Athens gets a win; Berlin up 3-0

Paris leads Athens, 2 games to 1 Athens found a way to win against Paris to narrow the Rouge Eiffels’ lead in their series to 2 games to one. After getting shelled in Game 1 by a 7-2 score, The Greeks were hammered again in Paris, losing 6-0 in the second game of the series. Evgeny…

Rinne steals a game; Hat trick for Evander

Gothenburg 4, Minsk 3 – Pekka Rinne looked like an octopus on Thursday, thwarting the Hussars time and time again and finishing with 56 saves as Gothenburg knotted the series at one game apiece. The series shifts to Sweden for Games 3 and 4 on Saturday and Monday. While Rinne was being great, Carey Price didn’t…

Top seeds take early leads in Round 2

The higher seeded teams all won with home-ice advantage to take 1-0 leads in their second round match-ups. Belfast 5, Moscow 2 – The Giants tightened up their defensive game after Belfast’s Cody Franson scored from the point to tie the game at 2-2 in the first period. Franson also scored a relatively meaningless fifth…

Rose returns; predictions in for Round 2

Rose was reinstated today by Sepp Blatter following her Cookie Incident suspension and the first thing she did when she walked into the office was smile and hold up 6 fingers. “The lowly accountant/secretary correctly predicted six first round winners and the brainiac Commissioner only got two right (Minsk and Berlin). Yeah! Maybe I should…

First Round Heroes

The first round of the EURO League playoffs is finished and there were not too many surprises in the team results. The top four seeds in the Northern Conference all advanced as did the top three in the Southern Conference. Ahens, which was only a point behind Munich in the regular season, was the only…

Madrid, Athens win Game 7’s

Madrid defeats Bratislava in 7 games – It looked for a while that Tyler Toffoli of Bratislava had a Midas touch that was going to send Madrid to the golf course, but the Royals stormed back with three goals in 3:32 after Toffoli put the Eagles in front halfway through the third period. Madrid wound…

Belfast, Gothenburg advance in North

Playoff update: We will have two Game 7’s on Saturday to decide who advances in the Southern Conference. Northern Conference Gothenburg defeats Stockholm in 6 games – Game 6 featured great goaltending in both nets and for the first time in the series, the away team won, and that meant elimination for Stockholm. Pekka Rinne made…

Athens takes 3-2 series lead

  Breaking: Rick Nash has recovered enough to return to the London lineup tonight for Game 6 against Belfast. Tuesday games Athens 2, Munich 1 – Dire Wolf fans are not happy at the moment. They were giddy about a week ago when their team bolted out to a two games to none lead in their…

Dallman shot beats Holtby, Eagles

The two home teams won Monday night in Northern Conference first-round series that, as most predicted, would be real battles. Both home teams won and now each holds a 3-2 lead in their series. Gothenburg 3, Stockholm 2 (OT) – The game in Gothenburg between Swedish foes was one of the best playoff games the…

Here’s the EURO 100-Point Club

Lisbon superstar Steven Stamkos couldn’t make another 100-point season happen this year, meaning no one has reached that plateau in every season of the league’s existence. Stamkos, of Lisbon, did make it six straight seasons of 82 games played, but he finished with 33 goals and 84 points, by far his lowest point total ever.…