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 in three of the Outlaws’ four powerplay units, as well as on the second penalty kill units. That amounted to a grand total of 31 minutes against the Red Stars, but Gelinas seemed barely winded after the game. He’ll be 100 percent healthy and ready to go again on Saturday, when Oslo travels to Copenhagen. To be honest, Gelinas didn’t do too much to help Oslo beat St. Petersburg (1 shot, 1 hit and 1 blocked shot) but he didn’t hurt the Outlaws either. At least not in that game. Gelinas, who is only 23, is in the top 25 in terms of ice time, but he’s tied for the second worst plus-minus rating in the league among defensemen. His -33 rating has him tied with Dublin’s Olexander Podbyedonostsev and both are better than the worst rating in the league, the -37 rating posted by St. Petersburg Red Star Brent Burns. Burns scored his 9th goal of the year late in the game in Oslo on Wednesday, but by then, it was already 4-1 in the Outlaws’ favor. Tomas Hertl, Tyler Seguin, Gilbert Brule and Mikhail Grabovski scored for Oslo, while Valterri Filppula and Burns scored for the Red Stars.

Moscow 6, Bratislava 3 – So Max Pacioretty leaves a line with Steven Stamkos and Claude Giroux, joins one with Brandon Sutter and Aleksey Morozov, and in his second game with Moscow, scores 2 goals and adds 2 assists. Guess he’s settled in. His work on the powerplay netted him three of those four points and those 3 points all came in the second period, which was 3-2 in favor of visiting Bratislava at one point. Thirty-year-old center Alexei Kaluzhny and defenseman Duncan Keith each had two points in the second period for Moscow. Bratislava general manager Chuck Massaro gave Spartak credit for being the better team Wednesday, but he levied a serious complaint against the officials. “They (Moscow) out-skated and outshot us and they deserved to win, but come on, were three of those six goals really goals? One was blatantly offsides, in my opinion, and on the Kopitar goal, he dumped it into the corner, Chara got to it first and immediately sent it up the boards to center ice and the whistle blew. I had no idea why the play stopped and when I saw the officials huddled in front of the scorer, I noticed they were looking at President Putin in the second row. Then the ref comes out and says ‘Upon video review, it was determined the puck crossed the goal line inside the goal area. It’s a good goal.’ I really question that one,” Massaro said.

Bern 4, Madrid 3 – The Bears nearly doubled the shots on goal that the Royals had on Mike Smith, but they had to scored the last 3 goals of the game to erase a 3-1 deficit and get the win. Derek Dorsett scored for the first time in 60 games this season to give Bern a 1-0 lead, but Smith got a little shaky and let three Madrid goals past him. Kevin Klein, Jordan Staal and Sean Couturier all scored and Daniel Cleary had two assists for Madrid. But with 6 minutes remaining in the second period, Radim Vrbata started the Bern comeback with a goal. He scored again in the third period to tie it and with 10:25 remaining he got an assist on Kimo Timonen’s 4th of the season, a goal that turned out to be the game-winner. Madrid’s hopes of tying the game all but vanished with 3:14 left when Gabriel Landeskog was called for a high sticking penalty that drew blood from Brent Seabrook’s lip. In addition to his goal, Madrid’s Klein registered 3 hits and blocked 4 Bern shots.

Dublin 3, Zurich 2 – Third-line center Jakub Petruzalek was the star of the day for the Fighting Irish, as he scored twice and earned an assist on a James Van Riemsdyk goal. Goalie Tim Thomas allowed just two Zurich Lions to score. One of those goals was scored by Ilya Kovalchuk, who now has 39 on the season to lead the league. He entered the game tied with Edinburgh’s John Tavares at 38 goals. Kovalchuk and Patrice Bergeron each had a goal and an assist for Zurich. The Lions are currently in 5th place in the Southern Conference, while Dublin is in 10th in the North, but just 3 points out of a playoff spot.

Stockholm 4, Copenhagen 2 – Mike Richards scored his team’s first goal of the game to cut into a 2-0 Copenhagen lead near the end of the second period, and he added a backbreaking shorthanded tally with 6 minutes left in the game to make it 4-2 Stockholm. Richards also had an assist and took more shots on goal (5) than anyone else in the game. Copenhagen and Stockholm are in 6th and 7th place, respectively, in the Northern Conference at the top of a five-team mud wrestling match going on for the last 3 playoff spots. Of the two teams, Stockholm has more momentum, having won 6 of their last 10, compared to 3 of 10 for Copenhagen, but the Eagles face a tougher schedule next week, with Gothenburg and Edinburgh on the docket.

Paris 5, Munich 4 – The Rouges Eiffels made the Dire Wolf really work to lose Wednesday. Tuukka Rask was not at his best in the Paris goal, and by the time the second period was over, Paris was trailing 4-1. Dave Bolland had accumulated a goal and an assist for Munich by that point and teammates Andrew Shaw, Patrik Elias and Dana Tyrell also had goals. But in the third period, which saw Paris outshoot Munich 14-7, the Eiffels came through with 4 goals on goalie Robert Kristan. Corey Perry had two assists in the period and Josef Vasicek had a goal and an assist in the third. Paris’ winning goal came with 10 minutes left when David Perron and Mike Ribeiro assisted on Travis Hamonic’s 10th of the season. In the overall standings, Paris is drafting behind Moscow. Spartak has 84 points, Paris 83, but the Eiffels have three games in hand. Athens also has 83 points and has played one more game than Paris has. Munich is in 8th place in the Southern Conference with Frankfurt trying to catch them.