Zurich comeback among playoff highlights

Six of the eight EURO League playoff series are tied at 2-2 going into tonight’s Northern Conference battles. In the Southern Conference, Paris has swept Milan out with four straight wins. Here’s a look at where things stand today. Paris wins series against Milan, 4-0 Antti Niemi looked too tired to keep the Paris Rouges…

Anxious times in playoff series

Northern Conference Heading into Game 4 of the Northern Conference playoffs, there are some anxious nerves in the dressing rooms, with a couple of potential upsets brewing. The league’s best team, the Copenhagen Tridents, find themselves trailing 2 games to 1, with another game on foreign soil set for today at 5:30. Vincent Lecavalier has…

Good news and bad news for Munich

Munich 2, Bern 0 Munich leads series 1-0 The good news in Bavaria today is that the beloved Fox, who tied for the top spot in the Southern Conference of the EURO League, won the playoff opener in convincing fashion Thursday by shutting out Bern 2-0. The bad news is that they lost Patrik Elias,…

Penalties hurt Edinburgh in series opener

The playoffs opened Wednesday with three of the four favored teams jumping out to 1-0 leads in their series. Dublin 6, Edinburgh 3 Dublin leads series 1-0 The Scots spent entirely too much time in the penalty box, giving one of the league’s best offenses more ice time and more space. Not a recipe for…

Zurich most improved so far

The moral of this story is “don’t even try to make sense of it.” The Zurich Lions, under GM Dennis Sullo, have moved up in the overall standings more than any other team has since the end of the first season.  They finished 22nd overall in 2012-13 and are currently sixth overall, a jump of…

For any non-English speaking GMs ….

Может быть, мы могли бы использовать Google Translate лучше общаться.   Maybe we could use this space to communicate better. You paste something in a response, and I will go to Google Translate and use it to continue the talk. The WSH website doesn’t recognize Russian letters.

Staal-Star game: North wins again

Eric Staal scored two goals and added two assists Sunday to be named the MVP of the All-Star game. The Northern Conference beat the South, 8-4, a more dominant performance than the North’s one-goal win last season. The MVP honor brought Staal a new Porsche 911 Carrera, but it also brought a healthy dose of…

Recent Highlights: A tough week for London

Thursday’s Games Bern 5, Stockholm 2  – Bern stormed through Stockholm Thursday, looking a lot like the Bears of a year ago. They outshot the home team 43-21 getting 3 points from Jason Spezza and 2 each from Radim Vrbata and Andy McDonald. Cam Ward made 38 saves for Stockholm. Minsk 5, Paris 3 – …

Kelly’s 4 assists help Devils beat Munich

Gothenburg 6, Munich 3 – The Gothenburg Devils are young, skillful, full of hockey sense … perhaps a bit on the smallish side …  and they are currently at the top of the Kharlamov Division. A season ago, the Devils finished 14th in the league and lost a first-round playoff series in 7 games to…