Dublin 5, Moscow 3 – The Fighting Irish fought hard enough Sunday to claim two points in the standings and send Moscow home with none. Dublin got into penalty trouble early in the game but battled back to tie and eventually overtake the invaders from Moscow. David Backes put Moscow in front with a pair of goals in the…
Munich 5, London 4 – Craig Smith isn’t the only one benefitting from an increase in his ice time. His Munich Dire Wolf teammates and fans get something out of it too. Like on Saturday, when the Madison, Wisconsin native scored twice – including the game-winner – to help Munich surprise London in England. Playing…
Oslo 3, Athens 2 (OT – SO) – The Oslo Outlaws kept Athens’ big guns off the scoreboard and emerged from Greece with a win. Anze Kopitar, T.J. Oshie, Andrew Ladd and Jason Pominville were able to fire a combined 22 shots at the Oslo net, but Semyon Varlamov was on his game and stopped…
Paris 6, Milan 4 – Evgeny Malkin looks like he’s a man on a mission this season. The 30-year-old whose worst season thus far in the league was when he produced “only” 99 points in Paris’ Cup-winning season, is on pace for a personal best 138 points and he is the league’s leading scorer right now.…
St. Petersburg 5, Edinburgh 3 – The Red Stars fired 53 shots on Edinburgh goalie Jakub Kovar on Wednesday. One of the players Jakub was facing was his older brother Jan, the reigning Rookie of the Year. Jan scored once and had a game-high 8 shots on his brother and when the game’s 3 stars were…
Minsk 5, Belfast 1 – In what most observers thought would be a titanic clash of EURO giants, Tuesday’s Belfast at Minsk game was anything but. The Hussars demolished the Giants 5-1, outshooting them 48-19 in the process. The two-time defending champs have won only 4 times in their last 9 games. Still, there seems to…
Two of the great cities of Europe finally have two of the great teams in the EURO League. It took London longer to reach the high ground that Paris has occupied for the last four-plus seasons, but in a head-to-head battle on Monday, the Dons proved they are now a force in the league. London…
Milan’s Tomas Zaborsky is the unlucky winner of the season’s first suspension, issued today by Sepp Blatter, EURO’s director of player safety and discipline. A minute into his first shift in Milan’s 5-2 loss in Prague on Friday, Zaborsky slammed Marcel Hossa into the boards as both were pursuing a puck from opposite directions. Hossa…
It was a nasty game in Belarus Monday between the Minsk Hussars and Lisbon HC with a fight and a lot of penalties, and Lisbon had no right to be within a goal in the dying seconds. But there they were, goalie Kari Ramo skating quickly to the bench in favor of an extra attacker. Coach…
Generals managers have started submitting names for the Season 8 draft project (which would only be adopted if it’s approved in a league-wide vote) and a good list is starting to shape up. Here’s a look at what Commissioner Chuck Massaro did with the names so far: So far, 15 GMs have submitted four names…
