Daymond Langkow put a shot past Roberto Luongo to win it in overtime for Gothenburg and give his team a 3-2 advantage in the first-round playoff series. The home crowd in Denmark had a good feeling about the game until two quick goals in the third period by Gothenburg’s Jordan Eberle and Ryan Jones erased a 3-1 lead and set up overtime. Copenhagen had 5 shots in overtime that Martin Brodeur stopped before the fourth shot on Luongo in the extra session ended it and sent the series back to Sweden for Game 6. Troy Brouwer scored a pair of goals for the Tridents in the loss. Ales Hemsky, who had four points in five games in the series, hurt his back and will miss the rest of the series.
Oslo 3, Dublin 2
A very tight game that could have gone either way went Oslo’s way when Tomas Vanek broke a tie in the third period and Ryan Suter followed with a long empty net goal. The Devils now have a 3-2 lead as the series moves to Ireland for Game 6. Oslo outshot Dublin 35-34 and the Devils’ Jimmy Howard was just a little better than Tim Thomas of the Fighting Irish. Despite being a minus 2, Ryan Kesler of Dublin was the most dangerous player in the game, reeling off 9 shots and scoring once. Vanek had 6 shots for Oslo. The media voted Devil defense partners Shea Weber and Suter as the game’s top two stars. Weber has 2 assists, 2 shots, 2 hits and was a plus 2, while Suter had a goal and an assist and was also a plus 2.
Stockholm 3, Edinburgh 2
Daniel Cleary and Jordan Leopold were the main reasons Stockholm was able to defeat the Capitals on Monday in a game that ended the first-round playoff series. Cleary scored twice, with Leopold assisting on both. Cleary’s second goal came with about 9 minutes to play in regulation and it was the last goal of the game. Cam Ward stood tall int he Spartans net to deny Edinburgh the tying goal. Loui Ericsson and Cleary scored for Stockholm in the first period, but Edinburgh was able to tie it just before the end of the second period on goals by James Neal and Brandon Dubinsky, the first goal of the series for both. Edinburgh hurt their cause by taking 7 penalties. Both of Cleary’s goals were powerplay goals.
St. Petersburg 6, London 3
The top-seeded Lynx moved on to Round 2 of the playoffs by beating the young London Knights 6-3 on Monday. Jarome Iginla scored a hat trick and had one assist for the winners. His last two goals were both scored in the third period while St. Petersburg was on the powerplay. Brent Burns, Artem Anismov and Blake Wheeler scored the other Lynx goals, while Tyler Seguin and defensemen Zach Bogosian and Jamie McBain scored for London. St. Petersburg outshot the Knights 13-1 in the first period and 33-16 in the game.
