The Athens Gods had a dream season, finishing first overall, but the Smurfs were their nightmare in the Southern Conference finals. The biggest Berlin win was in Game 2, when Staffan Kronwall scored a goal to tie it 1-1 and Derek Ryan scored on the third shot in overtime to win it. It was the…
The Conference Finals begin Friday and it’s down to 4 teams.One has been there before – many times. Here is a look at what the four teams bring to the table Northern Conference The upstart London Ice Lords who finished with 97 points and were 4th in the North go up against the #2 in…
Athens 4, Paris 3 It was one of the closest series in memory and Athens advanced to the conference finals in a real nail-biting tense Game 7 when Brandon Sutter scored one of the biggest goals in franchise history with 1:30 remaining in the first OT period. He also scored the only goal in the…
Berlin 4, Geneva 1 The Generals played a wide-open style but the Smurfs beat them at their own game. Only 2 of the 12 playoff series saw no team scored fewer than 2 goals in a game and Geneva was in both of them. Berlin was just better. At least 8 Smurfs were +4 or…
Here’s a glance at what happened in Round 2 of the playoffs in the Northern Conference: London 4. St. Petersburg 0 The Ice Lords maintained momentum from their first-round sweep of Copenhagen and surprised St. Petersburg in games 1 and 2 in Petrograd. The Ice Lords won by at least 2 goals in every game.…
Minsk and Paris were the only lower-seeded teams to advance into the second round of the EURO playoffs. Here’s a brief look at each first-round series. Belfast 4, Stockholm 2 Stockholm didn’t get its act together until they were down 3-0 in the series. Giants sent the Eagles packing with 3 powerplay goals in Game…
Northern Conference Stockholm (77 points) at Belfast (114 points) ROSE: The Eagles will pull the upset thanks to big Zach Bogosian and the right wingers on the team: T.J. Oshie, Blake Wheeler and Brayden Schenn. Bogosian scored 18 goals during the season and it’s not because he was lucky. And while Stockholm’s defensemen scored just…
It seems like a simple question: Who were the best defensive forwards in the EURO League? But it’s difficult to quantify the answer. You can tell just by watching Adam Henrique of Gothenburg play that he really knows his way around the defensive zone, but how do you attach numbers to what Henrique does so…
Will somebody please make sense of the Minsk Hussars? They won the Season 8 Cup, lost Carey Price and Nicklas Backstrom to free agency, plummeted in the standings and were much clsoer to missing the playoffs than defending their crown, but now suddenly … they are on the best run of results in the league.…
With the score 3-0 in favor of Belfast early in the Giants’ final regular season game Friday, Belfast was killing a penalty when Erik Karlsson poked the puck away from Gothenburg’s Adam Henrique and moved it up to captain Claude Giroux along the right boards. Their teammate Gabriel Landeskog sensed and opportunity and took off…
