Recap of Tuesday games Frankfurt 4, Athens 2 – A bad spell for the league’s top teams continued Tuesday as the Frankfurt Inferno toppled the Greeks in Athens, thanks primarily to a strong third period. With the score 2-1 in favor of Athens, Alex Steen scored a shorthanded goal to tie it and then his…
London 4, Belfast 1 – The Dons scored a 4-1 win in hostile territory by getting great goaltending and making the most of the their chances. Marc-Andre Fleury saved all but one of the Giants’ 43 shots and Jeff Skinner and Taylor Hall had 3 points apiece. Zach Bogosian wasn’t named among the game’s three…
Recap of Sunday’s games Prague 3, Bratislava 2 – The Siamese Cats won the latest battle of teams from the former country of Czechoslovakia with Ryan Nugent-Hopkins coming away as the hero. In the second period, Bratislava led the game 2-1, but Nugent-Hopkins scored twice in a little more than 8 minutes to tie the…
Recap of Saturday’s games Madrid 5, Milan 3 – Alex Tanguay of Madrid scored a powerplay goal to break a 2-2 tie early in the second period and his teammates added two more goals late in the period to allow the Royals to breakaway from Milan. R.J. Umberger assisted on all three second-period goals. By…
Recap of Friday’s games Belfast 6, Athens 5 – The home team came out on top in a well-played game between two of the league’s best teams. Shots and powerplay chances were just about even, but Athens seemed to wither away at the end of regulation time. They were outshot 5-0 in overtime and outscored…
Recap of Thursday games Zurich 7, Prague 6 – The Zurich Lions bounced back from a disappointing loss on Wednesday to win a wild game in Prague. The game had to be decided in a shootout that was capped by Ilya Kovalchuk, who ripped a wrist shot through Niko Hovinen and into the Prague net.…
Wednesday recap of games Edinburgh 5, Copenhagen 3 – A nice third period pushed Edinburgh past Copenhagen in front of almost 15,000 Scottish fans. Derek Stepan scored twice in the period, including the game-winner on the power play. All-stars Olivier Roland and Jamie Benn had 3 points apiece. London 5, Zurich 4 – Two late…
North 11, South 6 PARIS – The Northern Conference continued its dominance of the EURO League all-star game by beating the Southern Conference by 5 goals. The North has won all four all-star games so far. Jaroslav Halak of Moscow got the winners off to a great start by shutting out the Southern stars in…
Five Athens Greeks were voted onto this week’s all-star game by league general managers. No other club had as many voted in. All three players on Frankfurt’s top forward line were the top vote-getters in the Southern Conference and will star the game together. Here are the rosters, in order of votes received: Northern Conference Goalies:…
Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner, here are my votes. Position:Goalies Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…
