Gothenburg 3, St. Petersburg 2 (OT-SO) – All four goals scored in Tuesday’s game occurred while St. Petersburg had a man advantage: two powerplay goals by the Red Stars and two shorthanded goals by Frolunda. After a conservative overtime period, the game had to be decided in a shootout, with Adam Henrique and Carl Hagelin…
Dublin 6, Zurich 1 – Fans of the Dublin Fighting Irish have grown accustomed to relying on their top line to score goals and win games for the team. In the beginning, Ryan Kesler, Phil Kessel and Bobby Ryan teamed up to form one of the EURO’s most feared lines. Then Ryan left in a trade…
Oslo 5, Belfast 2– Where did that come from? The league’s 24th-ranked team out-skated and out-played the two-time defending champs Thursday night, winning by 3 goals. Oslo’s Connor McDavid is already making a name for himself in Norway. The 18-year-old whiz kid is playing up to lofty expectations with 26 points in 23 games for…
Russian defenseman Maxim Chudinov is just 22, but he has already put together three straight seasons of 100 minutes or more in penalties. On Tuesday, he overdid it and got another penalty that costs him much more than two minutes. In the first period, Morgan Rielly of the Oslo Outlaws fell to the ice and Minsk’s…
After nearly a month away from writing, I’m back … hopefully for an extended stay. Some special projects at work have been keeping me too busy to write lately. A quick catch-up overview since we last met: Minsk is flying along in first place, looking like the team to beat, but perennial powers Paris, Belfast, Berlin and…
