Edinburgh 4, Belfast 2 – Belfast’s Matt Duchene – who is having a dream season – started the Giants on the right foot by scoring twice in the first period, but Edinburgh stole the game away with 4 goals in the second period. Sidney Crosby stuck it to the team that traded him by setting up…
London 2, St. Petersburg 1 – Good goaltending and good penalty killing allowed the London Dons to snap a seven-game losing streak. Martin Jones stopped 26 of 27 Krasnyye Zvezdy shots and St. Petersburg’s powerplay units were shut out in all 7 of their man-advantage situations. Frenchman Gregory Beron scored the game-winning goal, putting London ahead…
Munich 4, Prague 1 – Goalie Cory Schneider, defenseman Cody Ceci and the rest of Munich’s back end did most of the work enabling the Bavarian team to send Prague back over the border empty-handed. Schneider stopped all but one of Sparta’s 24 shots and Ceci played strong defense and assisted on two goals. Talgat Zhailauov…
St. Petersburg 3, Moscow 2 – The Krasnyye Zvezdy got into penalty trouble early against their fellow Russians, and Moscow got on the scoreboard first while a St. Petersburg player was in the box. But that was the last of the Dynamo’s joy. Petrograd tied the game in the second period on a laser from defenseman Brenden…
Oslo 5, Athens 3 – The Outlaws got ahead of the Gods with three first-period goals and couldn’t be caught. Tyler Seguin scored his team-leading 26th goal and added 2 assists, with teammates Connor McDavid (2 goals) and Andrew Shaw (2 assists) also putting in multi-point games. For Athens, Andrew Ladd had 3 points and…
London Dons Overachiever: Kevin Shattenkirk. Season of upheaval and injuries hurt most players on the team but Shattenkirk seems unfazed. The 28-year-old has a 13.1 shooting percentage and leads Dons D-men in scoring and he averages more than a blocked shot per game, and nearly 3 hits per game. Underachiever: Michael Grabner. Austrian just turned 30 but…
Moscow 5, Minsk 3 – Chris Stewart lengthened his goal-scoring streak to 4 games on a goal that put Moscow in front 3-0 and gave his teammates plenty of breathing room against the defending Cup champions who beat them two days earlier. Stewart has 5 goals in those four games and the last goalie to…
Belfast 3, Oslo 2 – Ondrej Palat had 11 shots on goal and scored what turned out to be the game-winning goal for Belfast in Norway. The visitors deserved the win, outshooting the Outlaws 42-21. Palat, who now has 19 goals and 43 points, also assisted on a shorthanded goal by Claude Giroux that opened…
This is just one guy’s opinion of who is overachieving and underachieving this season for each EURO League team. Feel free to comment on the Websim story. This is part 1 of 2 with the teams listed in alphabetical order. It was written before Friday’s games. Look for the second set of 12 teams over…
Bern 5, Lisbon 2 – Goalie Mike Smith and the last-place Bern Interrail fought back from a two-goal deficit for an emphatic win against a good team. Lisbon came out of the blocks fast, outshooting Bern 16-4 in the first period and the Portuguese team led 2-0 with about half a game to play. Then…
