A quick look at what’s happening in the EURO. Twenty-two games into Season 3 of the EURO League, some teams are where they were expected to be, while a few teams have been major surprises. But one of the big stories so far has been how tightly spaced large groups of teams are. In the…
One goal separated winners from losers in four EURO season openers on Monday night. The tightest game of all was played in Finland, where the hometown Jokerit outshot Geneva 41-31, led 2-0 at one point, but ended up losing in a shootout. Geneva took the two points when Marian Gaborik and Thomas Vanek scored in…
Three teams scored 6 or more goals Sunday as the third Euro League started with several bangs. Seven different Edinburgh players scored goals on London goalie Marc-Andre Fleury in the first 30 minutes, forcing London coach Ken Hitchcock to give Braden Holtby a premature pro debut. Holtby responded by stopping all 13 shots he faced.…
With Copenhagen’s selection of Nick Petan, the EURO League draft is complete and hockey knowledge will now take a back seat to financial wizardry. An even 100 players are Type 3, unrestricted free agents. Some, like 33-year-old Jim Vandermeer and 32-year-old Rick Dipietro, have never played for a EURO team and will probably not get…
There couldn’t have been a more exciting finish to a season. Game 6 of the EURO Cup finals was seconds away from going into overtime when Joffrey Lupul wired a shot through Pekka Rinne to win the second-ever EURO Cup for Paris. There were 4 seconds left on the clock at the time. Les Rouges…
Playing before another packed house in St. Petersburg, the Red Stars refused to die Monday. Falling behind Paris 1-0 early when Corey Perry scored his 11th goal of the playoffs, St. Pete clawed their way back and took a 3-1 lead into the second period. Top line center Brad Richards took an Erik Cole pass…
Paris is sitting pretty, just a win away from hoisting the EURO Cup overhedd, and it was a goal from a fourth-liner that looms as the biggest of the series so far. After losing Game 1 by a 6-2 score, Paris has surged ahead with three wins in a row. In Game 4, Paris used…
The Erik Cole-Brad Richards-Blake Wheeler line skated at its best Thursday to lead the Red Stars to a win in the series opener, but St. Petersburg got help from unlikely sources as well. Youngsters Jonathan Huberdeau and Danis Zaripov chipped in with a combined 8 shots and 2 goals on Tuukka Rask and the Paris…
The race for the second-ever EURO Cup might go from a 4-team field to a 2-horse race very soon. Both St. Petersburg and Paris have stormed their way to 3-0 leads in the conference finals that started Friday. St. Petersburg leads Edinburgh in series, 3-0 This series has been close for the first two periods,…
Edinburgh beats Copenhagen in series, 4-3 A stunning upset has the Edinburgh Capitals playing for the Northern Conference championship. The Caps, who finished the regular season 43-32-7, good enough for fifth in the conference and 12th overall in the EURO, and who were a loss away from elimination twice in the first round against Dublin…
