Prague 5, Edinburgh 3 Prague’s Bryan Little, fresh off a hat trick against Geneva two nights earlier, collected 4 more points Thursday in Edinburgh. He had a goal and three assists and is the early season league leader in scoring. The line of Little, Zach Parise and Ryan Getzlaf is tough enough to handle at…
Gothenburg 3, Paris 2 It was a real shootout in Paris, with Gothenburg emerging with the win. Only Milan Lucic was able to score int he shootout as he beat Paris goalie Jose Theodore. Martin Brodeur, meanwhile, stoned Evgeni Malkin, David Perron and Corey Perry to cement the win. There were 76 shots on goal…
By Zorba Athens Mounaki The Greeks opened there season on the road and they were in tough against the Stockholm Spartans. But the new faces on the team were undaunted, maybe it was the ignorance of the rookies or the calm confidence of the vets. Or maybe, just maybe this group of players know something…
Prague 5, Geneva 1 They had a very nice ceremony in Geneva to raise the championship banner to the rafters, the fans gave their hockey heroes a standing ovation, and then Prague Sparta knocked the Generals onto their accomplished rumps. Bryan Little did the most damage in the 5-1 win, scoring the season’s first hat…
Moscow 4, London 0 Moscow is off and running in the new season with an impressive performance at home, shutting out the London Dons 4-0. Nine Spartak players got on the scoresheet, with Benoit Pouliot leading everyone with 2 points, both assists. Moscow outshot London by a hefty margin, 39-24 and Jaro Halak stopped all…
There are 229 players out there waiting to find out how much money EURO teams might offer them to play this season. Some of them (sorry, Krystofer Barch) won’t get offers. But others may be viewed as key pieces to team puzzles. All of them may be affected by a collective caution that is wafting…
Pick 69: Drew SHORE was selected by Copenhagen as a future centerman. Shore was born in Denver, lives and plays in Miami and will shove off for Denmark in a year. With the Florida Panthers, he is getting a lot of ice time and is fourth on the team in shots on goal. He has…
Pick 38: Fredrick NORRENA, a 33-year-old goalie, goes to Oslo on a three-year contract to back up American Jimmy Howard. Pick 39: Josef VASICEK, the big LW who can fire the puck, may have to fight for regular shifts if Stockholm resigns two aging veterans: Ryan Smyth and Steve Sullivan. Pick 40: Olexander POBYEDONOSTSEV, a…
Here’s a quick look at who got whom since the last report. Pick 20: Talgat ZHAILAUOV goes from his home country of Kazakhstan to Munich, where he is by far the youngest center and obviously a key building block for the franchise’s future. Short but thick, Zhailauov is said to be a good skater with great…
Prague, with three of the seven picks between numbers 13 and 19, started the barrage with the most recognizable name available in the draft. Nail Yakupov, the Russian sensation who went first overall in the 2012 NHL draft, is now a right winger for the Southern Conference power that finished sixth overall in Season 1.…
