(This is a continuation of a story published earlier today on the league’s best all-around players through the first half of the season. The previous story focused on forwards, while this lists defensemen.) Last year’s league MVP, Alex Pietrangelo, is the best all-around defenseman in the league according to AAR rating. That means the best…
I was thinking about some of the good players who didn’t make the all-star game, remembering that Guybrush Threepwood called Logan Couture the “best all-around LW in the league,” and wondered which players did indeed have the best all-around first half of the season. If you hate math and statistics, stop reading this because you…
HELSINKI – After losing the first four all-star games, the Southern Conference finally beat their northern neighbors and they did so emphatically, victimizing the hometown hero in the process. Trailing 5-3 heading into the third period, Henrik Lundqvist took his turn in the Northern goal crease, but in the relatively warm weather in the first outdoor all-star…
The Belfast Giants have had six players including three defensemen voted to the Season 5 All-Star Game, while Lisbon and Paris will each have 5 representatives playing in Helsinki. The host team placed two players on the Northern Conference team. The game will be played Sunday afternoon outdoors, and the forecast calls for partly cloudy skies and…
The mid-season evolution of attributes occurred in the EURO League and 55 young players had their OV ratings go up 2 points. Zurich had the most 2-point gainers with five (Tomas Tatar, Tyson Barrie, Alexander Weiss, Brian Lashoff and Martin Marincin). The best players who got 2 points better are Ryan O’Reilly of Athens (83…
Dublin 4, Athens 1 – Dublin goalie Brian Elliott stopped 48 shots to win in Athens on Thursday. Elliott, who played for Zurich for 3 seasons and Copenhagen last year, is in the midst of his best season to date. Only Berlin’s Jimmy Howard has a better save percentage than the 91.6 average Elliott has…
St. Petersburg 3, Moscow 0 – Antti Niemi was the difference in an evenly played game between the league’s two Russian teams Wednesday. The Finnish netminder shut out Moscow, making 33 saves along the way. It was his first shutout of the season and fourth in a Red Star uniform. He recorded 8 more shutouts…
Jake Gardiner of the London Dons has become the second player suspended by the league for deliberately injuring another player. The 25-year-old Minnesota native has never had as many as 30 minutes in penalties in any one EURO League season, and this year, he had no minutes at all until he took his first penalty…
Helsinki 5, Gothenberg 0 – Finns and Swedes have a slight disrespect for each other and on Tuesday, the Finns got the last – or at least most recent – laugh. A 5-0 shutout win punctuated by 32 hits by the Jokerit had a few Devils … umm, hot. Dan Girardi seemed to care more about…
Stockholm 5, Minsk 3 – Stockholm’s win against Minsk Monday was a good sign for their fans, coach and General Manager Michael Sauer. Two games earlier, in a win over rough and tumble Helsinki, veteran Pavel Datsyuk had to leave the game halfway through the third period, limping off in a lot of pain. It…
