Thursday’s Games Bern 5, Stockholm 2 – Bern stormed through Stockholm Thursday, looking a lot like the Bears of a year ago. They outshot the home team 43-21 getting 3 points from Jason Spezza and 2 each from Radim Vrbata and Andy McDonald. Cam Ward made 38 saves for Stockholm. Minsk 5, Paris 3 – …
Gothenburg 6, Munich 3 – The Gothenburg Devils are young, skillful, full of hockey sense … perhaps a bit on the smallish side … and they are currently at the top of the Kharlamov Division. A season ago, the Devils finished 14th in the league and lost a first-round playoff series in 7 games to…
Oslo 4, Geneva 1 – Mikhail Grabovski had one of his better games on Saturday and he has had a lot of good games this season.He help the Outlaws engineer a pair of first period goals, scoring one of them himself and then he added two assists in the third period. Grabovksi was voted to the…
Minsk 5, Helsinki 4 (OT-SO) – The Helsinki Jokerit seemed to have momentum on their side in overtime against the Minsk Hussars, and then Brad Marchand took a questionable hooking penalty, putting his team shorthanded for almost the remainder of the OT. Goalie Henrik Lundquist held off Minsk and gave his team a chance to…
The first EURO League All-Star game held last year in Bratislava was considered a success by many, especially: The Northern Conference, which won the game 7-6; Alexandre Burrows of Oslo, who was named game MVP and is now driving a 2013 Alfa Romeo 8C Spider to prove it; and Bratislava Eagles owner Yurchik Dluhy, who…
Moscow 4, St. Petersburg 3 (OT-SO) – It is looking like it will be a season-long, neck-and-neck struggle for the Kharlamov Division title. After 23 games, three teams are dead even at 26 points on top of the division. On Thursday, two of those teams went at it in Russia. St. Petersburg and Moscow are…
Bern 6, Bratislava 3 – The Bern Bears burst out of the gate and took control of their game against Bratislava early, leading 4-0 after about 16 minutes and outshooting the Eagles 18-5 after the first period. Pascal Dupuis led the way with assists on the first two goals and a goal of his own…
Moscow 6, Belfast 3 – Moscow Spartak turned their arena into a shooting gallery on Friday and poor Cory Schneider of Belfast had to stand in there the whole time. Rich Peverley fired 12 at the Giants net all by himself and he might have had more if he didn’t have to sit out 2…
Edinburgh 3, Oslo 2 Although his team is currently in 18th place, Coach Lindy Ruff has the Edinburgh Capitals moving up in the standings. The Scots are 6-3-1 in there last 10 games and tied for seventh place in the Northern Conference. Their big problem was their slow start. They were only 2-7 before that…
Moscow 6, Geneva 1 – The world champs almost had their mojo back. About a week and a half ago, the Generals were mired in a three-game losing streak and they lost 5 of 7 games in that stretch. But a 5-1 win in Bratislava kicked off a four-game win streak that had Geneva right…
