Las Vegas Hockey

[mikko1995]

Phoenix Coyotes sold

The new home of a NHL-team, Las Vegas in it's glory

The NHL has a new team. It is called the Las Vegas Outlaws. Outlaws will come to Las Vegas from Phoenix after the NHL confirmed the deal that was made a couple of days ago, in that deal Phoenix Coyotes was sold to a group of Finnish bussinesman. The deal was fine to Gary Bettman because the club still stays in the desert.
''It is fun to see how does the team do in Las Vegas,'' Bettman said. The new owners said that they already have contracts for the players that will go to Las Vegas, none of them are old Coyotes players, they are mainly 18-year-old players that have played in the same for their hole life. There is also couple of players from Finland's and Sweden's elite leagues. They have said that the oldest player is Tomi Kallio who comes to the team from Frolunda Indians of Sweden's elite league Elitserien. They also have a new GM, he is Jari Kurri. Kurri left his job as Finland's national teams GM and joins the Outlaws.

The head coach will be Juhani Tamminen. Tamminen who is the ex-captain of Finland has also played in SM-Liiga for many clubs and also in WHA and in CHL. Tamminen has coached the Swiss A-and B-national team and also French national team. He has also coached teams in SM-Liiga, he was the head coach when TuTo rose to SM-Liiga, that time Tuto stayed in the league for two seasons and before that Tamminen had left and was coaching France. And after coaching France, Tamminen joined Oulun Karpat who was at that time in the second highest level in Finland. In 1999-2000 season Tamminen coached Karpat to SM-Liiga and now Karpat has ruled the SM-Liiga for many years. Tamminen whose nickname's are Tami and Sun King. The nickname Sun King he got when he was coaching France. Tamminen is well known of his aggresive coaching style. Last season he got many coaching bans after criticizing the referees.

[mikko1995]

Draft Rankings before the Prospects Game:

TOP 5
1. Clifford Tkachuck D
2. Mikko Salmelainen C
3. Tomas Kvasha RW
4. Dmitri Kapitanov D
5. Wayne Slater D

Other notable players
18. Logan Burns C
55. Patrick Smith C
58. Matthew Clark LW
64. Nicholas Ritt RW
67. Peter Carey C
116. Nathan MacDonald
136. Peter Blake LW

[mikko1995]

Draft Rankings after the Prospects Game

TOP 5
1. Nicholas Ritt RW (64 last place)
2. Fedor Obsut C (135)
3. Nathan MacDonald D (116)
4. Matthew Petersen C (29)
5. Peter Carey C (67)

Other notable players
6. Matthew Clark LW (58)
8. Patrick Smith C (55)
9. Peter Blake LW (136)
31. Logan Burns C (18)

[bthomp05]

Another interesting dynasty Mikko, will defiantely follow.

[mikko1995]

Quote: Originally Posted by bthomp05

Another interesting dynasty Mikko, will defiantely follow.

Thanks man.

[mikko1995]

Top 10 Draft Picks

1. LW Nicholas Ritt
2. C Matthew Petersen
3. C Fedor Obsut
4. D Nathan MacDonald
5. C Peter Carey
6. C Stephan Leclaire 78 Ovr.
7. LW Matthew Clark
8. C Patrick Smith
9. LW Peter Blake
10. C Michael Phillips

Other interesting draft picks
16. D Teemu Ahonen
29. D Clifford Tkachuck
30. C Logan Burns


Outlaws other draft picks
36th Pick: D Antti Pitkanen 75 Ovr.
66th Pick: G Justin Oystrick 73 Ovr.
96th Pick: LW Nick Gaustad 70 Ovr.
126th Pick: D Jan Sejna 70 Ovr.

I signed all my draft picks. And I didn't dpo anything else in the offseason.
Everyone of you guys got contracts to the team that drafted you.

Lines coming next.

[SENS_AK27]

Atlanta, Nice! Hopefully I'll be paired with Bogosian on a nice young team. Did you make yourself Mikko?

[mikko1995]

NHL-lines

1st Line
LW Miro Hagman 84^ - C Jeremias Santala 91 (C)^ - RW Aleksi Korhnen 85^
D Roope Rinne 86^ - D Riku Kapanen 88 (A)^

2nd Line
LW Tomi Kallio 81* - C Arttu Niinimaa 86^ - C Jere Ramo 82^
D Mikko Holopainen 83^ - D Henri Matilainen 85 (A) ^

3rd Line
LW Niko Koistinen 79^ - C Jori Lehtera 78* - RW Olli Timonen^
D Ville Vallin 80^ - D Ville Kiprusoff 80^

4th Line
RW Eero Virtanen 78^ - C Stephan Leclaire 78 - RW Tuomas Kiiskinen 77*

Goalies
Starter: Lauri Immonen 88^
Backup: Mika Jarvinen 77*

Scratched:
D Sami Lepisto 76
LW Atte Kultanen 76^

AHL Lines

1st Line
LW Brett Maclean 76 - C Daniel Winnik 75 - RW Francis Lessard
D Antti Pitkanen 75 - Ville Mantymaa 77*

2nd Line
LW Jeff Hoggan 73 - C Joel Perrault 74 - RW Simon Ferguson 72
D Jonas Ahnelov 74 - D Matt Jones 74

3rd Line
LW Scott Meyer 72 - C Alexander Nikulin 72 - RW Derek Nesbitt 70
D Sean Sullivan 71 - D Shaun Heshka 72

4th Line
LW David Spina 71 - C Adam Perry 68 - RW Adam Keefe 69

Goalies:
Starter: Mikko Koskinen 77
Backup: Al Montoya 77

Scratched
LW Nick Gaustad 70
D Jeff May 69
D David Schlemko 70
D Jan Sejna 70
G Joel Gistedt 74
G Josh Tordjman 72

^= My friends + me
*= Player tooked from SM-Liiga or Elitserien