Stockholm 4, St. Petersburg 2 Mikko Koivu and his partner in crime Dan Cleary dominated Wednesday night as their Stockholm team topped St. Petersburg 4-2. Cleary assisted Koivu for goals four times, including two in the first period and two more in the final one. Those two are suddenly tied with Prague’s Ryan Getzlaf atop…
Madrid 6, Frankfurt 5 (OT) Fans in Madrid who watched an extra entertaining 60 minutes of hockey got two bonuses: more hockey in the form of sudden death overtime and a win for their boys. R.J. Umberger, who didn’t do too much in the game until the third period when his goal pulled the Royals…
Paris 7, Prague 5 Les Paris Rouges Eiffels and Prague Sparta were tied 3-3 when the third period started in Prague Monday, and then Sparta went on top when Dmitri Kulikov faked a slapshot, went around a sliding defender and then ripped a shot past Tuukka Rask. But Prague took too many penalties and Paris…
Saturday London 5, Belfast 3 – The Dons got even for an earlier loss to Belfast by going ahead 3-0 before the end of the second period. Tyler Seguin and Tyler Bozak scored their first goals of the year for London. In the third period, Belfast scored 3 times, but gave up two more London…
By Phelim McAleer Copenhagen Post This is the 4th part of 4 in the season preview series. Today we are looking at the second division in the Northern Conference, being the Ahearne Division that comprises of the Northwestern teams. As always, I rate goalies, top 4 D, and top 6 offence out of 10, the “future”…
Helsinki 3, Gothenburg 2 Helsinki overcame the fact they let a 2-0 lead vanish, and the fact they were outshot 41-26, and that they gave Gothenburg 8 chances to score on the powerplay. In the third period, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 17 shots and veteran Ryan Smyth scored his second of the year with about 4…
By Phelim McAleer Copenhagen Post This is the 3rd part of 4 in the season preview series. Today we are looking at the first division in the Northern Conference, being the Kharlamov Division that comprises of the Northeastern teams. As always, I rate goalies, top 4 D, and top 6 offence out of 10, the…
Prague 5, Edinburgh 3 Prague’s Bryan Little, fresh off a hat trick against Geneva two nights earlier, collected 4 more points Thursday in Edinburgh. He had a goal and three assists and is the early season league leader in scoring. The line of Little, Zach Parise and Ryan Getzlaf is tough enough to handle at…
Gothenburg 3, Paris 2 It was a real shootout in Paris, with Gothenburg emerging with the win. Only Milan Lucic was able to score int he shootout as he beat Paris goalie Jose Theodore. Martin Brodeur, meanwhile, stoned Evgeni Malkin, David Perron and Corey Perry to cement the win. There were 76 shots on goal…
By Zorba Athens Mounaki The Greeks opened there season on the road and they were in tough against the Stockholm Spartans. But the new faces on the team were undaunted, maybe it was the ignorance of the rookies or the calm confidence of the vets. Or maybe, just maybe this group of players know something…
