Athens 4, Berlin 3 – Athens wins series 4-0 The Athens Greeks completed their sweep of the Smurfs, but not without a score on Friday. Athens was cruising to a 3-0 win and end of the series when all of a sudden, Berlin struck for 3 quick goals. Loui Ericsson, Nikolai Kulemin and Jiri Tlusty…
Copenhagen 2, Moscow 1 – Copenhagen wins series 4-0 Brian Elliott has pulled off one of the most amazing goalie performances in EURO history, limiting the defending champion Moscow Spartak to just 1 goal per game and allowing his Trident teammates to skate away with a series sweep. On Thursday, Elliott made 36 saves and…
The home teams all won their Game 3s in the EURO Playoffs, leaving defending champion Moscow and Berlin on the brink of elimination. Belfast and Paris saw their 2-0 leads shrink to 2-1 leads. Minsk 3, Belfast 2 – Belfast leads series 2-1 Milan Lucic, who has been quiet for most of the playoffs, came…
Athens 6, Berlin 1 – Athens leads series 2-0 The Athens Greeks seem to be in the process of mashing the Smurfs into Smurfberry juice. For the second straight game on Berlin ice, the Greeks laid a 6-1 beatdown on Berlin. Maybe the Frankfurt series took too much out of the Smurfs, but Jimmy Howard has not been…
Copenhagen 3, Moscow 1 – Copenhagen leads series 2-0 The loss of Dustin Brown could be part of the reason Moscow is trailing Copenhagen after losing twice on home ice. The good play of several Tridents is another reason. Shea Weber has scored two big goals in the two games from the point position, Nathan…
The Smurfs looked dominant in winning a series that looked so close before Game 7 started. On Tuesday, Berlin outshot Frankfurt 40-16 and they seemed to clamp down harder on the Inferno’s forwards as the game went on. The combination of Ryan Callahan and Loui Eriksson worked well for Berlin and each player scored and…
Copenhagen 4, Edinburgh 3 – Copenhagen wins series 4-3 It was a glorious upset win for Copenhagen and a brutal disappointment for Edinburgh. Thanks to injured Stephen Weiss, playing with what is believed to be strained knee tendons and/or ligaments, the Tridents are through to the second round of the EURO playoffs. The whole series…
Frankfurt 2, Berlin 2 – Series tied 3-3 The Berlin Smurfs might be too nervous to get angry after the Frankfurt Inferno burned them on Sunday to force a Game 7 in their series. The home team has won each game of the series so far and Berlin will have home ice advantage on Tuesday…
Heading into Sunday’s Game 6 in Germany, three series are finished in each conference. Monday will feature a Game 7 in the Northern Conference when Edinburgh hosts Copenhagen. From Friday: Zurich 5, Bern 2 – Zurich wins series 4-1 Bern had a 2-0 lead, but the Lions roared back with five straight goals by five different players.…
Minsk 5, Gothenburg 2 – Minsk leads series 3-2 The home team has taken every game of the series and that’s good news in Minsk. The Hussars played a dominant game, outshooting the Devils 38-22 with Nicklas Backstrom and Patrik Berglund leading the charge with 14 shots between the two of them. Minsk scored first,…
