In a Saturday game against the Southern Conference’s top team, Bratislava had just taken a 2-1 lead late in the second when Eagle veteran Troy Brouwer made a move that will cost him a league suspension. After a battle against the boards just inside the Bratislava blueline, Brouwer and Josef Vasicek stopped playing and faced…
Athens 3, Berlin 2 – The first half of Thursday’s game in Athens belonged to Berlin, but the rest of the game – including the final score – was all Greek. Alex Edler and Logan Couture scored in the second period to give the Smurfs a 2-0 lead, but Athens roared back, outshooting Berlin handily…
London 6, Edinburgh 2 – Taylor Hall simply had enough of this losing stuff. The London Dons had lost 6 straight games heading into Wednesday’s game in Edinburgh. And then Edinburgh’s Adam Larsson scored to put London down by a goal in the middle of the first period. Nearly 10 minutes later, Hall started his heroic performance to break…
Helsinki 4, Bratislava 3 – Playing in their first-ever outdoor game – the Season 6 Klassikko Talvi in Helsinki – the Bratislava Eagles seemed a little awed by the whole thing. Temperatures were slightly below freezing for the game, with partly cloudy skies and a gentle breeze hitting the players as they sat on their respective benches. “That’s when…
Moscow 4, Belfast 2 – Usually, when James Neal scores a goal, good things happen for the defending champion Belfast Giants. On Monday, however, Neal put his team up by a goal about midway through the game and that tally seemed to poke the Russian bear. Thirty seconds after Neal’s goal, Spartak worked their way…
Friday games Stockholm 3, Gothenburg 0 – The Eagles dominated at home, out-shooting Gothenburg 43-16 and shutting out Frolunda. Gothenburg goalie Anders Lindback, who ended up making 40 saves, kept his team in the game by holding off Stockholm’s shooters until Derick Brassard stole the puck from Dan Girardi right in front of the net and slammed…
Helsinki 5, Copenhagen 1 – Steve Downie is Helsinki’s leading goal scorer. What? Yes, it’s true and he added two goals to his total Thursday when the Jokerit invaded Copenhagen and dismantled the Tridents. Downie, know more for making people really mad at him, now has 13 goals, which equals the total that teammates Thomas…
Minsk 5, London 4 – In a fast and furious game featuring two Northern Conference heavyweights, one team did well in the first half of the game, the other did well in the second half, and Colin Wilson’s 6th goal of the season was the difference. The third-line left wing, took a pass from center…
Edinburgh 1, Gothenberg 0 – Jakub Kovar stopped all 30 Gothenburg shots, Fedor Tyutin blocked four more, and the fourth line of Alex Killorn, Alexnder Kerfoot and Carl Soderberg combined on the game’s only goal as Edinburgh won in Sweden. It was the 22-year-old Kovar’s first shutout in the league, and the Caps’ second shutout…
Bratislava 1, Geneva 0 – If the season had ended Monday, Frederik Andersen of Geneva and Corey Crawford of Bratislava would both be carrying around trophies today – Andersen for having the league’s best save percentage (93.3 percent) and Crawford for lowest goals against average (1.91 per game). One would think a game involving those…
