Paris 6, Berlin 0 – The Paris Rouges Eiffels employed an interesting strategy on their trip into Berlin Thursday. Knowing the Smurfs hate and fear the league’s all-time co-leader in goals and second-best point producer ever – Evgeny Malkin – they used him as a decoy. Malkin, who played with the wrong curve on his…

Athens 5, Madrid 4 (OT-SO) – The Gods beat Madrid in the end, but the Royals were somehow able to squeeze a point out of the loss. Logan Couture’s 27th goal of the season put Athens up 4-3 in the third period and he and his teammates were holding on to the lead when Loui…

Helsinki 6, Edinburgh 4 – A Jokerit win had playoff implications for both teams. The Capitals are locked in a fierce struggle with Dublin for the final playoff berth in the Northern Conference and they seemed to have the momentum, beating the Fighting Irish twice in the last week and rolling into Finland on a…

Edinburgh 4, Belfast 2 – Belfast’s Matt Duchene – who is having a dream season – started the Giants on the right foot by scoring twice in the first period, but Edinburgh stole the game away with 4 goals in the second period. Sidney Crosby stuck it to the team that traded him by setting up…

London 2, St. Petersburg 1 – Good goaltending and good penalty killing allowed the London Dons to snap a seven-game losing streak.  Martin Jones stopped 26 of 27 Krasnyye Zvezdy shots and St. Petersburg’s powerplay units were shut out in all 7 of their man-advantage situations. Frenchman Gregory Beron scored the game-winning goal, putting London ahead…

Munich 4, Prague 1 – Goalie Cory Schneider, defenseman Cody Ceci and the rest of Munich’s back end did most of the work enabling the Bavarian team to send Prague back over the border empty-handed. Schneider stopped all but one of Sparta’s 24 shots and Ceci played strong defense and assisted on two goals. Talgat Zhailauov…

St. Petersburg 3, Moscow 2 – The Krasnyye Zvezdy got into penalty trouble early against their fellow Russians, and Moscow got on the scoreboard first while a St. Petersburg player was in the box. But that was the last of the Dynamo’s joy. Petrograd tied the game in the second period on a laser from defenseman Brenden…

Oslo 5, Athens 3 – The Outlaws got ahead of the Gods with three first-period goals and couldn’t be caught. Tyler Seguin scored his team-leading 26th goal and added 2 assists, with teammates Connor McDavid (2 goals) and Andrew Shaw (2 assists) also putting in multi-point games. For Athens, Andrew Ladd had 3 points and…