Stockholm 3, Geneva 2 – More than 20,000 attended Stockholm’s first win of the season. They saw Braden Holtby, Magnus Johansson and Mike Richards turn a tie game into a win. Holtby kept Geneva off the scoreboard through two periods and 17 shots, and when he finally was score upon by Erik Cole, they helped him out by scoring twice in the last 12 and a half minutes. Johansson scored his first of the season and then he assisted on Richards’ second goal of the game. Stockholm will be without three of their top 4 defensemen who are injured. Zach Bogosian was dinged up and could miss a game or two, but Mike Green and Olli Maatta are out for a long time.
London 3, Prague 2 (shootout) – London was about to become Prague’s fourth victim in four games when Michael Grabner saved the day and helped the Dons leave the Czech Republic with 2 points. Prague’s new dynamic duo – Ryan Getzlaf and Jason Spezza – provided the goals that gave Prague a 2-0 lead after two periods, but Grabner scored with a little less than half a period to play, and then, with the goalie pulled, he tied it with just 8 seconds on the clock. Martin Jones made 34 saves for London, and Dmitri Kulikov of Prague blocked 5 shots.
Helsinki 3, Moscow 2 – No one gets a lot of shots on Moscow, but the Helsinki Jokerit made the most of their chances and left the Russian capital with a win in regulation time. Spartak allows an average of 17 shots on goal coming into the game and the Jokerit got 20. Zack Smith and Paul Stastny scored in the first period, Moscow tied it 2-2, and Thomas Vanek won it for Helsinki with a deflection goal with 3:17 to play. Helsinki seemed to change their game a little to surprise Moscow. Hits in the game were 19-18 in favor of Spartak. Henrik Lundqvist got the win in goal with 31 saves.
Madrid 4, Bern 3 (OT) – Madrid moved to 3-1-0 on the season with an overtime win in Bern. Roman Polak scored his first two goals of the season and Patrik Berglund had a goal and an assist, the assist coming in overtime and on the powerplay as Alex Tanguay converted the pass into the game-winner with 8 seconds left. Bern’s Mike Smith and Madrid’s Robin Lehner both made more than 30 saves. Bern out-hit the Royals 31-21.
Edinburgh 4, Dublin 2 – Dublin out-shot Edinburgh 40-25 but lost to visiting Edinburgh mainly due to the goaltending of Kari Lehtonen. The Caps’ Jamie Benn, Casey Cizikas and Blake Comeau all entered the game without a goal yet this season, but each scored on Brian Elliott. Benn scored twice in a 12-minute span of the first period. Edinburgh defenseman Gurkan Cetinkaya had 2 assists, 4 hits and 2 blocked shots. Milan Michalek and Phil Kessel scored for the Irish.
St. Petersburg 4, Minsk 2 – The Red Stars got off to a 2-0 lead and the Hussars could never catch up. St. Petersburg’s Artem Anisimov and Brad Richards scored to give the Red Stars a 2-0 lead before Milan Lucic scored to cut the lead to one goal. St. Petersburg also got goals from Valtteri Filppula and Jeff Petry also scored, while Marius Holtet scored Minsk’s other goal. Viktor Stalberg had 3 asissts for SP and rookie teammate Jan Kovar had 7 shots on goalie Carey Price.
