzac again led the Alpines' blueline with 10 goals and 37 points. Stefan Surilla earned his third straight 1st all-star team nod with a 2.14 GAA and career-best .907 SP in 57 games.
To start the playoffs we drew the #8 Riga Rats. We took a 3-1 lead in the series, only to lose the next two games. We swapped out Endress, who was our playoff starter for the first time, for Keurorst and pounded the Latvians 6-2 in Game 7.
The second round against the #6 Copenhagen Great Danes was even more dramatic. We got the W in each of the first three games and then with a chance to close it out, we got destroyed 6-0 in Game 4. The Danes won the next one in OT, then did the same in Game 6, to force a seventh game with all the pressure on us. Now we returned Endress to the net and edged them 3-2 to reach the conference final for the first time since our Cup season of 2042 - in fact it was our first time past the first round since then.
Against the #3 Minsk Wolves, we managed a win in the opener but then our luck abruptly ran out. The Wolves systemically drove us into the ground with four straight wins to send us home in five. They proceeded to do the same to the London Giants to capture their third straight Stanley Cup.
We're going to lose another five roster players to retirement in the next 2-3 years, but this season showed there's hope for our future. Lueger and Bulygin are bona fide superstars who can drag this team on their backs. We've also got a stellar and somewhat young supporting cast, a strong pipeline of scoring prospects, and Endress has shown our goaltending will be OK after Keurorst is done. It's the defence that's the glaring question mark for some time to come.
We had two targets in the 2046 draft, and after our surprising run to the President's Trophy we had to trade up for both of them.
To Ornskoldsvik: 30th overall pick, C Przybywoj Chmara, RW Richard Wendt, 2046 5th round pick
To Geneva: 17th overall pick
To Davos: 60th overall pick + D Alexander Stenger
To Geneva: 58th overall pick
17. Gregor Tchelychev, G
58. Yaroslav Gurevich, C
72. Olympio Prock, D
120. August Stangassinger, D
150. Gregor Knoroz, C
With no goalies in the junior ranks, it was time for us to draft one and Tchelychev is a tailor-made backup at 83 con who could become our starter once Endress is ready to retire.
But Gurevich is the boom or bust prize of this draft. With a double pot boost, he could be a dominant force at both ends of the ice, like a Bulygin who is also elite defensively, which would make him one of the best players in franchise history. With a single pot boost, he would be a solid two-way guy in the bottom six. With no pot boost… forget about it.
Prock is a rare really good 3rd round pick. His game is all about hitting and smooth puck skills. He's got the makings of a solid top 4 and power play guy. All in all, this was a momentous draft for the future of our club.
For the second straight year, Albert Bulygin and Marius Lueger were the class of the league, the brightest of all the stars. This time they traded places in the points race and Marius Lueger won his first-ever Hart and Art Ross Trophies, blowing past Bulygin's just-set franchise points record with 119, including another franchise record with 51 goals.
We've long known Lueger is the most skilled player Geneva has ever had, with the potential to put up explosive numbers. Otto Goermer was never even in the same stratosphere as this 27-year-old Swiss super stud.
Bulygin had an excellent follow-up campaign after his own record-breaking Hart and Art Ross year, posting one more point (113) including 47 goals. These two have finished 1-2 in league scoring two straight years, with no one even close to them. Considering the average of both their shooting and playmaking ratings is 98.75, maybe that's not surprising.
As for the team - for the first 30 games or so, we hovered around the playoff bubble (or worse) and it looked like the losses of Linesch, compounded by Grundmann and Tysmainitsov, were finally taking their toll. In another 15-20 games we were in the top half dozen teams, and a dominant run after the all-star break helped the Eagles seize first overall by a single point over London. It was a remarkable turnaround for a team which by that time had no defencemen with better than 75 DF, thanks to vopatizing.
Our rookies were a big part of our success, and one of them brought home some hardware. But we also had better secondary scoring than usual with some unlikely suspects. Fabian Bieler had another solid year with 34 goals and 82 points while Wyszemir Demidowicz put up 39 goals and 77 points. Max Koulikov turned it around after a slow start to his last season and finished with 67 points, for 1,027 in his career. Even Norihiro Mizuguchi got in on the act with a career-best 60 points, one better than his total in his rookie and sophomore seasons.
But the real jump that came out of nowhere was Florian Heideck. He put up a surprising 28 goals two years ago, but fell off last year. This time around he put up a *shocking* 38 goals and 66 points. He did get a promotion to the second line after Grundmann retired, but this is a guy with 74 OF and, even crazier, a 61 shot.
Both our rookie forwards had excellent first seasons. They were more than ready after some playoff experience and the time marinating in the AHL. Zelimir Wachter produced 15 goals and 49 goals on the third line, which was enough to win him the Calder Trophy over Beat Koell, who had 13 goals and 40 points centering the fourth line, and the other finalist. Both players also developed quite well, finishing the year at 75/77 and 69/82 respectively. That makes Koell already our best defensive player - at any position - after one year in the league. He's going to be a major asset to team defence and the PK over the next few years as we try to transition from all the losses to retirement.
With more opportunity opening up on the back end, Alexei Guznishchev took his offensive output to new levels with 11 goals and 52 points. He never developed past 73 DF, but the Belarussian's massive shot and puckhandling ability give the Eagles a dimension we'd otherwise not have. Elmar Shrapnel, suddenly an elder statesman and possibly our best overall d-man, pierced his career-high of 22 points with an explosion for 37.
On deadline day, we decided to end the Masataka Sugiyama experiment. He's been moderately productive the last couple years but hasn't grown the way we hoped. Moving him made room for Urs Lachkovics to come up for the last 12 games. Although he only had one point, he'll make the jump for good next year after four long years in the AHL, more than anyone expected for the 1st round pick.
To Magnitogorsk: LW Masataka Sugiyama, LW Ravil Zhidichin, 2046 4th round pick
To Geneva: 2046 3rd round pick
In similar fashion as last year, Friedrich Endress ran with the starting job in the first half, playing 29 of our first 41 games. But just like 2044-45, once Bernhard Keurorst got in for a few he locked it down and strung together a tremendous run. In the end Endress played 43 games with a 3.43 GAA and .891 SP. Keurorst played 42 with a 3.36 GAA and .887 SP.
In Vaduz, top prospect Kevin Kohning blew onto the AHL scene like a hurricane. The German rookie centre piled up 36 goals and 115 points in 72 games and would have led the league in scoring if he hadn't missed 10 to injury. Fellow 1st rounder Gernot Knabl was also dominant in his first full AHL season with 48 goals and 94 points. Kohning's fellow centre prospects Joseph Lector and Florian Wilhelm had 65 and 52 points respectively. That's easily Wilhelm's worst season of three in the AHL and he still hasn't cracked 50 DF. Neither has Knabl. Lector, just barely. We might have a problem.
Wlodzimierz Balzac again led the Alpines' blueline with 10 goals and 37 points. Stefan Surilla earned his third straight 1st all-star team nod with a 2.14 GAA and career-best .907 SP in 57 games.
To start the playoffs we drew the #8 Riga Rats. We took a 3-1 lead in the series, only to lose the next two games. We swapped out Endress, who was our playoff starter for the first time, for Keurorst and pounded the Latvians 6-2 in Game 7.
The second round against the #6 Copenhagen Great Danes was even more dramatic. We got the W in each of the first three games and then with a chance to close it out, we got destroyed 6-0 in Game 4. The Danes won the next one in OT, then did the same in Game 6, to force a seventh game with all the pressure on us. Now we returned Endress to the net and edged them 3-2 to reach the conference final for the first time since our Cup season of 2042 - in fact it was our first time past the first round since then.
Against the #3 Minsk Wolves, we managed a win in the opener but then our luck abruptly ran out. The Wolves systemically drove us into the ground with four straight wins to send us home in five. They proceeded to do the same to the London Giants to capture their third straight Stanley Cup.
We're going to lose another five roster players to retirement in the next 2-3 years, but this season showed there's hope for our future. Lueger and Bulygin are bona fide superstars who can drag this team on their backs. We've also got a stellar and somewhat young supporting cast, a strong pipeline of scoring prospects, and Endress has shown our goaltending will be OK after Keurorst is done. It's the defence that's the glaring question mark for some time to come.
We had two targets in the 2046 draft, and after our surprising run to the President's Trophy we had to trade up for both of them.
To Ornskoldsvik: 30th overall pick, C Przybywoj Chmara, RW Richard Wendt, 2046 5th round pick
To Geneva: 17th overall pick
To Davos: 60th overall pick + D Alexander Stenger
To Geneva: 58th overall pick
17. Gregor Tchelychev, G
58. Yaroslav Gurevich, C
72. Olympio Prock, D
120. August Stangassinger, D
150. Gregor Knoroz, C
With no goalies in the junior ranks, it was time for us to draft one and Tchelychev is a tailor-made backup at 83 con who could become our starter once Endress is ready to retire.
But Gurevich is the boom or bust prize of this draft. With a double pot boost, he could be a dominant force at both ends of the ice, like a Bulygin who is also elite defensively, which would make him one of the best players in franchise history. With a single pot boost, he would be a solid two-way guy in the bottom six. With no pot boost… forget about it.
Prock is a rare really good 3rd round pick. His game is all about hitting and smooth puck skills. He's got the makings of a solid top 4 and power play guy. All in all, this was a momentous draft for the future of our club.
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The news got even better in the off-season - no one is retiring in a year's time. Not Keurorst (36), not Kasperczak (35), not Mizuguchi, Regel or Shrapnel (34). That gives us a bit of a reprieve, especially in trying to develop some defencemen into NHLers. Mizuguchi becomes our new captain, taking the torch from Koulikov, who took it from Tysmainitsov and Linesch before him.
Now that we have three high-pedigree centre prospects in Kohning, Wilhelm and Lector, with Wilhelm stagnating and not showing any defensive growth, we decided to trade him for a D prospect who's also an OCP.
To Oslo: C Florian Wilhelm + D Vitus Salvenmoser
To Geneva: D Helmut Krall
Krall, 20, was drafted 46th overall by the Vikings in 2044 - some 20 picks lower than Wilhelm. But he's developing better, even though Oslo only had him play 13 games last season, all with the big club. At 43/69, he could give Burkhard Janz (40/70) a run for the #6 spot in Geneva right now. But since we took a shortcut here and didn't draft Krall, he'll spend at least a year in Vaduz until he's truly ready for the NHL. His potential tops out as a Jacques Rosen type, decent defensively but not enough to be a legitimate top 4 guy, with some offensive contributions. Salvenmoser was our top AHL d-man after Janz was promoted, but Krall is an upgrade on him. Wilhelm will probably turn it around and have a good career in Oslo.
Here's a new look at Vopatization Central, I mean the Eagles roster, for 2046-47:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Demidowicz (83/69)
Heideck (74/73) - Bieler (86/66) - Wachter (75/77)
Mizuguchi (71/78) - Koell (69/82) - Regel (64/78)
Lachkovics* (74/65) - Wichsberger (71/61) - Grun (70/71)
Shrapnel (56/75) - Guznishchev (69/73)
Rosen (63/73) - Kasperczak (36/75)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Janz (40/70)
Keurorst (75/78)
Endress (70/88)
Koulikov's retirement and the trade of Sugiyama mean Wichsberger is one of our 12 regulars again. Koell deserved to be higher than the fourth line with his elite checking and hitting abilities, and now at 91 FA he'll anchor a hell of a checking line with Mizuguchi moving to the wing. They'll each continue to centre one of the PK units. Meanwhile, with Kasperczak continuing to vopatize it was time to unleash Guznishchev's offensive game on the top pair. We'll see how that works out.
Now that we have three high-pedigree centre prospects in Kohning, Wilhelm and Lector, with Wilhelm stagnating and not showing any defensive growth, we decided to trade him for a D prospect who's also an OCP.
To Oslo: C Florian Wilhelm + D Vitus Salvenmoser
To Geneva: D Helmut Krall
Krall, 20, was drafted 46th overall by the Vikings in 2044 - some 20 picks lower than Wilhelm. But he's developing better, even though Oslo only had him play 13 games last season, all with the big club. At 43/69, he could give Burkhard Janz (40/70) a run for the #6 spot in Geneva right now. But since we took a shortcut here and didn't draft Krall, he'll spend at least a year in Vaduz until he's truly ready for the NHL. His potential tops out as a Jacques Rosen type, decent defensively but not enough to be a legitimate top 4 guy, with some offensive contributions. Salvenmoser was our top AHL d-man after Janz was promoted, but Krall is an upgrade on him. Wilhelm will probably turn it around and have a good career in Oslo.
Here's a new look at Vopatization Central, I mean the Eagles roster, for 2046-47:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Demidowicz (83/69)
Heideck (74/73) - Bieler (86/66) - Wachter (75/77)
Mizuguchi (71/78) - Koell (69/82) - Regel (64/78)
Lachkovics* (74/65) - Wichsberger (71/61) - Grun (70/71)
Shrapnel (56/75) - Guznishchev (69/73)
Rosen (63/73) - Kasperczak (36/75)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Janz (40/70)
Keurorst (75/78)
Endress (70/88)
Koulikov's retirement and the trade of Sugiyama mean Wichsberger is one of our 12 regulars again. Koell deserved to be higher than the fourth line with his elite checking and hitting abilities, and now at 91 FA he'll anchor a hell of a checking line with Mizuguchi moving to the wing. They'll each continue to centre one of the PK units. Meanwhile, with Kasperczak continuing to vopatize it was time to unleash Guznishchev's offensive game on the top pair. We'll see how that works out.
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2046-47 season
In spite of our atrocious blueline, the Eagles somehow managed to finish first overall with a record of 53-21-6-2 for 114 points. That's four ahead of Davos and London.
Marius Lueger and Albert Bulygin both slowed down ever so slightly, but still had great years. Lueger finished fifth in the league with 44 goals and 103 points, making it his third straight 100-point season. Bulygin fell just short of the mark, with 39 goals and 96 points for 11th in league scoring.
Wyszemir Demidowicz had one of his best years, posting 34 goals and 86 points. Fabian Bieler, on the other hand, did not have a great year by his standards with 76 points, including 33 goals. Rookie sniper Urs Lachkovics was brilliant with 34 goals and 67 points, enough to finish third in rookie scoring and earn a Calder nomination, along with two rookie of the month awards. Just behind him, Zelimir Wachter had an excellent sophomore season with 29 goals and 66 points. Rounding out a very strong core of secondary scorers was Florian Heideck with 63 points. Meanwhile, Marlo Wichsberger had a career year (not saying much) with 36.
On the back end, Alexei Guznishchev led the contingent with 12 goals and 39 points. Elmar Shrapnel posted 33, followed by Jacques Rosen with 29.
Speaking of rookies, Lachkovics wasn't the only one. Kevin Kohning got an extended call-up thanks to a significant injury to Werner Regel. In only his second pro season, the 21-year-old racked up eight goals and 25 points in 36 games. He's pretty much a guarantee to make next year's roster now.
In net, Friedrich Endress and Bernhard Keurorst split the games almost right down the middle again. Keurorst played 43 games with a .892 SP and 3.19 GAA, while Endress had a .901 SP and 3.05 GAA in 40 games.
We pulled off the double this year with the Vaduz Alpines also taking top spot in the AHL. They won 56 games and racked up 118 points, winning the title by nine points.
Gernot Knabl dominated the league in his second full season. As the only man league-wide to top 100 points, he piled up 65 goals and 123 points.
He had support from Kevin Kohning, who managed 83 points in just 42 games, and Joseph Lector, who had 86 in 78. The other major contributor was winger Dimitri Solomatin, who was acquired just before the season began, with 39 goals and 76 points.
Secondary scoring came from Teppo Tanskanen (49), Oleg Germanov (42) and Stanislav Bezuhov (34 in 64 games). On defence, Evgeny Aleksandrov (44) and Helmut Krall (23) led the way.
Stefan Surilla had yet another sparkling season with a .908 SP and 1.89 GAA in 57 starts. Pavel Stanchinsky played 25 games, with an .890 SP and 2.18 GAA.
In the playoffs, we started out against the #8 Espoo Tigers, who finished 28 points back. It was a much tougher series than we expected, but we got past them in 7. Next up we faced the #4 St. Petersburg Scepters, who finished 11 points back with 103. It was much easier. So easy, we swept them in fact.
In the conference final, we took on the #3 Dublin Drunks. They only finished six points behind us. We split the first two games, but then it all went downhill. We lost in five games.
Not a surprise - we did well to make it three rounds with this rotting husk of a D corps.
In spite of our atrocious blueline, the Eagles somehow managed to finish first overall with a record of 53-21-6-2 for 114 points. That's four ahead of Davos and London.
Marius Lueger and Albert Bulygin both slowed down ever so slightly, but still had great years. Lueger finished fifth in the league with 44 goals and 103 points, making it his third straight 100-point season. Bulygin fell just short of the mark, with 39 goals and 96 points for 11th in league scoring.
Wyszemir Demidowicz had one of his best years, posting 34 goals and 86 points. Fabian Bieler, on the other hand, did not have a great year by his standards with 76 points, including 33 goals. Rookie sniper Urs Lachkovics was brilliant with 34 goals and 67 points, enough to finish third in rookie scoring and earn a Calder nomination, along with two rookie of the month awards. Just behind him, Zelimir Wachter had an excellent sophomore season with 29 goals and 66 points. Rounding out a very strong core of secondary scorers was Florian Heideck with 63 points. Meanwhile, Marlo Wichsberger had a career year (not saying much) with 36.
On the back end, Alexei Guznishchev led the contingent with 12 goals and 39 points. Elmar Shrapnel posted 33, followed by Jacques Rosen with 29.
Speaking of rookies, Lachkovics wasn't the only one. Kevin Kohning got an extended call-up thanks to a significant injury to Werner Regel. In only his second pro season, the 21-year-old racked up eight goals and 25 points in 36 games. He's pretty much a guarantee to make next year's roster now.
In net, Friedrich Endress and Bernhard Keurorst split the games almost right down the middle again. Keurorst played 43 games with a .892 SP and 3.19 GAA, while Endress had a .901 SP and 3.05 GAA in 40 games.
We pulled off the double this year with the Vaduz Alpines also taking top spot in the AHL. They won 56 games and racked up 118 points, winning the title by nine points.
Gernot Knabl dominated the league in his second full season. As the only man league-wide to top 100 points, he piled up 65 goals and 123 points.
He had support from Kevin Kohning, who managed 83 points in just 42 games, and Joseph Lector, who had 86 in 78. The other major contributor was winger Dimitri Solomatin, who was acquired just before the season began, with 39 goals and 76 points.
Secondary scoring came from Teppo Tanskanen (49), Oleg Germanov (42) and Stanislav Bezuhov (34 in 64 games). On defence, Evgeny Aleksandrov (44) and Helmut Krall (23) led the way.
Stefan Surilla had yet another sparkling season with a .908 SP and 1.89 GAA in 57 starts. Pavel Stanchinsky played 25 games, with an .890 SP and 2.18 GAA.
In the playoffs, we started out against the #8 Espoo Tigers, who finished 28 points back. It was a much tougher series than we expected, but we got past them in 7. Next up we faced the #4 St. Petersburg Scepters, who finished 11 points back with 103. It was much easier. So easy, we swept them in fact.
In the conference final, we took on the #3 Dublin Drunks. They only finished six points behind us. We split the first two games, but then it all went downhill. We lost in five games.
Not a surprise - we did well to make it three rounds with this rotting husk of a D corps.
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Well, there wasn't much available in the 2047 draft for OCPs.
30. Mikhail Shikhanov, RW
60. German Stepanov, D
90. Thomas Bieler, D
120. Heinz Braun, G
129. Michael Scharf, D
150. Kirill Krivelyov, D
We definitely didn't plan to draft so many defencemen, but by the time we got through the first couple rounds there was nothing left at other positions, at least in terms of guys younger than 20.
Shikhanov is a fourth-liner who is all hitting all the time, with decent positioning and zero offence.
Stepanov is also all hitting, all the time. In terms of defending he is no better than AHL calibre. But he could carve out a third-pair job if our defence continues to be subpar. Ideally, on a really good roster, he would be a #7 at best.
Meanwhile, we have held it off the last couple years but the wave of retirements will start to hit in a year's time. Bernhard Keurorst, Lazarz Kasperczak and Werner Regel will all retire after the upcoming season.
It's hard to say whether the loss of Keurorst or Regel will hit us harder. Laz used to be our best defensive d-man and became a critical top 4 cog after Thile Linesch retired, but he has vopatized SO badly he's now barely hanging on as our #6. Keurorst has split games with Friedrich Endress pretty much right down the middle. We won't be able to swap back and forth with ease when one guy struggles, although Stefan Surilla may surprise us as he finally gets his NHL chance to back up. Finally, our cupboard is starting to overflow with young forwards so while Regel has been a great third line grinder, we won't have much trouble continuing to ice a strong 12-man group.
30. Mikhail Shikhanov, RW
60. German Stepanov, D
90. Thomas Bieler, D
120. Heinz Braun, G
129. Michael Scharf, D
150. Kirill Krivelyov, D
We definitely didn't plan to draft so many defencemen, but by the time we got through the first couple rounds there was nothing left at other positions, at least in terms of guys younger than 20.
Shikhanov is a fourth-liner who is all hitting all the time, with decent positioning and zero offence.
Stepanov is also all hitting, all the time. In terms of defending he is no better than AHL calibre. But he could carve out a third-pair job if our defence continues to be subpar. Ideally, on a really good roster, he would be a #7 at best.
Meanwhile, we have held it off the last couple years but the wave of retirements will start to hit in a year's time. Bernhard Keurorst, Lazarz Kasperczak and Werner Regel will all retire after the upcoming season.
It's hard to say whether the loss of Keurorst or Regel will hit us harder. Laz used to be our best defensive d-man and became a critical top 4 cog after Thile Linesch retired, but he has vopatized SO badly he's now barely hanging on as our #6. Keurorst has split games with Friedrich Endress pretty much right down the middle. We won't be able to swap back and forth with ease when one guy struggles, although Stefan Surilla may surprise us as he finally gets his NHL chance to back up. Finally, our cupboard is starting to overflow with young forwards so while Regel has been a great third line grinder, we won't have much trouble continuing to ice a strong 12-man group.
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A few off-season transactions to report...
To Warsaw: D Zygmunt Bednerski
To Geneva: 2049 4th round pick
To Austria: C Marlo Wichsberger
To Geneva: 2050 5th round pick
To fill out the Vaduz roster, we also claimed winger Zdeno Bukvaja in the waiver draft and acquired winger Pavel Tyurikov from Davos for a 5th rounder in 2048.
To Warsaw: D Zygmunt Bednerski
To Geneva: 2049 4th round pick
To Austria: C Marlo Wichsberger
To Geneva: 2050 5th round pick
To fill out the Vaduz roster, we also claimed winger Zdeno Bukvaja in the waiver draft and acquired winger Pavel Tyurikov from Davos for a 5th rounder in 2048.
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2047-48 Season
Despite our crumbling defence, the Eagles managed to claim their third straight President's Trophy by a single point over Kyiv, with a record of 52-23-3-4 for 111 points.
After a bit of a dip in their production last season, Marius Lueger and Albert Bulygin both topped the 110-point mark again and finished 1-2 in league scoring. Lueger had 117, including 47 goals, coming just two points shy of his own franchise record to win his second Art Ross Trophy. Bulygin's 47 goals and 112 points were good for second in the league, and marked his third 110+ point season.
Fabian Bieler was third on the Eagles with 37 goals and 86 points, while Wyszemir Demidowicz slipped to 63 points, his worst full-season total since he was a rookie. But the ongoing youth movement up front made up for it. Rookie centre Kevin Kohning racked up 31 goals and 71 points in his first full NHL season, riding shotgun on the second line beside Bieler. Their other linemate, Zelimir Wachter, put up 66 points of his own. Sophomore winger Urs Lachkovics missed time to injury but produced 37 points in 65 games.
Secondary scoring came from Norihiro Mizuguchi (46 points), Beat Koell (42) and Florian Heideck (40). For Heideck that was a far cry from his 38 goals scored just two years ago.
On the blueline, Alexei Guznishchev had one of his best years with 13 goals and 51 points. Jacques Rosen posted 35 and somehow the rapidly deteriorating Elmar Shrapnel managed 30.
Top prospect RW Gernot Knabl got an extended callup when Lachkovics was hurt. He put up four goals and 10 points in 19 games. With Werner Regel's impending retirement, Knabl will be a full-time Eagle next season. Defenceman Helmut Krall also came up for eight games. Odds are good he will be the player taking Laz Kasperczak's spot next year.
In net, Bernhard Keurorst was relegated to a 1B role in his final season. Friedrich Endress played 50 games, with an .891 SP and 3.21 GAA. Keurorst got into 36 games with an .877 SP and 3.66 GAA.
In Vaduz, the Alpines also won the AHL title with 52 wins and 110 points. Joseph Lector led the club in scoring with 39 goals and 114 points. Knabl produced 46 goals and 87 points in just 63 games. Other major contributors were Stanislav Bezuhov (62 points in 65 games), Herbert Meyer (68 points) and Teppo Tanskanen (51). Starting goalie Stefan Surilla had another strong year in what will be his final AHL season. Next year he joins the big club to back up Endress, and Pavel Stanchinsky will become the AHL starter with 2046 1st round pick Gregor Tchelychev backing him up.
The Eagles will face the #8 seed Espoo Tigers in the first round of the playoffs. They finished 25 points back.
Despite our crumbling defence, the Eagles managed to claim their third straight President's Trophy by a single point over Kyiv, with a record of 52-23-3-4 for 111 points.
After a bit of a dip in their production last season, Marius Lueger and Albert Bulygin both topped the 110-point mark again and finished 1-2 in league scoring. Lueger had 117, including 47 goals, coming just two points shy of his own franchise record to win his second Art Ross Trophy. Bulygin's 47 goals and 112 points were good for second in the league, and marked his third 110+ point season.
Fabian Bieler was third on the Eagles with 37 goals and 86 points, while Wyszemir Demidowicz slipped to 63 points, his worst full-season total since he was a rookie. But the ongoing youth movement up front made up for it. Rookie centre Kevin Kohning racked up 31 goals and 71 points in his first full NHL season, riding shotgun on the second line beside Bieler. Their other linemate, Zelimir Wachter, put up 66 points of his own. Sophomore winger Urs Lachkovics missed time to injury but produced 37 points in 65 games.
Secondary scoring came from Norihiro Mizuguchi (46 points), Beat Koell (42) and Florian Heideck (40). For Heideck that was a far cry from his 38 goals scored just two years ago.
On the blueline, Alexei Guznishchev had one of his best years with 13 goals and 51 points. Jacques Rosen posted 35 and somehow the rapidly deteriorating Elmar Shrapnel managed 30.
Top prospect RW Gernot Knabl got an extended callup when Lachkovics was hurt. He put up four goals and 10 points in 19 games. With Werner Regel's impending retirement, Knabl will be a full-time Eagle next season. Defenceman Helmut Krall also came up for eight games. Odds are good he will be the player taking Laz Kasperczak's spot next year.
In net, Bernhard Keurorst was relegated to a 1B role in his final season. Friedrich Endress played 50 games, with an .891 SP and 3.21 GAA. Keurorst got into 36 games with an .877 SP and 3.66 GAA.
In Vaduz, the Alpines also won the AHL title with 52 wins and 110 points. Joseph Lector led the club in scoring with 39 goals and 114 points. Knabl produced 46 goals and 87 points in just 63 games. Other major contributors were Stanislav Bezuhov (62 points in 65 games), Herbert Meyer (68 points) and Teppo Tanskanen (51). Starting goalie Stefan Surilla had another strong year in what will be his final AHL season. Next year he joins the big club to back up Endress, and Pavel Stanchinsky will become the AHL starter with 2046 1st round pick Gregor Tchelychev backing him up.
The Eagles will face the #8 seed Espoo Tigers in the first round of the playoffs. They finished 25 points back.
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We called up D prospect Kabok Medvedev for the playoffs, inserting him in the lineup in place of Lazarz Kasperczak, who at 30/68 simply can't handle playoff-level hockey anymore. At 59/73 Medvedev was already an upgrade on some of our declining Ds.
In the first round, we lost the opener to Espoo before snapping off four straight victories to win the series.
Next, we took on the #5 Davos Ski Lifts. We alternated wins in the first four games, for a 2-2 split, but then won Games 5 and 6 to advance to the conference final for the third straight year.
In the West final we went up against the #2 seed Minsk Wolves. We won the first game and lost the second, before reeling off three wins in a row to close it out in 5.
So there we were, in the Stanley Cup final for the first time since we won it all in 2042, six years ago. No Linesch, no Goermer, no Rolnik, no Tysmainitsov, no Grundmann, no Koulikov, no problem, apparently.
It was a #1 vs. #1 matchup in the final with Geneva against the class of the East, the London Giants. They took the first game, and we won the next two, but London claimed Game 4 to tie the series.
We won Game 5 to put us on the edge of another title. Then Fabian Bieler scored twice in Game 6, including the Cup-winning goal, en route to a 5-3 win and the second Stanley Cup in Eagles history.
This is an unbelievable accomplishment for the club after so many retirements. Plenty of young talent has emerged up front, and they played a big role in this win but take a look at the blueline we iced in the playoffs:
Guznishchev 69/74
Medvedev 59/75
Rosen 63/73
Gritsenko 42/73
Janz 40/72
Shrapnel 50/68
Kasperczak 30/68
That's got to be the worst back end ever to lift the Cup. There isn't a single legit top 4 d-man in the bunch, let alone a #1.
Florian Heideck, to everyone's surprise, won his first Conn Smythe Trophy after posting 10 goals and 19 points in 22 playoff games. Albert Bulygin actually led the team in scoring with 20 points. Zelimir Wachter and Beat Koell were also among our leaders and Medvedev, who had never played an NHL game, managed three goals and 10 points. Friedrich Endress was in net for every minute of the run, with a 2.67 GAA and .888 SP.
Norihiro Mizuguchi captained the team to glory, and ended up winning the Masterton Trophy.
Marius Lueger cleaned up on awards night, winning the Hart, Rocket Richard and Art Ross, while Bulygin was also a Hart finalist. Coach Yaroslav Babrashenko won the Jack Adams.
2048 draft:
30. Etienne Schwab, RW
60. Borisz Januszczak, C
90. Xavier Pilon, LW
120. Markus Mittermayer, RW
150. Kjril Mikhailov, G
This wasn't a great draft either. Schwab will be a decent fourth liner, similar to Etienne Grun but quite a bit better defensively. Januszczak is an offence-first two-way centre but in a good organization he'd only be a top AHLer. Maybe a fourth liner on some teams. Pilon is like a Marlo Wichsberger type, also not really NHL calibre.
It would have been nice to get one defenceman, but they were in short supply and we drafted a bunch last year.
Norihiro Mizuguchi will retire in a year's time. Shrapnel, 36, won't, nor will 34-year-olds Bulygin or Heideck. However, Shrapnel is vopatizing so quickly he probably won't keep his spot in the everyday lineup next season. Medvedev and Helmut Krall could both make the jump with Shrapnel as the #7.
In the first round, we lost the opener to Espoo before snapping off four straight victories to win the series.
Next, we took on the #5 Davos Ski Lifts. We alternated wins in the first four games, for a 2-2 split, but then won Games 5 and 6 to advance to the conference final for the third straight year.
In the West final we went up against the #2 seed Minsk Wolves. We won the first game and lost the second, before reeling off three wins in a row to close it out in 5.
So there we were, in the Stanley Cup final for the first time since we won it all in 2042, six years ago. No Linesch, no Goermer, no Rolnik, no Tysmainitsov, no Grundmann, no Koulikov, no problem, apparently.
It was a #1 vs. #1 matchup in the final with Geneva against the class of the East, the London Giants. They took the first game, and we won the next two, but London claimed Game 4 to tie the series.
We won Game 5 to put us on the edge of another title. Then Fabian Bieler scored twice in Game 6, including the Cup-winning goal, en route to a 5-3 win and the second Stanley Cup in Eagles history.
This is an unbelievable accomplishment for the club after so many retirements. Plenty of young talent has emerged up front, and they played a big role in this win but take a look at the blueline we iced in the playoffs:
Guznishchev 69/74
Medvedev 59/75
Rosen 63/73
Gritsenko 42/73
Janz 40/72
Shrapnel 50/68
Kasperczak 30/68
That's got to be the worst back end ever to lift the Cup. There isn't a single legit top 4 d-man in the bunch, let alone a #1.
Florian Heideck, to everyone's surprise, won his first Conn Smythe Trophy after posting 10 goals and 19 points in 22 playoff games. Albert Bulygin actually led the team in scoring with 20 points. Zelimir Wachter and Beat Koell were also among our leaders and Medvedev, who had never played an NHL game, managed three goals and 10 points. Friedrich Endress was in net for every minute of the run, with a 2.67 GAA and .888 SP.
Norihiro Mizuguchi captained the team to glory, and ended up winning the Masterton Trophy.
Marius Lueger cleaned up on awards night, winning the Hart, Rocket Richard and Art Ross, while Bulygin was also a Hart finalist. Coach Yaroslav Babrashenko won the Jack Adams.
2048 draft:
30. Etienne Schwab, RW
60. Borisz Januszczak, C
90. Xavier Pilon, LW
120. Markus Mittermayer, RW
150. Kjril Mikhailov, G
This wasn't a great draft either. Schwab will be a decent fourth liner, similar to Etienne Grun but quite a bit better defensively. Januszczak is an offence-first two-way centre but in a good organization he'd only be a top AHLer. Maybe a fourth liner on some teams. Pilon is like a Marlo Wichsberger type, also not really NHL calibre.
It would have been nice to get one defenceman, but they were in short supply and we drafted a bunch last year.
Norihiro Mizuguchi will retire in a year's time. Shrapnel, 36, won't, nor will 34-year-olds Bulygin or Heideck. However, Shrapnel is vopatizing so quickly he probably won't keep his spot in the everyday lineup next season. Medvedev and Helmut Krall could both make the jump with Shrapnel as the #7.
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Here's our lineup for the 2048-49 season, fresh off our second Stanley Cup. Quite a bit of turnover with four rookies.
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Kohning (85/75)
Lachkovics (85/66) - Bieler (86/66) - Demidowicz (83/69)
Heideck (74/73) - Koell (73/82) - Wachter (77/81)
Grun (70/71) - Mizuguchi (67/76) - Knabl* (74/71)
Guznishchev (69/74) - Medvedev* (59/76)
Rosen (63/73) - Krall* (53/73)
Janz (40/72) - Gritsenko (42/73)
Ex: Shrapnel (50/68)
Endress (70 OA, 83 con)
Surilla* (68 OA, 80 con)
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Kohning (85/75)
Lachkovics (85/66) - Bieler (86/66) - Demidowicz (83/69)
Heideck (74/73) - Koell (73/82) - Wachter (77/81)
Grun (70/71) - Mizuguchi (67/76) - Knabl* (74/71)
Guznishchev (69/74) - Medvedev* (59/76)
Rosen (63/73) - Krall* (53/73)
Janz (40/72) - Gritsenko (42/73)
Ex: Shrapnel (50/68)
Endress (70 OA, 83 con)
Surilla* (68 OA, 80 con)
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After another lengthy hiatus and some schedule editing to make up for teams playing less than 82 games for some reason, we are back again.
2048-49 Season
Marius Lueger won his third Art Ross Trophy in four years with 37 goals and 111 points, edging out Andreas Alfonsson of Malmo by two points. Albert Bulygin finished fifth in the league with 106 points, including 48 goals - giving the Belarussian his fourth season over the century mark.
The team racked up yet another President`s Trophy in spite of the weakness on the back end, with 53 wins and 111 points - beating out Malmo by three.
Winger Urs Lachkovics broke out for 83 points in his third NHL season, putting him third on the team. After needing four years in the AHL to crack the big club, it`s great to see him coming into his own. He`s now joined Lueger and Bulygin in having 99 ratings for both shooting and playmaking.
Fabian Bieler put up 77 points, while Wyszemir Demidowicz and Kevin Kohning each had 65. Demidowicz put up 39 goals. Kohning`s production was down slightly from 71 last year but he was still a big part of the offence.
Gernot Knabl had a solid rookie season with 22 goals and 45 points, adding to secondary scoring from Zelimir Wachter (55), Florian Heideck (43) and Beat Koell (40).
On the back end, Alexei Guznishchev took another step forward with 60 points, including 17 goals. Jacques Rosen managed 45 points and Kabok Medvedev had 40 as a rookie, coming off his great playoff run. Our other blueline rookie, Helmut Krall, had 29 points.
In his final NHL season, captain Norihiro Mizuguchi posted 9 goals and 29 points, rounding out a very fine career that saw him exceed 300 goals and 800 points despite never having what you would consider high-end talent. His strengths were hitting and faceoffs, with enough playmaking and defensive ability to be able to fill a role anywhere from the second line to the fourth.
In his first season as the unchallenged starter, Friedrich Endress played 53 games, earning 34 wins with a 3.10 GAA and .889 SP. Stefan Surilla did relatively well in the backup role, with a 3.24 GAA and .890 SP in 30 appearances.
Our AHL affiliate, the Vaduz Alpines, finished in second place with 112 points, behind only Kosice. Finnish import Teppo Tanskanen led the club with 50 goals and 83 points. Joseph Lector, whose fading NHL hopes hang on his willingness to commit to defence, racked up 49 goals and 79 points, and top prospect Yaroslav Gurevich potted 75 points in his first year as a pro. He has a very bright future in the bigs.
Evgeny Aleksandrov led the D corps with 50 points and Stanislav Bezuhov, who got his first taste of NHL action this year, posted the same in 50 games.
Goalie of the future Gregor Tchelychev got the lion`s share of the action as a rookie pro, with 42 wins in 63 appearances along with a 2.18 GAA and .904 SP. If Endress retires in another year, Tchelychev should be ready to split starts with Surilla.
Geneva will face the 8th seed Dublin Drunks in the first round. They finished with 89 points, 22 back.
2048-49 Season
Marius Lueger won his third Art Ross Trophy in four years with 37 goals and 111 points, edging out Andreas Alfonsson of Malmo by two points. Albert Bulygin finished fifth in the league with 106 points, including 48 goals - giving the Belarussian his fourth season over the century mark.
The team racked up yet another President`s Trophy in spite of the weakness on the back end, with 53 wins and 111 points - beating out Malmo by three.
Winger Urs Lachkovics broke out for 83 points in his third NHL season, putting him third on the team. After needing four years in the AHL to crack the big club, it`s great to see him coming into his own. He`s now joined Lueger and Bulygin in having 99 ratings for both shooting and playmaking.
Fabian Bieler put up 77 points, while Wyszemir Demidowicz and Kevin Kohning each had 65. Demidowicz put up 39 goals. Kohning`s production was down slightly from 71 last year but he was still a big part of the offence.
Gernot Knabl had a solid rookie season with 22 goals and 45 points, adding to secondary scoring from Zelimir Wachter (55), Florian Heideck (43) and Beat Koell (40).
On the back end, Alexei Guznishchev took another step forward with 60 points, including 17 goals. Jacques Rosen managed 45 points and Kabok Medvedev had 40 as a rookie, coming off his great playoff run. Our other blueline rookie, Helmut Krall, had 29 points.
In his final NHL season, captain Norihiro Mizuguchi posted 9 goals and 29 points, rounding out a very fine career that saw him exceed 300 goals and 800 points despite never having what you would consider high-end talent. His strengths were hitting and faceoffs, with enough playmaking and defensive ability to be able to fill a role anywhere from the second line to the fourth.
In his first season as the unchallenged starter, Friedrich Endress played 53 games, earning 34 wins with a 3.10 GAA and .889 SP. Stefan Surilla did relatively well in the backup role, with a 3.24 GAA and .890 SP in 30 appearances.
Our AHL affiliate, the Vaduz Alpines, finished in second place with 112 points, behind only Kosice. Finnish import Teppo Tanskanen led the club with 50 goals and 83 points. Joseph Lector, whose fading NHL hopes hang on his willingness to commit to defence, racked up 49 goals and 79 points, and top prospect Yaroslav Gurevich potted 75 points in his first year as a pro. He has a very bright future in the bigs.
Evgeny Aleksandrov led the D corps with 50 points and Stanislav Bezuhov, who got his first taste of NHL action this year, posted the same in 50 games.
Goalie of the future Gregor Tchelychev got the lion`s share of the action as a rookie pro, with 42 wins in 63 appearances along with a 2.18 GAA and .904 SP. If Endress retires in another year, Tchelychev should be ready to split starts with Surilla.
Geneva will face the 8th seed Dublin Drunks in the first round. They finished with 89 points, 22 back.
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Well, Guznishchev suffered a one-month injury in the third game of the playoffs. So unless Medvedev can step up, there goes our offence from the back end. We called up Knut Tikhonov for his first NHL action, and he responded by scoring in his first game, along with an assist. Our back end put up seven points in a statement if there ever was one.
We went on to beat the Drunks in five, and 2nd seed Davos were surprisingly swept, so in the second round we faced Espoo, the team that knocked them out.
Between rounds Lueger was nominated for the Hart - no surprise - and Knabl was named a finalist for the Calder. Kind of thought Medvedev would get in there too, but the other finalists had 86 and 52 points.
We took the first two games at home against Espoo, but they mirrored that feat on their home ice to tie the series. Then they hammered us 6-1 in Game 5.
The Tigers continued to roar early in Game 6, building a 3-0 lead, but we came back to force overtime where Kevin Kohning buried one to bring it home for Game 7.
That`s where the roller coaster came to an end. Espoo tied the game with less than two minutes left and then won it on an OT goal by some nobody 63/63 forward named Stephane Fischhof. I guess that`s a fitting way to end a series we lost to a team that finished 21 points behind us.
The Tigers went on to knock off 4th seed St Petersburg to reach the final against Malmo, the top seed in the East. The Raccoons finally brought their Cinderella run to a halt, taking the series in five for their first-ever Stanley Cup win.
We went on to beat the Drunks in five, and 2nd seed Davos were surprisingly swept, so in the second round we faced Espoo, the team that knocked them out.
Between rounds Lueger was nominated for the Hart - no surprise - and Knabl was named a finalist for the Calder. Kind of thought Medvedev would get in there too, but the other finalists had 86 and 52 points.
We took the first two games at home against Espoo, but they mirrored that feat on their home ice to tie the series. Then they hammered us 6-1 in Game 5.
The Tigers continued to roar early in Game 6, building a 3-0 lead, but we came back to force overtime where Kevin Kohning buried one to bring it home for Game 7.
That`s where the roller coaster came to an end. Espoo tied the game with less than two minutes left and then won it on an OT goal by some nobody 63/63 forward named Stephane Fischhof. I guess that`s a fitting way to end a series we lost to a team that finished 21 points behind us.
The Tigers went on to knock off 4th seed St Petersburg to reach the final against Malmo, the top seed in the East. The Raccoons finally brought their Cinderella run to a halt, taking the series in five for their first-ever Stanley Cup win.
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To make room for two D prospects joining Vaduz next year, we made a trade:
To Berlin: Adolf Odenthal + Kirill Krivelyov
To Geneva: 2051 4th round pick
We had four players named to the NHL all-star teams, which might be a record. Lueger made the 1st team, Bulygin made the second, and both Medvedev and Knabl made the 1st all-rookie team.
Gregor Tchelychev was named to the AHL 1st All-Star team in his rookie season, and Evgeny Aleksandrov made the team for the second time.
At the draft, the only player we thought remotely worthy of our first pick was ranked in the third round, and there was also a goalie we liked that would likely go a few picks before our 60th selection. So we made a swap to get both.
To Magnitogorsk: GEN 1st (30), GEN 2nd (60)
To Geneva: TOG 1st (37), MAG 1st (52)
Our picks at the 2049 draft were:
37. Hansel Rippel, D
52. Peter Scherich, G
90. Anselm Felbiger, LW
120. Mark Wessel, C
134. Alexey Soldatov, C
150. Flavian Baumschlager, LW
Rippel needs a pot boost to make the NHL and will never do much offensively, but he would make our top pair based on the strength of his defence, if our blueline continues to be subpar. Kind of a poor man`s Valeri Tysmainitsov.
Scherich is straight AHL material but considering OCP goalies can be hard to come by, he could back up Tchelychev eventually. Similar to Stefan Surilla but with weaker consistency.
The others all have one standout skill but nowhere near the rounded game necessary to make the show.
We made one more trade after two of our farmers refused to re-sign no matter how much we gave them, and included Shrapnel, who is retiring in a year and can no longer handle NHL action.
To Jesenice: Takuya Isobe, Ivan Suroegin, Elmar Shrapnel
To Geneva: C Otso Kimmainen + LW Mats Nykvist
Thankfully no one else is retiring next summer. Bulygin, who cracked the 1,000 point mark this year, will finish with pretty impressive totals after two more seasons.
Mizuguchi's retirement leaves a void that will be tough to fill because we don't have any NHL-ready OCP forwards on the farm. Expect Stanislav Bezuhov to get the call. He's got untapped potential in a couple areas and could become a similar player to Etienne Grun in a year or two.
After his strong rookie season, Gernot Knabl will likely jump into the top 9, playing beside Beat Koell and Zelimir Wachter on the third line, which will demote Florian Heideck to the fourth unit.
To Berlin: Adolf Odenthal + Kirill Krivelyov
To Geneva: 2051 4th round pick
We had four players named to the NHL all-star teams, which might be a record. Lueger made the 1st team, Bulygin made the second, and both Medvedev and Knabl made the 1st all-rookie team.
Gregor Tchelychev was named to the AHL 1st All-Star team in his rookie season, and Evgeny Aleksandrov made the team for the second time.
At the draft, the only player we thought remotely worthy of our first pick was ranked in the third round, and there was also a goalie we liked that would likely go a few picks before our 60th selection. So we made a swap to get both.
To Magnitogorsk: GEN 1st (30), GEN 2nd (60)
To Geneva: TOG 1st (37), MAG 1st (52)
Our picks at the 2049 draft were:
37. Hansel Rippel, D
52. Peter Scherich, G
90. Anselm Felbiger, LW
120. Mark Wessel, C
134. Alexey Soldatov, C
150. Flavian Baumschlager, LW
Rippel needs a pot boost to make the NHL and will never do much offensively, but he would make our top pair based on the strength of his defence, if our blueline continues to be subpar. Kind of a poor man`s Valeri Tysmainitsov.
Scherich is straight AHL material but considering OCP goalies can be hard to come by, he could back up Tchelychev eventually. Similar to Stefan Surilla but with weaker consistency.
The others all have one standout skill but nowhere near the rounded game necessary to make the show.
We made one more trade after two of our farmers refused to re-sign no matter how much we gave them, and included Shrapnel, who is retiring in a year and can no longer handle NHL action.
To Jesenice: Takuya Isobe, Ivan Suroegin, Elmar Shrapnel
To Geneva: C Otso Kimmainen + LW Mats Nykvist
Thankfully no one else is retiring next summer. Bulygin, who cracked the 1,000 point mark this year, will finish with pretty impressive totals after two more seasons.
Mizuguchi's retirement leaves a void that will be tough to fill because we don't have any NHL-ready OCP forwards on the farm. Expect Stanislav Bezuhov to get the call. He's got untapped potential in a couple areas and could become a similar player to Etienne Grun in a year or two.
After his strong rookie season, Gernot Knabl will likely jump into the top 9, playing beside Beat Koell and Zelimir Wachter on the third line, which will demote Florian Heideck to the fourth unit.
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Our lineup heading into 2049-50:
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Lachkovics (89/65)
Kohning (85/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Demidowicz (82/69)
Knabl (81/72) - Koell (73/82) - Wachter (78/80)
Heideck (73/74) - Bezuhov* (66/66) - Grun (70/72)
Guznishchev (68/74) - Medvedev (65/75)
Rosen (63/73) - Krall (55/72)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Tikhonov* (44/72)
Ex: Janz (40/72)
Endress
Surilla
Turns out Stanislav Bezuhov isn't our only rookie. Knut Tikhonov had a good camp offensively, enough to surpass Janz (who has 54 points in 331 games) on the depth chart. So after four AHL seasons, the late second-round pick will make the jump.
Lueger (96/71) - Bulygin (87/73) - Lachkovics (89/65)
Kohning (85/75) - Bieler (86/66) - Demidowicz (82/69)
Knabl (81/72) - Koell (73/82) - Wachter (78/80)
Heideck (73/74) - Bezuhov* (66/66) - Grun (70/72)
Guznishchev (68/74) - Medvedev (65/75)
Rosen (63/73) - Krall (55/72)
Gritsenko (42/73) - Tikhonov* (44/72)
Ex: Janz (40/72)
Endress
Surilla
Turns out Stanislav Bezuhov isn't our only rookie. Knut Tikhonov had a good camp offensively, enough to surpass Janz (who has 54 points in 331 games) on the depth chart. So after four AHL seasons, the late second-round pick will make the jump.
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Bezuhov won rookie of the month for December after a slow start, posting 8 points in 14 games. He's coming along, especially with his shot.
Demidowicz had an awful start, so we swapped him with Knabl in the middle six and it's paying dividends so far. He picked up a player of the week honour with eight points in four games.
Bulygin is one point off the league scoring lead, with 39 points in 26 games. Top prospect Yaroslav Gurevich, meanwhile, is leading the AHL with 46 points.
Lueger passed the 1,000 point mark about a month into the season, becoming the fourth player in Eagles history to do so. Bulygin will pass Otto Goermer (1,105) for the most points in franchise history later this season. The only other player over the millennium mark is Maxim Koulikov.
Demidowicz had an awful start, so we swapped him with Knabl in the middle six and it's paying dividends so far. He picked up a player of the week honour with eight points in four games.
Bulygin is one point off the league scoring lead, with 39 points in 26 games. Top prospect Yaroslav Gurevich, meanwhile, is leading the AHL with 46 points.
Lueger passed the 1,000 point mark about a month into the season, becoming the fourth player in Eagles history to do so. Bulygin will pass Otto Goermer (1,105) for the most points in franchise history later this season. The only other player over the millennium mark is Maxim Koulikov.
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Bulygin Crowned King Eagle
That was the slightly overzealous headline in one of the Geneva papers on February 5, 2050, the day after a 6-4 win over the Espoo Tigers.
Albert Bulygin scored early in the game to tie Otto Goermer's record, then set up a goal by Fabian Bieler in the second to surpass it and become the top scorer in franchise history with 1,106 points. He added another assist later to top off the milestone evening.
After being drafted 18th overall in 2032, it took Bulygin a few years to settle in - injuries didn't help - but the last seven years he's kicked things into high gear and created a real legacy. He's been over the 100-point mark four times, three of those topping 110, and has also approached the 50-goal mark four times without getting there.
This year could be his best yet, with 78 points through 53 games, although the dreaded EHM second-half swoon hasn't struck yet. With at least one more season in him, the soon to be 36-year-old could top 1,250 points before he's finished.
That was the slightly overzealous headline in one of the Geneva papers on February 5, 2050, the day after a 6-4 win over the Espoo Tigers.
Albert Bulygin scored early in the game to tie Otto Goermer's record, then set up a goal by Fabian Bieler in the second to surpass it and become the top scorer in franchise history with 1,106 points. He added another assist later to top off the milestone evening.
After being drafted 18th overall in 2032, it took Bulygin a few years to settle in - injuries didn't help - but the last seven years he's kicked things into high gear and created a real legacy. He's been over the 100-point mark four times, three of those topping 110, and has also approached the 50-goal mark four times without getting there.
This year could be his best yet, with 78 points through 53 games, although the dreaded EHM second-half swoon hasn't struck yet. With at least one more season in him, the soon to be 36-year-old could top 1,250 points before he's finished.