Geneva and Gothenburg won games Sunday that they had to in order to stay in the playoff hunt. The Generals got a goal from Mike Fisher with just 29 seconds left to beat visiting Bern 3-2. Geneva, who lost defenseman Karel Rachunek to a groin injury in the game, is in 9th place in the Southern Conference just a point behind Prague and each team has 3 games to play. Gothenburg plays Kharlamov Division rival St. Petersburg three times in the next week and the Devils took the first meeting easily. Pekka Rinne stopped 27 of 28 Red Star shots and Adam Henrique scored twice and added two assists. Gothenburg and Dublin are now tied for 8th place in the Northern Conference with 78 points and 4 games remaining.

Elsewhere, John Tavares passed to Steven Stamkos six and a half minutes into the Berlin-Lisbon game, and history was made. Stamkos beat Jimmy Howard with a shot from the right face-off dot and in the process, both he and Tavares set EURO records. Stamkos’ 57th goal of the season gave Tavares his 79th assist. Berlin won the game on a Loui Ericsson goal with just 16 seconds left in overtime and Howard was named the game’s first star.

Berlin got a point closer to the Belfast Giants for the overall lead because the Giants were stopped in Paris. The game also went into overtime and Evgeny Malkin did Berlin a favor by firing a wrist shot over Jonathan Quick’s shoulder a minute into OT. Joffrey Lupul and Mikko Koivu each had a goal and two assists for Paris.

Madrid trailed Munich 2-1 in the third period but ended up with the win after scoring 4 times in the third period. Defenseman Roman Polak had 3 assists and was plus 3 for the Royals, while teammate Andrej Meszaros had 2 assists, 7 hits and 2 blocked shots. Copenhagen surprised Athens 3-1 as Drew Shore and Benoit Pouliot scored goals 1:44 apart in the second period to give the Tridents a 2-0 lead. They outshot the Greeks 37-27.