Edinburgh 3, Geneva 2 – A close game in Geneva went to the visitors, who were just a little bit better. Edinburgh had 29 shots on goal to Geneva’s 23 and they were able to hold onto the 3-0 lead they had when Carl Soderberg sniped his 6th of the season very early in the second…
A rash of suspensions in the EURO League this week has turned a suspicious eye toward Sepp Blatter, the league’s director of player safety and discipline. On Tuesday, two players drew suspensions: Roman Horak, Athens, 2 games for a slash to Prague defenseman Robin Grossman’s ankle Justin Faulk, Belfast, 1 game for an elbow that…
Zurich 3, Bern 2 – The first period was a deflating one for the Bears and they never really recovered against their fellow Swiss. Bern came out strong in the beginning, outshooting the Lions 13-5 in the first period while Zurich seemed to be busy digging themselves a hole to climb out of. While killing…
St. Petersburg 1, London 0 – Halfway through a quiet and frankly, flat first period, Danis Zaripov took a Devante Smith-Pelly pass from the side boards and snapped a shot toward the London net … and it snuck past goalie Martin Jones and crossed the line. Not a highlight reel goal by any stretch of the…
Sepp Blatter has two more player suspensions to announce. On Friday, 23-year-old Stefan Ulmer, an Austrian playing for the Smurfs, received a match penalty for spearing at the same time Bern’s Olli Malmivaara sustained a hernia injury. We’ll let you connect the dots and draw your own picture of what happened on the play. Berlin…
Dublin 7, Helsinki 3 – It was a really good day for Matthew Carle, Milan Michalek and their Dublin teammates and a really bad day for Henrik Lundquist. The Swedish goalie playing for the Jokerit yielded 7 goals, two of them by Michalek that came 25 seconds apart. Carle channeled his inner Paul Coffey and tallied…
Berlin 3, Athens 1 – Something highly unusual happened in the first 2 minutes of the game in Athens Wednesday. Logan Couture scored 1:17 into the game to put the visiting Smurfs in front 1-0. Couture scoring a goal isn’t the unusual part; he scored later in the game as well and is currently third…
Gothenburg 2, Moscow 0 – Frolunda was better than Spartak in just about every area, handing Moscow their second shutout of the week and third of the season. Pekka Rinne was perfect in goal, the penalty killers were perfect during 7 Moscow powerplays, and Frolunda outshot Spartak 32-23 in the game and 12-6 in the…
Edinburgh 7, London 4 – It was mostly offense Monday in Britain, where the Capitals scored three quick goals in the first period and three quick goals in the third period to outdistance themselves from the Dons. Defensemen Andy Sertich and Adam Larsson did well for Edinburgh, each scoring a third period goal and getting an…
Friday’s games Minsk 5, Dublin 3 – Five different Hussars scored goals, but one Minsk player had an assist on every one of those goals. Nicklas Backstrom, who now leads the league in scoring, goals and assists, added 5 assists to his total. Backstrom was drafted in the third round of the initial draft. GM Igor…
