In Friday’s 6-3 London win in Edinburgh, Jason Zucker, a speedy winger for the Dons, had the puck and was skating down the wing alone when he stopped and posed for Snapchat taken by his girlfriend who had made the trip to Scotand to watch him play. He waved and smiled for the photo, slowly stickhandling…
Belfast 4, Minsk 2 – Mikko Lehtonen scored twice in the first period and Claude Giroux scored a pair in the second period as Belfast passed Stockholm for second place in the Northern Conference while making up some ground on the conference-leading Hussars. Coach Alain Vigneault’s Giants shut down the Hussars’ top line of Milan…
Dublin 4, Moscow 2 – The Moscow Dynamo started well on the road and jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but Dublin stormed back with four goals in the final 26 minutes. Three of the Irish goals were scored on the powerplay. Jakub Petruzalek and Jakob Silfverberg, who both have 19 points this season in…
The EURO League’s All-Star Game History and Guide Book, which details all six of the games that have been played thus far, is available as an e-book online at http://online.flipbuilder.com/xwfl/agni/. If you look at it close enough you will get a hint of the strange career of defenseman Shea Weber. Weber is 32 years old now…
Plans are under way for the Season 7 EURO All-Star Game, to be held on the weekend of January 28-29. Those were the dates most convenient for Berlin’s underrated superstar Erik Forssell. General Managers in the EURO League will be asked to vote on the host city for this year’s all-star game. The host city will…
Gothenburg 4, St. Petersburg 3 – A late goal by Dan Girardi gave Gothenburg a win they probably didn’t deserve and allowed them to keep pace with the Swedish cousins in Stockholm, who won in a similar fashion. Although they gave up the game’s first two goals, the Krasnyye Zvezdy took the lead later with…
Editor’s note: I’ll attempt to get back into writing about our league, although I can’t promise much regularity. This will help me get my life back to normal, if that’s what one could call what I had going. This is a look around the league as most teams are 31 games into the season. Teams…
Athens 4, Berlin 3 – Bobby Butler scored the winning goal for Athens with 3:36 to play and from then on, goalie Jaroslav Halak kept the Smurfs from tying the game. But the real damage to the Smurfs came from their old buddies. Alexander Edler, a Gods defenseman who was traded from Berlin after six…
Minsk 3, Bratislava 2 – The Minsk Hussars stopped Bratislava’s run and regained first place overall, but it wasn’t easy. After Minsk scored twice in the first period, the Eagles clawed back to tie the game in the third. Nicklas Backstrom scored the Hussars’ second powerplay goal with 6:39 remaining and backup goalie Anton Khudobin…
If a quick look at league statistics can be trusted, Marko Dano, 22, is definitely pulling his weight in Copenhagen as a second-line right wing. Dano leads the league in turnover ratio, having taken away 34 pucks and given up only 14 for a ratio of +20 through 22 games played. At the other end of…
