Edinburgh 3, Geneva 2 – A close game in Geneva went to the visitors, who were just a little bit better. Edinburgh had 29 shots on goal to Geneva’s 23 and they were able to hold onto the 3-0 lead they had when Carl Soderberg sniped his 6th of the season very early in the second…
A rash of suspensions in the EURO League this week has turned a suspicious eye toward Sepp Blatter, the league’s director of player safety and discipline. On Tuesday, two players drew suspensions: Roman Horak, Athens, 2 games for a slash to Prague defenseman Robin Grossman’s ankle Justin Faulk, Belfast, 1 game for an elbow that…
Zurich 3, Bern 2 – The first period was a deflating one for the Bears and they never really recovered against their fellow Swiss. Bern came out strong in the beginning, outshooting the Lions 13-5 in the first period while Zurich seemed to be busy digging themselves a hole to climb out of. While killing…
St. Petersburg 1, London 0 – Halfway through a quiet and frankly, flat first period, Danis Zaripov took a Devante Smith-Pelly pass from the side boards and snapped a shot toward the London net … and it snuck past goalie Martin Jones and crossed the line. Not a highlight reel goal by any stretch of the…
Sepp Blatter has two more player suspensions to announce. On Friday, 23-year-old Stefan Ulmer, an Austrian playing for the Smurfs, received a match penalty for spearing at the same time Bern’s Olli Malmivaara sustained a hernia injury. We’ll let you connect the dots and draw your own picture of what happened on the play. Berlin…
Dublin 7, Helsinki 3 – It was a really good day for Matthew Carle, Milan Michalek and their Dublin teammates and a really bad day for Henrik Lundquist. The Swedish goalie playing for the Jokerit yielded 7 goals, two of them by Michalek that came 25 seconds apart. Carle channeled his inner Paul Coffey and tallied…
