Bern 3, Milan 2 – Bern should get more players with “berg” in their name. Henrik Zetterberg scored twice to give the Bears a 2-0 lead and Dennis Seidenberg blasted in a shot to break a tie and give Bern a lead they were able to hold onto. Mike Babcock’s guys gave Milan every chance…

Belfast 2, Berlin 1 – The top teams from both conferences clashed Wednesday with Belfast beating Berlin by a goal. The game featured good goaltending and relatively clean play. Only three penalties were called in the game and Berlin capitalized on one of them when Ryan Callahan took a pass from behind the net by Logan Couture…

Jimmy Howard of the Berlin Smurfs is having a great season, in fact one of the best ever by a EURO goalie, and he’s a big reason why the Smurfs lead the Southern Conference with 30 games to play. His 2.20 goals against average is even better than the league record 2.24 average that Jonathan Quick posted for Munich…

Minsk 6, Helsinki 3 – Nicklas Backstrom got the Hussars off to a good start against Helsinki and he and his mates kept the pressure up until the final buzzer. Backstrom scored one of three Minsk powerplay goals and he assisted on 3 other goals. Linemate Milan Lucic scored twice and the Hussars outshot the…

Madrid 5, Bratislava 3 – The Madrid Royals bounced back nicely from a shutout loss to Belfast the night before by beating visiting Bratislava 5-3. The home team was down 3-1 after one period, but scored three unanswered goals and an empty-netter with 4 seconds left. Andrej Meszaros, who grew up in Slovakia just about 1:40…

Helsinki 3, Moscow 2 (shootout) – Eliezer Sherbatov was the only one of 12 players to score in the shootout and his goal decided an extremely close, penalty-filled game between two Kharlamov Division rivals. Shots were 32-31 in favor of Helsinki. Moscow had 11 powerplay opportunities, scoring once, and Helsinki was 2 of 7 in…

Bratislava 4, Prague 1 – Marian Hossa is showing no signs of aging, helping the Eagles to a win in front of the home fans in his native Slovakia Saturday. Hossa scored the game’s first goal and later, while penalty killing with Jonathan Toews, set up his centerman for his first shorthanded goal of the season…

Geneva 3, Paris 2 – The Generals made the most of a few opportunities and got great goaltending from Frederik Andersen to turn away Paris Thursday. The Swiss team took only one penalty and got scored three straight goals in the first and second periods. Sergei Kostitsyn’s 15th of the year was the game winner.…

Dublin 4, London 3 (OT) – One of the hottest teams in the league – the London Dons – were playing a spotless game but were only up 1 when their Ahearne Division rivals Dublin pulled their goalie and got a clutch goal from Ryan Kesler to send the game into overtime. Halfway into the…