Things to look for as the season winds down: The President’s Trophy as the league’s best regular season team is still in doubt. Minsk as 112 points with six games to play and Belfast has 110 with five games left. This I find unbelievable: Belfast could finish as the league’s top team and two of…
Will some of the EURO League’s teams get unexpected lineup boosts just in time for the playoffs? It might be less than a week* when we find out the attributes of players like Auston Matthews of Copenhagen, Mitch Marner of Moscow and Ivan Provorov of Paris. The next question is how will their teams use…
Paris 3, Gothenburg 1 – Benoit Pouliot scored a goal to make it 2-0 and then he assisted on Ossi Vaananen’s goal in the third that relieved a lot of pressure and put the Rouge Eiffels up 3-1. Alex Pietrangelo scored the game’s first goal and in the process, he set a new personal best…
Munich 6, Olso 2 – Craig Smith’s goal in the third period of a lopsided win for his Munich Dire Wolf didn’t mean much in the game, but it kept the league’s longest goal scoring streak alive. Smith has scored a goal in each of the Wolves’ last 7 games. Munich looked extremely strong, limited…
Paris 6, Minsk 0 – In the tight Southern Conference, Paris moved up into first place as both Bratislava and Madrid lost ground. The Rouge Eiffels clobbered Minsk, scoring 4 goals in the first period and getting multi-point games from David Perron, Mike Richards, Corey Perry and Alexander Semin. Philipp Grubauer made his 14th appearance…
With less than three weeks to play in the regular season, there are some league records that are in jeopardy of being broken. Below are the current EURO records with comments in red about the records that have realistic chances of being broken. Team Records (regular season) Most points in a season: 144, Minsk, Season 6 Fewest points…
Two match penalties were issued in games played Saturday and suspensions have been announced by EURO League Accountant and Secretary Rose. Sepp Blatter, the EURO League’s director of player safety and discipline, is normally the one who issues such penalties, but he was unreachable by phone. “Sepp left me and the commissioner alone in the office…
Madrid 4, Lisbon 2 – The Madrid Royals have consistently been near the top of the league this season and their team-first attitude brought them another 2 points in the standings Saturday when it looked for a while they would get nothing against Lisbon. Coach Dan Bylsma tends to keep his very best players separated…
