It looks like either Paris or Minsk will be the next home of the EURO Cup. The Rouges Eiffels and Hussars are both enjoying 3-0 leads in their conference finals series. Berlin and Belfast will have to pull off miraculous runs – four straight wins – to change things. Minsk-Belfast series Minsk has looked unbeatable against Belfast,…
The second round of the 2017-18 playoffs are in the books and the four teams that finished highest in the regular season have moved on to their conference finals. As I did after the first round, I have named players who had the best round. Chuck’s Second-Round Heroes First Team F- Derek Stepan, Madrid –…
Paris leads Athens, 2 games to 1 Athens found a way to win against Paris to narrow the Rouge Eiffels’ lead in their series to 2 games to one. After getting shelled in Game 1 by a 7-2 score, The Greeks were hammered again in Paris, losing 6-0 in the second game of the series. Evgeny…
Gothenburg 4, Minsk 3 – Pekka Rinne looked like an octopus on Thursday, thwarting the Hussars time and time again and finishing with 56 saves as Gothenburg knotted the series at one game apiece. The series shifts to Sweden for Games 3 and 4 on Saturday and Monday. While Rinne was being great, Carey Price didn’t…
The higher seeded teams all won with home-ice advantage to take 1-0 leads in their second round match-ups. Belfast 5, Moscow 2 – The Giants tightened up their defensive game after Belfast’s Cody Franson scored from the point to tie the game at 2-2 in the first period. Franson also scored a relatively meaningless fifth…
Rose was reinstated today by Sepp Blatter following her Cookie Incident suspension and the first thing she did when she walked into the office was smile and hold up 6 fingers. “The lowly accountant/secretary correctly predicted six first round winners and the brainiac Commissioner only got two right (Minsk and Berlin). Yeah! Maybe I should…
The first round of the EURO League playoffs is finished and there were not too many surprises in the team results. The top four seeds in the Northern Conference all advanced as did the top three in the Southern Conference. Ahens, which was only a point behind Munich in the regular season, was the only…
Madrid defeats Bratislava in 7 games – It looked for a while that Tyler Toffoli of Bratislava had a Midas touch that was going to send Madrid to the golf course, but the Royals stormed back with three goals in 3:32 after Toffoli put the Eagles in front halfway through the third period. Madrid wound…
Playoff update: We will have two Game 7’s on Saturday to decide who advances in the Southern Conference. Northern Conference Gothenburg defeats Stockholm in 6 games – Game 6 featured great goaltending in both nets and for the first time in the series, the away team won, and that meant elimination for Stockholm. Pekka Rinne made…
Breaking: Rick Nash has recovered enough to return to the London lineup tonight for Game 6 against Belfast. Tuesday games Athens 2, Munich 1 – Dire Wolf fans are not happy at the moment. They were giddy about a week ago when their team bolted out to a two games to none lead in their…
