Paris 5, Athens 1 – The Rouge Eiffels took Athens to the wood shed, outshooting them 41-26 Tuesday in a rough game that featured a Corey Perry vs. Staffan Kronwall fight in the first 2 minutes. Evgeny Malkin scored two goals for Paris while teammates David Perron, Mikko Koivu and Perry also had 2-point nights.…
Dublin 6, Copenhagen 5 – The Fighting Irish fought back from a three-goal deficit and then a two-goal deficit to get the game to overtime and then to a shootout that they won in front of the home crowd. Copenhagen seemed to have the game in hand after Alexander Ovechkin beat Tim Thomas twice to…
Bratislava 4, Munich 3 – Captain Zdeno Chara assisted on two important goals in the third period and then scored an overtime goal to finally put away the pesky Munich Dire Wolf on Sunday. Playing at home, Bratislava outshot Munich 42-17 but trailed 2-0 after two periods thanks in part to Henrik Sedin, who scored…
Recap of Tuesday games Prague 5, Zurich 4 – Ryan Miller stopped Ilya Kovalchuk on a shootout shot that would have kept the Lions alive, and that gave the Prague Siamese Cats a win in enemy territory. After a scoreless first period, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins opened the scoring just 10 seconds into the second period and then…
Edinburgh 5, Moscow 4 – The Edinburgh Capitals waited in the weeds for most of the game and then poured it on in the final 14 minutes to record a one-goal comeback win against visiting Moscow Spartak. Olivier Roland of Edinburgh scored two power play goals after the score was 4-2 Moscow and goalie Ilya Bryzgalov let in…
Recap of Sunday game Minsk 2, Athens 1 – Even with backup goalie Anton Khudobin in goal, the Minsk Hussars looked in control at home against one of the league’s top teams. Minsk outshot Athens 36-17 and the game was scoreless until the last minute of the second period, when Minsk’s Thomas Powell set up…
Oslo 4, St. Petersburg 2 – Rookie defenseman Eric Gelinas is seeing full-time duty in the EURO League for the first time as a member of the Oslo Outlaws, and boy is he seeing full-time duty. On Wednesday, he played on the top defense pairing with Luca Sbisa and he was stationed on the point…
Minsk 3, Dublin 2 – The Minsk Hussars continue to climb the standings in the EURO League and it seems they can do no wrong lately, so when Jakub Voracek tied the hit-filled game in the third period, Dublin fans knew their team was in trouble. The Irish, despite being outshot 13-7 in the third…
Munich 4, Paris 3 – The Paris Rouge Eiffels sit 2 points out of first place in the Southern Conference with games in hand over the two teams ahead of them, and if any team needs to finish first in their conference and get home ice advantage throughout the playoffs, it’s Paris. The Eiffels are…
Recap of Sunday games Stockholm 4, Oslo 0 – Could a good waiver pickup lift the play of the whole team? Stockholm general Manager Michael Sauer said there might be some correlation between the acquisition of former Edinburgh defenseman Karl Alzner and the play of Kevin Bieksa, who scored 3 points Sunday. There might be…
