EHM The Blue Line

Just wondering, who are the best players people have seen move from the NHL to Europe in their games?

I am not so much thinking of europeans going back when they are in their late 30's, but more young players or players in their prime.

In my current game, I have Jed Ortmeyer and Jeff Pandolfo at Luleå in the Swedish League. They make an exellent PK team.

I also often see Josh Langfeld go to Europe.

Not really star players, but very good players IMHO.

In my game notable players that go to Europe are: Jeff O'Neill, Jamie Lundmark, Andy Sutton, Grant Marshall, Brett McLean, Mike Komisarek, Brad Isbister, Marty Reasoner, Bates Battaglia. At the age of 38-39 M.Straka and J. Stumpel went there too.

I had Joe thornton playing in europe once

jackknife77 wrote:I had Joe thornton playing in europe once

Really? Wow, what league was that in and how did he end up there?

it was DEL . nobody was signing him.. spent the whole year as a free agent and the next year he was playing in europe

jackknife77 wrote:it was DEL . nobody was signing him.. spent the whole year as a free agent and the next year he was playing in europe

Wow, that is cool.

I actually think the game has some problems with free agents sometimes. In my game, star players often miss a whole season because no one signs them.

In my game Antero Niittymäki is back at TPS Turku at age 31.

jackknife77 wrote:it was DEL . nobody was signing him.. spent the whole year as a free agent and the next year he was playing in europe

Wow, good stuff.

I've seen both Dany Heatley and Joe Thornton in Europe playing in the SEL... If they remain unsigned ufa's for some time, european teams tend make them an offer and they usually accept 'cause they wanna play some hockey. On EHM 2005 Dany Heatley RETIRED after having spent three full seasons as an unsigned ufa. This was something that was fixed for the new version, but that was sick. I was GM/Coach of the Quebec Remparts in that game as well as Team Canada and could select Heatley to every tournament - I made him the captain... Even after he retired I had the ability to select him for certain tournaments, but only the first year of his retirement. I hope nothing like that happens in EHM 2007. Btw, Heatley retired in 2009 on this game...

white knight wrote:I've seen both Dany Heatley and Joe Thornton in Europe playing in the SEL... If they remain unsigned ufa's for some time, european teams tend make them an offer and they usually accept 'cause they wanna play some hockey. On EHM 2005 Dany Heatley RETIRED after having spent three full seasons as an unsigned ufa. This was something that was fixed for the new version, but that was sick. I was GM/Coach of the Quebec Remparts in that game as well as Team Canada and could select Heatley to every tournament - I made him the captain... Even after he retired I had the ability to select him for certain tournaments, but only the first year of his retirement. I hope nothing like that happens in EHM 2007. Btw, Heatley retired in 2009 on this game...

That is crazy!

I've advanced till 2012 in the game once and Heatley and Thornton were still playing. But the Wings usually waive Chelios in the first year and he retires

Marc Staal has now just signed with Sparta in the Czech league in my game - after sitting out the entire 2010/2011 season as a Free Agent.

ElQuapo wrote:Marc Staal has now just signed with Sparta in the Czech league in my game - after sitting out the entire 2010/2011 season as a Free Agent.

What!!! Why didnt u sign him, hes awesome,

in my games no stars play in europe, players like ruslan salei go there, and i have luke moffatt (2nd of in this years WHL bantam draft) there, but no noticable stars, people like Daniel Briere have retired, all be it due to injury, Forsberg has retired, so has Rob Blake and Jagr

im in 2013 by the way

getzlaf15 wrote:What!!! Why didnt u sign him, hes awesome,

I tried a couple of times, but he refused to even discuss terms, so I gave up.

Guess he changed his mind after 1 year with no team

In my game, nobody signed Kipper when he became a free agent at around 2010, and he went to play in Sweden for the rest of his career (which wasn't *that* long, but boy did he have insane stats over there).

I can't never get any star "holdout" NHL players to sign with me when I'm playing Euro teams. I reacll seeing Joe Thornton as a free agent when running both Krefeld and Magnitogorosk and I could never get him to sign.

I haven't seen any of the NHL stars go to Europe in my game. I am only into my 4th season, but I haven't seen any go to Europe in order to play.

It seems like most of them just sit on the free agent list for the whole season and then get signed after the season is over and done with, but a few are signed here and there during the middle of the season.

One weird thing that I did see in my game was that Mike Modano was playing in the AHL for awhile. I actually picked him up and put him on my own AHL club, because there was no room for him on the NHL squad.

Kind of funny, but not really I guess.

All in all, I find it weird to see that happening in your games. Also, if you didn't grab Marc Staal, you are nuts!

puckman16 wrote:I can't never get any star "holdout" NHL players to sign with me when I'm playing Euro teams. I reacll seeing Joe Thornton as a free agent when running both Krefeld and Magnitogorosk and I could never get him to sign.

You have to try and try again. At first they might say no - or not even willing to negotiate - but as time goes by eventually they will start taking offers from Euro teams. And who they sign with, pretty much depends on team and league reputation.

I can see that it might be easier to sign those players who are older and just seem to be close to ending their career.

Plus, I see that sometimes you can see that some NHL clubs will be ok with signing someone and then pulling away the offer. That leaves it open for you to grab that player really quickly.

I had Ovechkin with the SEL's Frölunda once, scored 65 goals in 48 games.

Systemfel wrote:I had Ovechkin with the SEL's Frölunda once, scored 65 goals in 48 games.

Lol! In my Blackhawks Challenge game Jose Theodore has just agreed to sign in Sweden for HV71 after missing a whole season as a UFA.

I have had Evgeni Malkin, Trent Hunter and Marcus Nilson in Helsingin Jokerit. I ruled the league for 4 seasons.


Edit; Oh and i also had Jose Theodore in the same game.

Had Marian Hossa move to Djurgården in Sweden once. I played another Swedish team and got a bit surprised when I saw him.