It was an eventful Friday night in Europe. That screaming you heard was Minsk fans when Nicklas Backstrom went down with a severe injury that will keep him out of the first round of the playoffs. And what sounded like an echo from the east was actually Moscow fans screaming when Anze Kopitar was hurt…
Game 1 highlights and what to look for on Saturday Outfoxed themselves – Munich started backup goalie Robert Kristan to open the series against Bratislava and while the young Slovenian didn’t perform poorly, his teammates did. It could be that when they were told Kristan was starting, the message they got was that this was going…
A quick report on what happened in Game 1 and what to look for in Game 2 Silfverberg strikes gold – Dublin and St. Petersburg got involved in a real track meet, with the Fighting Irish outshooting the Red Stars 42-34 and outscoring them by one. Jakub Silfverberg scored two powerplay goals, including the one…
Rose in Accounting and I were talking in the office the other day. I listened to her boring story about her niece’s wedding plans and then she didn’t seem to listen to my story about my son’s graduation. Then the topic of the upcoming playoffs came up and we seemed to have pretty divergent views.…
The Season 3 playoff matchups are almost set in stone, but not quite. Four games left on the schedule could affect first-round matchups. On Friday, Gothenburg will host Moscow and Geneva will host Bern for the back end of their home-and-home series. If Bern wins, they will play Berlin in the first round; if they…
With just a handful of regular season games remaining in the third season of EURO League, a torrid playoff race in the Northern Conference is overshadowing some other good stories. Here’s what you have to squint to see in the glare of the four-team race for the North’s final playoff spot: SPAIN GAINS – The…
Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner, here are my votes. Position: Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1pt) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd…
Some highlights from games played Wednesday: Oslo 5, Edinburgh 4 Tyler Kennedy, who came into the game with 1 goal for Oslo, scored four times, including the game-tying goal in the third period and the winner in overtime. He took 5 shots and scored in all 4 periods. He’s not sure what happened on that…
Rose, in the league office in Vienna, took some time out from shopping online this morning to jot down a few observations from games played Tuesday in the EURO League: Jack Johnson, Helsinki’s 26-year-old defenseman, was named the second star of the game that the Jokerit lost 5-4 to Zurich. She said she and the…
A few quick observations about life in the EURO league as you scan your organizational roster for Johanssons. Bern Notice – Johan Franzen and Andy McDonald scored 3 points each Monday to lead Bern over Edinburgh and today both are out of the lineup with injuries and illness. Pascal Dupuis is the only member of…
