Belfast 4, Bern 0 – The defending champion Belfast Giants played a Belfast Giants game on Friday in Bern. They skated hard, took a lot of penalties and put shots on their opponent’s net. Belfast’s penalty killers not only gave up no goals in 7 Bern powerplay chances, they also came up with two shorthanded goals, by James Neal and Micki Dupont. Both men also had assists in the game. The Giants now have 9 different players who have scored shorthanded goals this season. Belfast forward Ondrej Palat had a goal on 5 shots and he delivered 5 hits. Belfast is second overall in the league while the Bears are mired in 21st.

Paris 5, Madrid 3 – Paris moved its home record to 14-1 with Season 4 MVP Alex Peitrangelo leading the way. The defenseman had a goal and an assist and was plus 3 in the game. Teammate Mikko Koivu added 3 assists to his season total. Koivu is second on the team in assists and fourth in scoring.

London 6, Oslo 0 – Jeff Skinner scored the only two goals of the first period and he added two assist later as the Dons won in Norway. Martin Jones got the shutout with 24 saves. It was the rookie’s first shutout, but he apparently hasn’t been lucky this season because he is second to Jimmy Howard of Berlin in both save percentage (.919) and goals against average (2.45).

Edinburgh 3, St. Petersburg 2 – Claude Giroux scored two first period goals and Martin Thornberg scored the game-winner with 9 minutes to go as the Caps won a game in which they were outshot 412-25 in Russia. Backup Jakub Kovar made 39 saves for Edinburgh. St. Petersburg’s goals were scored my defenseman Dmitri Kalinin and young forward Jonathan Huberdeau.

Gothenburg 4, Munich 3 – Fans in Bavaria saw their team outshoot Gothenburg 36-23 but lose after a comeback that erased a 3-1 Dire Wolf lead. Adam Henrique scored a key, shorthanded goal to tie it in the third period and then Finnish rookie Olli Palola scored his 4th of the season to win it. Braydon Colburn, a defenseman, scored two goals for Munich. Gothenburg has won 7 of 10 and they are currently in 11th place overall and in 6th place in the Northern Conference. Munich suffered a bad injury to a key player when Travis Zajac left with a groin injury. He should be out of action for the rest of December. Damian Brunner, has has scored 4 points in 21 games this season, will probably be called up to replace him. Brunner was supplanted in the lineup by Talgat Zhailauov earlier in the season.

Moscow 5, Helsinki 4 (shootout) – Captain Dustin Brown turned the game around for Moscow in the second period, and although Helsinki scratched back to send it into overtime, Moscow emerged with 2 points after Max Pacioretty scored the only goal in the shootout. Helsinki outshot Moscow 13-11 in the first period and led 3-1 going into the intermission, but Brown scored twice in the second period and Moscow led in shots 33-15 from that point on. Nerius Alisauskas had a goal and an assist to go with 5 hits for Helsinki.