Here is a look at how the new champions of the EURO league – Les Rouges Eiffels de Paris – were constructed by GM Ralph Booth. Five starters on the team were acquired during the season in 5 separate trades, 4 of them with Stockholm. In the league’s initial draft, Paris picked in the middle…
Teemu Selanne won’t be speeding around the ice in a Gothenburg sweater any more. Daniel Alfredsson has traded a lockerroom in Milan for a rocking chair his family’s home in native Sweden, and Jaromir Jagr has retired from Belfast and hockey. And one of the best defensemen ever, Nicklas Lidstrom, has hung up the skates…
There couldn’t have been a more exciting finish to a season. Game 6 of the EURO Cup finals was seconds away from going into overtime when Joffrey Lupul wired a shot through Pekka Rinne to win the second-ever EURO Cup for Paris. There were 4 seconds left on the clock at the time. Les Rouges…
Playing before another packed house in St. Petersburg, the Red Stars refused to die Monday. Falling behind Paris 1-0 early when Corey Perry scored his 11th goal of the playoffs, St. Pete clawed their way back and took a 3-1 lead into the second period. Top line center Brad Richards took an Erik Cole pass…
Paris is sitting pretty, just a win away from hoisting the EURO Cup overhedd, and it was a goal from a fourth-liner that looms as the biggest of the series so far. After losing Game 1 by a 6-2 score, Paris has surged ahead with three wins in a row. In Game 4, Paris used…
The Erik Cole-Brad Richards-Blake Wheeler line skated at its best Thursday to lead the Red Stars to a win in the series opener, but St. Petersburg got help from unlikely sources as well. Youngsters Jonathan Huberdeau and Danis Zaripov chipped in with a combined 8 shots and 2 goals on Tuukka Rask and the Paris…
All eyes are on St. Petersburg, Russia, tonight as the Red Stars host Les Rouges Eiffels for Game 1 of the EURO Cup Finals. Both teams enter the series healthy and fresh from resounding victories in their respective conference finals. St. Petersburg conquered Edinburgh 4 games to none, while Paris brushed aside Athens in five…
The race for the second-ever EURO Cup might go from a 4-team field to a 2-horse race very soon. Both St. Petersburg and Paris have stormed their way to 3-0 leads in the conference finals that started Friday. St. Petersburg leads Edinburgh in series, 3-0 This series has been close for the first two periods,…
Edinburgh beats Copenhagen in series, 4-3 A stunning upset has the Edinburgh Capitals playing for the Northern Conference championship. The Caps, who finished the regular season 43-32-7, good enough for fifth in the conference and 12th overall in the EURO, and who were a loss away from elimination twice in the first round against Dublin…
Three of the four teams fighting to make the Northern Conference finals have won Game 7s already this season. They hope that experience will serve them well Thursday morning, when both Northern Conference finalists will be decided. The Edinburgh Capitals will play in Copenhagen, while Moscow Spartak will be in St. Petersburg for the Battle…
