Max Pacioretty assisted on two goals scored by longtime linemates Steven Stamkos and Claude Giroux when the Inferno defeated Milan 6-3 on Sunday, but he won’t feed them any more passes. About five hours after the game, it was announced that Pacioretty has been traded to the defending champion Moscow Spartak. Moscow gave up plenty…
Edinburgh 5, Helsinki 3 – The Edinburgh Capitals made a 2-point move up the standings and a major move in their lineup Thursday. After handing the reeling Jokerit their 13th loss in the last 16 games thanks to 5 points from John Tavares, Edinburgh added a superstar to the lineup in a trade with Madrid.…
Bratislava 7, Berlin 2 – After an atypically sluggish start, Jonathan Toews is officially on fire. He has scored 2 goals in each of the last four games and in the three games before those, he scored once in each to put him on a 7-game goal scoring streak. In those 7 games, the team…
Munich 5, Frankfurt 2 – Eleven different Dire Wolves earned points in a win over one of their German rivals. The win had large playoff implications, even though there is a lot of time left on the league schedule. If Frankfurt had won in regulation, they would have been a point behind 8th-place Munich with…
As a half-dozen EURO League teams scratch and claw for the President’s Trophy at the top of the standings, an even tighter battle is going on for the individual scoring title. If the season ended today, all-star game MVP Ryan Kesler of Dublin would win it with 72 points in 54 games. But if it…
Recap of Thursday’s games Oslo 3, Copenhagen 2 – Fredrik Norrena kicked, poked, slid, dropped and flopped his way to a thrilling win for the Oslo Outlaws on Thursday in Copenhangen against a Trident team that fired 44 shots at him. Mark Fayne, Calvin De Haan and Max Talbot blocked 7 more Copenhagen shots in…
Recap of Tuesday and Wednesday games Bern 3, Belfast 1 – A Pascal Dupuis goal, his 8th, late in the first period put the Bears ahead of the Giants and they built the lead on Tobias Enstrom’s 9th goal with 2:13 to play in the game. Belfast, who challenged for first overall earlier in the…
Recap of Monday games Minsk 5, Helsinki 1 – The Minsk Hussars are for real. Their 5-1 win over Helsinki Monday was maybe even a little more lopsided than the score indicated. Minsk, playing at home before a crowd of 16,673, outshot their Finnish visitors 49-12, led 3-0 after a period and 5-0 after two.…
Recap of Sunday’s games Edinburgh 6, Helsinki 5 – The Edinburgh Capitals were able to overcome Nerius Alisauskas and that was saying a lot … on Sunday, at least. The Helsinki defense who had scored 3 goals this season entering the game, scored a hat trick, including two lasers in the third period that sent…
