Paris 4, Munich 3 (shootout) Shut out the night before and trailing 3-1 with a little more than 2 minutes to go, the Paris Rouges Eiffels found something inside them and pulled out 2 points. Kyle Turris scored his 5th of the season on a 2-on-1 with David Perron with 2:14 to play, and then…
Prague 3, Paris 0 Ryan Miller bested Jose Theodore in a top-notch goalie battle. The former Buffalo Sabre stopped all 35 shots to earn his second shutout of the year and his first without an owner looking. For the third time this season, a team was abandoned and for the third time, it was abandoned…
Frankfurt 2, Minsk 0 Ondrej Pavelec shut out the Minsk Hussars, making 23 saves, while Steven Stamkos scored his 16th and Bryan Allen his 3rd for Frankfurt. Stamkos had 7 shots on goal, while Allen had 3. The only other player to have more than 2 shots was Jakub Voracek of Minsk, who had 5.…
St. Petersburg 2, Copenhagen 1 Two third period goals decided a matchup of two of the league’s best goalies, as Pekka Rinne’s St. Petersburg Lynx beat Robert Luongo’s Copenhagen Tridents. Andrew Ladd put Copenhagen in front with a first period goal that held up until Jeff Petry and Daniel Alfredsson scored for St. Petersburg. Luongo…
Edinburgh 3, Belfast 0 The line of James Neal, Derek Stepan and Jamie Benn connected for two first period goals and Henrik Lundquist all 19 Belfast shots on Thursday. Neal later added his 10th of the season on the powerplay to help his Capitals distance themselves from the Giants. Chris Campoli had 5 shot blocks…
Athens 6, Milan 3 T.J. Oshie racked up 5 points on Wednesday as the Greeks won convincingly in Milan. Oshie scored the Greeks’ fourth goal and assisted on 4 other goals, including two by David Backes. The two former St. Louis Blues teammates are by far the top two scorers on the Athens squad this…
Frankfurt 5, Belfast 0 Claude Giroux scored 2 for the Inferno and Ondrej Pavelec shut out the Giants in front of a crowd of 14,312 German fans. Giroux now has 10 goals this season. The 2 points in the standings pushed Frankfurt ahead of Athens and into 23rd place, just 2 points behind 4 other…
Henrik Sedin is packing his bags tonight to move from central Spain to northern Italy. For the second time in four days, the Madrid Royals have made a defense-oriented trade. (To be read in Gary Bettman’s voice) Madrid trades Henrik Sedin to Milan for Jordan Staal, prospect Chris Kreider, Milan’s second round pick next season…
Zurich 4, Geneva 3 The Zurich Lions busted an 11-game losing streak by taking a train 280 kilometers to the west and beating their Swiss cousins in Geneva. Zurich scored twice in the last 9 minutes to get the win. Big defenseman Barrett Jackman sent a wrist shot into a crowd in front of the…
This is an abbreviated report. It seems weekends are more difficult for me to update (Commish Chuck). Oslo 3, Moscow 2 On only their second powerplay chance, the Devils made good on it, getting a goal from Marc Andre Bergeron that won it for them in the third period. Moscow’s best player was Michal Handzus,…
