From Thursday’s games: Brent Seabrook. Bern, has played 2 great games so far. If the season ends Sunday, he will be MVP. He led the Bears over Stockholm 4-2 with 3 assists, 4 hits and 2 blocked shots. Bern’s fourth line of Drew Miller, Lance Bouma and Steve Bernier was plus 2 but played only…
3 Stand-outs Brent Seabrook, Bern, scored a goal, had 2 assists, 5 hits and was +3 in a 5-3 win in Dublin. Cam Ward, Athens, stopped 39 Edinburgh shots in a 2-0 win. Kari Lehtonen, Geneva, stopped 32 Berlin shots in a 3-0 win in Germany Surprises and Stuff A scoreless tie was highly unexpected…
Season 4 begins today (Aug. 19, 2014) with six games. The most interesting might be the offense-minded Zurich Lions playing in Defense City, Finland. Another interesting matchup comes Wednesday when Belfast tries out its new look lineup at home against the President’s Trophy-winning Paris Rouges Eiffels. And the defending champs, Moscow, open in Oslo on…
Twelve players who were waived by their previous clubs are packing and traveling to their new cities today. In addition, veteran free agent Vinny Lecavalier signed a long-term deal with the EURO Cup champion Moscow Spartak. Here the waived players, arranged by their new team: Athens: Richard Bachman (from Helsinki), Bobby Sanguinetti Bratislava: Riley Nash…
Many teams have new coaches this season in the EURO Hockey League: Belfast – Alain Vigneault (replaces Darryl Sutter) Bratislava – Brent Sutter (Bruce Boudreau) Copenhagen – Paul Maurice (Brent Sutter) Dublin – Dave Tippett (Alain Vigneault) Edinburgh – Randy Carlyle (Lindy Ruff) Frankfurt – Peter Laviolette (Todd McLellan) Geneva – Darryl Sutter (Joel Quenneville) Milan…
By a goal, Moscow Spartak are champions of the EURO League. The Russian team won 3-2 against the defending champion Paris Rouges Eiffels Thursday night. Moscow seemed to have won it with superior effort in the second and third periods, when they outshot Paris 10-4 and 14-5. Anze Kopitar’s 9th playoff goal was the eventual…
Ken Kuusk may not crowd Joan D’Arc, Charlemagne or Charles De Gaulle out on the list of biggest heroes in France’s history, but they sure like him a lot right now. Six-and-a-half minutes into overtime, Kuusk took a slapshot that went in past Jaro Halak to give Paris a 4-3 win in Game 6 of the EURO Cup…
Moscow has broken serve, winning 5-4 Tuesday to become the first visiting team to win a game in the EURO Cup Finals series and Spartak is now one win away from the Cup. That big moment could come Thursday in Russia. But Paris faced two elimination games last series against Athens, and they responded with…
As expected, the EURO Cup finals series is tighter than Rose’s waistband. After dropping a pair of games to the defending champions in Paris, Moscow Spartak responded with two wins on home ice. The series is now a best two out of three and the winner will get the third-ever EURO Cup. In Game 3,…
Paris fans hope last round’s near-death experience taught the Rouge Eiffels players a lesson about playing to the end. After winning 5-4 Wednesday on a Josef Vasicek overtime goal, the Eiffels are now up 2-0 in the Finals against Moscow. But they were up 2-0 in the Southern Conference finals against Athens two weeks ago…
