The Copenhagen Tridents battled in hostile territory, scored two early goals and won the contest to tie the Northern Conference finals series at 3-3. On Sunday in Copenhagen, a deciding game will be played. On Friday, defenseman Alex Goligoski blasted a loose puck from the high slot past Tim Thomas, and Jamie Langenbrunner followed with…
Geneva scored four goals in a 7:30 span of the second period to erase a 2-goal deficit and emerge from Game 5 of the Southern Conference finals with a 6-4 win. Munich led 4-2 after Steve Downie and Toni Lydman scored goals in the second period, but then the Generals took over. Chris Kunitz, Marian…
The Tridents looked solid in defeating Dublin 6-4 on Wednesday, making the Irish fans nervous about getting that one more win. The Northern Conference finals now stands at 3-2 in favor of Dublin with the next game to come on Friday in Ireland. In this game, it was typically tight through the first period and…
Milan Hejduk scored a little more than 4 minutes into sudden death overtime to give Munich a 3-2 win over Geneva on Tuesday. The win tied the Southern Conference finals at 2 games a piece. Hejduk’s winning goal – with assists to Matt Cooke and Joe Thornton – came on the powerplay with Justin Williams…
The Dublin Fighting Irish, who finished the regular season in the middle of the pack and as the fifth seed in the Northern Conference, are now a game away from making it to the EURO Cup Finals. The Irish were considered underdogs in each of their three playoff series to date, and have previously ousted…
Joe Thornton led the Munich Fox to a 3-2 win at home Sunday, handing the Geneva Generals their first loss of the playoffs. Thornton had a goal and 2 assists and won 16 of 21 faceoffs, mainly against the line of Mike Fisher, Teemu Selanne and Ryan Malone. Thornton and his linemates – Patrik Elias…
All-star defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk helped his team by blocking 5 shots on Saturday, but he also hurt the Copenhagen Tridents by taking four penalties. His third trip to the box proved to be the most costly as Jaromir Jagr banged home a Nikita Nikitin rebound to give the Dublin Fighting Irish their third lead of…
Even after nearly six periods of hockey that included 10 hits and 6 shots on goal, Nicklas Lidstrom’s 41-year-old body still had enough juice for one more big, important shot. Lidstrom’s overtime slapshot goal ended the Game 2 marathon between his Geneva Generals and the Munich Fox on Friday to give Geneva a 2-0 in…
Dublin erased a 2-0 deficit and were able to bottle up Copenhagen after an Evander Kane goal early in the third period put the Irish ahead to stay. The Tridents scored two first period goals – one by Dany Heatley (6th of the playoffs) and the other by Stephen Weiss (5th) – on Tim Thomas,…
The Geneva Generals came out strong and held on to win their ninth playoff game in nine tries. Outshooting Munich 15-4 in the first period and 15-7 in the second, Geneva held a 3-0 advantage after two on goals by Chris Kunitz, Michael Del Zotto and Patrick Marleau. But halfway through the third period, the…
