Recap of Saturday’s games
Madrid 5, Milan 3 – Alex Tanguay of Madrid scored a powerplay goal to break a 2-2 tie early in the second period and his teammates added two more goals late in the period to allow the Royals to breakaway from Milan. R.J. Umberger assisted on all three second-period goals. By the end of the game, Madrid had outshot Milan 36-16. Trevor Daley had 2 assists, 2 hits and 2 blocked shots for the Guerriero.
Geneva 4, Moscow 2 – The Season 1 Cup champs toppled the Season 3 champs thanks to some surprising offensive output from Matt Greene and Darren Helm. Each had a goal and an assists against all-star Jaroslav Halak before the game’s halfway mark and Greene added an assist on an empty-net goal. Greene and defense partner Brad Stuart were plus 3, and fellow blueliners Ilya Nikulin and Dennis Wideman each blocked 3 Moscow shots.
Munich 5, Edinburgh 3 – The home fans left dazed and confused after their team fumbled a 3-0 lead and lost to the Dire Wolf who played backup goalie Robert Kristen. Edinburgh fired 39 shots at Kristen, but he made 36 saves and spurred his team to the comeback. Josh Bailey scored for Munich to tie it in the third period, and Michael Sauer scored his second of the season on a point shot that got through a screen and beat Edinburgh’s Ilya Bryzgalov. Bailey had 4 shots on goal and was a plus 2 for the Dire Wolf.n five
Zurich 3, Berlin 2 – Two early powerplay goals by Ilya Kovalchuk and Patrice Bergeron gave the Swiss team an edge that they were able to hang on to. Dale Weise’s second of the season gave the Lions 3-1 lead in the second period and that turned out to be the winning goal. All-star Loui Eriksson and Brian Flynn scored for the Smurfs, with Aleksander Barkov assisting on the Flynn goal for his first point in 5 games this season. He scored a goal in his only appearance last year and is considered to be one of the league’s most promising young players.
Dublin 6, Helsinki 5 – It isn’t very often that Helsinki scores 5 goals in a game, and it’s even more rare that they give up 6. But both rarities occurred Saturday in Ireland as Dublin outshot the Jokerit 40-26. Helsinki seemed to be in control of the game at the halfway mark when they were up 4-1 on goals by Jarome Iginia, Travis Zajac, Alex Burrows (his first of the season) and David Booth. But then they seemed to get careless. Keith Yandle was allowed to skate into the slot and challenge Jokerit goalie Henrik Lundqvist and he beat the all-star Swede to make it 4-2. Helsinki got into penalty trouble in the final period and overtime an were made to pay for it. Milan Michalek and Evander Kane tallied powerplay goals, Jordan Schroeder added an even-strength tally, and Ryan Kesler finished off the visitors with a powerplay goal in OT with Brad Marchand sitting in the penalty box. Dublin’s James Wisniewski topped al scorers with 3 points, all assists.
Stockholm 4, Frankfurt 1 – Despite being outshot 46-27, Stockholm won 4-1 Saturday in Frankfurt. Braden Holtby was the first star, making 45 saves. Frankfurt took 6 penalties to Stockholm’s 1, which didn’t help the Inferno’s cause. Derick Brassard was the best player in the first period as he set up two players for goals to give his team a 2-0 lead. He added another assist in the third period, with a pass to Pavel Datsyuk, who deked goalie Kari Ramo to score his 9th goal of the season. Cam Fowler of the Eagles was very physical, delivering 8 hits on Frankfurt players.
