Lee Stempniak stunned the home crowd in Prague Saturday with a wristshot goal in overtime that eliminated the Sparta from the EURO playoffs and catapulted the Eagles into the second round. Prague seemed to have been doing everything right against the upstart seventh-seed in the seventh game of what was dubbed the Czechoslovakia series. The…

Twice in a matter of 9 seconds, the Derek Roy to Dany Heatley combination worked for goals to blow open a tight game and win it for Copenhagen. Seventh-seeded Gothenburg took the Tridents to Game 7 in the opening round playoff series, and the contest was tied for almost all of the first 30 minutes.…

Paul Martin’s shorthanded goal has extended the Czechoslovakia series to a seventh and deciding game. With 2:45 remaining in the first overtime period, referee Vladimir Kvachkov called Bratislava’s Matt Greene for unnecessary roughness for decking Jason Blake after play stopped in the Eagles zone. Coach Bruce Boudreau almost put his team two men down when…

Copenhagen and Dublin came up with wins Wednesday to force two Game Sevens in the Northern Conference of the EURO League Payoffs. In Gothenburg, Sweden, goals by Alex Goligoski and Stephen Weiss put the Tridents in front to stay in what had been a see-saw battle and a real nail-biter for the home fans. After…

The Madrid Royals and goalie Tomas Vokoun are putting up quite a fight in their Southern Conference playoff series with Bern. Down 3-0 after the first three games, the Royals won the next two, including Tuesday’s 3-2 win in Bern. The teams will pick up again and go to Spain tonight, where a Game 6…

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…

Seven different Eagles scored in Bratislava to help even the Czechoslovakia series at 2-2 on a night that saw Geneva become the first team to advance to the second round of the EURO playoffs. In the Czech series, Prague was playing without injured center Ryan Getzlaf for the first time and it showed. Getzlaf had…

Cam Ward spent Friday in a hotel near Edinburgh listening to local media rave about the shutout Ilya Bryzgalov posted against Stockholm the night before. On Saturday, in his best Brooklyn accent, he said “Yeah, I got your shutout right here.” Ward slammed the door shut on the Capitals to lead the Spartans to a…

The two Swiss teams in the playoffs each won and took a 3 games to none lead in their series on Friday.  In the case of Bern, the win was shocking, given the fact that Madrid attacked like ferocious bulls, pouring 59 shots on the Bear net and goalie Mike Smith. The contest had to…

Dublin collapsed in the third period, allowing Oslo to score five times to take the game and the lead in the series. Danny Briere’s second of period and the game turned out to be the most important Oslo goal ever thus far. It swung the pendulum the Devils’ way to the point they are up…