Stockholm 2, Minsk 1 – The high-flying Minsk Hussars took one on the chin Friday on home ice with the Stockholm Eagles jumping out to a 2-0 lead and holding on until the end. Minsk had won 9 straight games and 11 of their last 12 before the loss to Stockholm. A Zac Rinaldo-Zach Bogosian…

Berlin 5, Frankfurt 1 – The Berlin Smurfs played a very aggressive and active game against Frankfurt Thursday and the Inferno could never really get into it. Berlin outshot Frankfurt 51-26, out-hit them 30-18 and when Logan Couture scored a shorthanded goal in the second period to make it 3-1, it seemed a foregone conclusion…

Zurich 3, Bratislava 2 – Thanks to three goals in the final 11:16 of the game, the Lions overtook Bratislava in the standings and moved into 5th place in the Southern Conference. Bratislava had a 2-0 shutout going until Patrick Kane scored and then set up the league’s leading goal scorer – Ilya Kovalchuk –…

Rose said this morning, “That President’s Trophy must be pretty nice.” That’s because the 6 top teams seem to skating in a roller derby pack and each one is acting like a blocker and a jammer at the same time. Berlin tried to draft behind leading Moscow Sunday but there was Edinburgh in the way with a big elbow. And Minsk…

Helsinki 6, Madrid 2 – There is still hope in Helsinki. The Jokerit are 2 points away from the last playoff berth in the Northern Conference with 10 games to go. On Thursday in Madrid, the game was the kind of game Helsinki’s general manager likes. Yes, Trevor Grimm likes it rough. There was a furious…

St. Petersburg 3, Bern 0 – That’s two wins in two days for the Red Stars and goalie Antti Niemi. On Wednesday, he shut out the Bears, making 24 saves. St. Petersburg scored a goal in each period with Devante Smith-Pelly scoring his second of the season in the first, Jeff Petry getting his 7th…

Munich 2, Copenhagen 1 – Munich, Frankfurt and Prague all won Tuesday keeping all three of them at 66 points and 3 points behind 8th-place Geneva in the Southern Conference playoff race. Munich downed Copenhagen despite giving up twice as many shots as they took. The Dire Wolf powerplay and the goaltending of Robert Kristan…

Edinburgh 5, London 4 – Nice third period, Luke Schenn. With his team trailing 3-2 to London, the 25-year-old Edinburgh defenseman came out of the dressing room after the second intermission and took matters into his own hands. About a minute into the third period, Schenn blasted a slapshot that was goal number 7 for…

Madrid 6, Frankfurt 3 – The Geneva Generals didn’t play a game Sunday but it was still a pretty successful day for them. Two of the three teams hot on their tail for the final playoff spot in the Southern Conference failed to gain ground. Prague lost to first-place Paris and Frankfurt dropped a game…

Prague 5, Milan 4 – The Milan Guerriero surged ahead of Prague in the second period by scoring four straight goals, but ultimately, Bryan Little was too big for them. Little, who has been on a mini tear, scored twice in the third period and assisted on Dmitiri Kulikov’s game-tying goal. Then in the sixth…