The directors expected the team to stay out of regelation. But I had higher expectations than that, I was aiming for the playoffs.
The first thing I did when I started at the team was to try to find a new goalie, that's because Nashville Predators was trying to sign Teemu Lassila. And also some defenders and forwards, many of those players are non-EU players and you can only hav two non-EU players in the line up.
For this season we also started to cooperate with Hannover Scorpions, so some of the new players will play for them and some will play for Almtuna IS that also is a cooperation club. (Thank god for editors.
)Here is some of the new players:
Later we signed two new players, Alexander Hult who were free agent and Emil Axelsson from Arboga.
Some of them will probably play in Hannover or Almtuna.
Exhibition results:
IHK Sparta Sarpsborg-Djurgården 0-7
Stavanger-Djurgården 0-8
Storhamar-Djurgården 1-5
L.I.K.-Djurgården 0-10
Djurgården-Luleå 6-1
Modo-Djurgården 0-8
After these games there was only one question left:
Which of those non-EU players should go and with Hannover or Almtuna?
The statistics after the pre-season games was like this: (The top ten)
Players:
1. Daniel Rudslätt 6GP 9G 12A 21P 9.50Av R
2. Per Eklund 6 9 9 18 8.67
3. Marty Murray 6 4 9 13 8.50
4. Darby Hendrickson 6 3 6 9 8.33
5. René Vydarený 6 2 6 8 7.83
6. Mika Strömberg 6 1 6 7 7.83
7. Marcus Ragnarsson 4 1 5 6 8.00
8. Adam Andersson 6 3 2 5 7.50
9. Lubos Bartecko 6 3 2 5 7.83
10. Cliff Ronning 1 1 4 5 10.00
Goalies:
Zac Bierk 6GP 6W 0L 0T 360Mins 0.33GAA 8.50Av R
The line up (is often different because of the rule of only 2 non-EU players in the line ups):
Forwards:
Rudslätt-Hendrickson-Eklund
Bartecko-Thoresen-Ottosson
Bremberg-Eneqvist-Ölvestad
Thörn-Andersson-Kristoffersson
Defenders:
Ragnarsson-Strömberg
Vydarený-Falk
Ryman-Liwing
Pettersson-Axelsson
Goalies:
Bierk
Antila
In next part: The first ten season games.
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,and now Kristian Antila is the starting goalie.