Wednesday recap of games
Edinburgh 5, Copenhagen 3 – A nice third period pushed Edinburgh past Copenhagen in front of almost 15,000 Scottish fans. Derek Stepan scored twice in the period, including the game-winner on the power play. All-stars Olivier Roland and Jamie Benn had 3 points apiece.
London 5, Zurich 4 – Two late powerplay goals by Jake Gardiner and Taylor Hall erased a 4-3 Zurich lead. Both goals were scored while Drew Stafford was serving a major penalty.
Frankfurt 3, Munich 2 – The Inferno outshot the Dire Wolf 44-25 but barely came away with the win, thanks to the goaltending of all-star Cory Schneider of Munich. It was 2-1 with 30 seconds to play before Jonas Holos scored his 4th of the season to make it 3-1 Frankfurt. With 3 seconds left, Talgat Zhailauov scored his 12th of the season for Munich. Frankfurt was 0 for 10 on the powerplay and Munich was 0 for 4.
Geneva 2, Athens 1 – The Generals upset the league-leaders in a shootout. David Backes scored in the first period for Athens, and Matt Greene tallied in the second period. It was Backes 17th of the season and Greene’s 2nd. Geneva’s Patrick Marleau and Sergei Kostitsyn were the only players able to score in the shootout. The game was a battle of backup goalies. Frederik Anderson made 40 saves for Geneva and Richard Bachman stopped 30 for Athens.
Moscow 6, Dublin 1 – The visitors throttled Dublin on Wednesday, dominating in shots by a 41-27 count. Dustin Brown, Andrew Ladd and Aleksey Morozov each scored 3 points for Spartak. Dublin’s all-star forward line of Ryan Kesler, Phil Kessel and Evander Kane was held to 7 shots on goal and one assist.
Belfast 5, Milan 3 – James Neal scored his 15th of the season and was one of 5 Giants to score. Matt Duchene and Vladimir Tarasenko has 2 assists each. Belfast was playing without injured star Sidney Crosby. Giants officials said after the game that Joe Pavelski has come down with the flu and would join Crosby and defenseman Matt Hunwick on the injured list when the EURO’s top two teams meet on Friday. The Greeks will have two injured players of their own in Dustin Byfuglien and Kyle Palmeiri
