Posts About "NLA"

2014 NHL Draft: Top Draft-Eligible Prospect Goalies (Europe)

March 24th, 2014 Back in January, CSS released its midterm rankings of the best North American and European skaters and goalies. While familiar names such as Samuel Bennet, Aaron Ekblad, and Sam Reinhart topped the list of North American skaters, goalies such as Thatcher Demko, Edwin Minney, Chase Perry, and Alex Nedeljkovic definitely made a name for...

Matt Duchene, Cory Schneider To Return To North America Early Next Week

January 5th, 2013 As reported by Swiss media, both Ambri-Piotta lockout players Matt Duchene and Cory Schneider will play their last games for the Swiss-Italian club on Sunday, January 6th and are expected to be back in North America by Monday. As per the Ambri-Piotta website: (D) Die Entscheidung der Spieler stützt sich auf die Überzeugung, dass...

The ZSC Lions Win Swiss NLA Championship In Dramatic Fashion

April 17th, 2012 The ZSC Lions have won the Swiss Championship in a frantic finish to the playoff final series, taking Game 7 against SC Bern with a Steve McCarthy goal 3 seconds before the end of regulation for a famous 2-1 victory and securing the Zurich club's first championship since 2008. The series started evenly with Bern winning the first...

Martschini, Trutmann Say Goodbye to OHL

April 4th, 2012 Since 1980, when the OHL separated from the Ontario Hockey Association, several European countries have had representation in the league as import players. One country with significantly lower numbers than most, though, is Switzerland, a nation that has had only 13 native-born individuals come over to play in the OHL. To make it even...

Fribourg Setting Early Pace In Swiss NLA- Scoring Race Heats Up

October 29th, 2011 With the Swiss hockey season around 20 games into a 50 game schedule, the NLA has an unlikely leader in Fribourg-Gotteron. The French-Swiss team who play out of the 7000 capacity Patinoire St-Léonard stadium, are in a great position to challenge for their first Swiss championship, 5 years after they were saved from...

Swiss Hockey - An Analysis Of The Swiss NLA

July 31st, 2011 Swiss hockey is becomming a big deal. The NHL sets the bar high as far as talent and wages go but hockey is also a serious business throughout Europe. The NLA of Switzerland being top of that business as far as highest average attendance in Europe goes, not bad from a country of only 7.8 million people compared to 142 million in Russia....