Recap of Sunday game Minsk 2, Athens 1 – Even with backup goalie Anton Khudobin in goal, the Minsk Hussars looked in control at home against one of the league’s top teams. Minsk outshot Athens 36-17 and the game was scoreless until the last minute of the second period, when Minsk’s Thomas Powell set up…
Oslo 4, St. Petersburg 2 – Rookie defenseman Eric Gelinas is seeing full-time duty in the EURO League for the first time as a member of the Oslo Outlaws, and boy is he seeing full-time duty. On Wednesday, he played on the top defense pairing with Luca Sbisa and he was stationed on the point…
Minsk 3, Dublin 2 – The Minsk Hussars continue to climb the standings in the EURO League and it seems they can do no wrong lately, so when Jakub Voracek tied the hit-filled game in the third period, Dublin fans knew their team was in trouble. The Irish, despite being outshot 13-7 in the third…
Munich 4, Paris 3 – The Paris Rouge Eiffels sit 2 points out of first place in the Southern Conference with games in hand over the two teams ahead of them, and if any team needs to finish first in their conference and get home ice advantage throughout the playoffs, it’s Paris. The Eiffels are…
Recap of Sunday games Stockholm 4, Oslo 0 – Could a good waiver pickup lift the play of the whole team? Stockholm general Manager Michael Sauer said there might be some correlation between the acquisition of former Edinburgh defenseman Karl Alzner and the play of Kevin Bieksa, who scored 3 points Sunday. There might be…
Max Pacioretty assisted on two goals scored by longtime linemates Steven Stamkos and Claude Giroux when the Inferno defeated Milan 6-3 on Sunday, but he won’t feed them any more passes. About five hours after the game, it was announced that Pacioretty has been traded to the defending champion Moscow Spartak. Moscow gave up plenty…
Edinburgh 5, Helsinki 3 – The Edinburgh Capitals made a 2-point move up the standings and a major move in their lineup Thursday. After handing the reeling Jokerit their 13th loss in the last 16 games thanks to 5 points from John Tavares, Edinburgh added a superstar to the lineup in a trade with Madrid.…
Bratislava 7, Berlin 2 – After an atypically sluggish start, Jonathan Toews is officially on fire. He has scored 2 goals in each of the last four games and in the three games before those, he scored once in each to put him on a 7-game goal scoring streak. In those 7 games, the team…
Munich 5, Frankfurt 2 – Eleven different Dire Wolves earned points in a win over one of their German rivals. The win had large playoff implications, even though there is a lot of time left on the league schedule. If Frankfurt had won in regulation, they would have been a point behind 8th-place Munich with…
As a half-dozen EURO League teams scratch and claw for the President’s Trophy at the top of the standings, an even tighter battle is going on for the individual scoring title. If the season ended today, all-star game MVP Ryan Kesler of Dublin would win it with 72 points in 54 games. But if it…
