Recap of Thursday’s games Oslo 3, Copenhagen 2 – Fredrik Norrena kicked, poked, slid, dropped and flopped his way to a thrilling win for the Oslo Outlaws on Thursday in Copenhangen against a Trident team that fired 44 shots at him. Mark Fayne, Calvin De Haan and Max Talbot blocked 7 more Copenhagen shots in…
Recap of Tuesday and Wednesday games Bern 3, Belfast 1 – A Pascal Dupuis goal, his 8th, late in the first period put the Bears ahead of the Giants and they built the lead on Tobias Enstrom’s 9th goal with 2:13 to play in the game. Belfast, who challenged for first overall earlier in the…
Recap of Monday games Minsk 5, Helsinki 1 – The Minsk Hussars are for real. Their 5-1 win over Helsinki Monday was maybe even a little more lopsided than the score indicated. Minsk, playing at home before a crowd of 16,673, outshot their Finnish visitors 49-12, led 3-0 after a period and 5-0 after two.…
Recap of Sunday’s games Edinburgh 6, Helsinki 5 – The Edinburgh Capitals were able to overcome Nerius Alisauskas and that was saying a lot … on Sunday, at least. The Helsinki defense who had scored 3 goals this season entering the game, scored a hat trick, including two lasers in the third period that sent…
Recap of Tuesday games: Munich 5, Athens 4 – Munich coach Craig Berube took Robert Tristan out of goal for the first time in six games – including the night before – and the move paid off. Cory Schneider, who was acquired from Belfast in a trade, started to get back in the coach’s good…
Recap of Monday’s games: Paris 6, Prague 1 – Clarke MacArthur and Corey Perry scored two goals each as the Paris Rouges Eiffels kept up with the other teams at the top of the standings. Paris outshot Prague 39-23 and led 5-0 before Ryan Nugent-Hopkins finally scored in the third to bust up Tuukka Rask’s…
Recap of Sunday’s games: Trade: Zach Bogosian has been traded to Stockholm for two defensemen of similar experience. Bogosian, a reliable part of the Dons team for 3 and a half seasons, is on target for a fourth season of producing at least 30 points and 200 hits. In Sweden, he will bring toughness and…
Recap of Saturday games London 6, Oslo 2 – Taylor Hall had a memorable game for the Dons Saturday, torching Oslo goalie Semyon Varlamov for 4 power play goals. His first goal broke a 2-2 tie early in the second period and his other 3 goals game in a 5:18 span of the third period.…
Recap of Thursday games Stockholm 4, St. Petersburg 3 – It was a disappointing evening in St. Petersburg. Not only did the home team fail to come back and tie the ever-improving Eagles, they also lost a player to injury. Mats Zuccarello Aasen was declared out of the lineup with a leg injury. The young…
Recap of Wednesday games Gothenburg 5, Munich 2 – The Dire Wolf fought hard to tie the game 2-2 in the second period, but they seemed to deflate a bit when Gothenburg’s Mikael Backlund and John Carlson scored 44 second apart later in the period. For Carlson, it was his second of the game and…
