The Dublin Fighting Irish tried to set a turbulent tone in Game 1 of the conference finals series, but wound up being rocked by the Tridents 6-1. Dublin took 11 penalties to Copenhagen’s zero. By the end of the first period, Dublin had dug themselves a big hole from which they could never climb out.…
The Munich Fox slammed the door on the Bern Bears to advance to the Southern Conference finals in Geneva. The Fox were the underdogs against Bern, and trailed 2-0 in the first period on Saturday, but managed to score three unanswered goals on Mike Smith. Meanwhile, Munich’s Jonathan Quick was perfect over the last 40…
With a capacity crowd of 15,450 chanting and singing Irishmen cheering them on, Dublin beat powerful St. Petersburg by a goal Friday to win the playoff series. The Fighting Irish narrowly knocked off Oslo in seven games in round one, and now St. Petersburg in six games. Next up is a little rest and then…
The game and series were tied when the third period began in Bern on Thursday and then the Brooks Laich hero tour started. Until then, Bern seemed to have had the better of play and were somehow not in the lead. Eventually, they outshot Munich 44-27 and had a 10-3 advantage in powerplays. But on…
You really can’t blame Stockholm’s Cam Ward for the series-ending loss in Denmark Wednesday. The guy was absolutely pelted with Trident shots and he stopped the first 50 that came his way. The, 8 minutes into sudden death overtime, Copenhagen’s Andrew Ladd suddenly killed the Spartans’ season. After taking a Stephen Weiss pass in the…
Munich blitzed Bern for a 5-1 win Tuesday to even their series at 2 games each. The winner will go on to play Geneva, who swept Bratislava in four straight games. Bern goalie Mike Smith wasn’t as sharp as Jonathan Quick Tuesday and Matt Cooke and Brooks Laich each scored two for the Foxes. Bern…
Tim Thomas has stolen at least two games from the St. Petersburg Lynx and now has them one game from elimination. Petrograd will have to win three straight against Thomas and the Dublin Fighting Irish in order to advance to the conference finals to face the winner of the other Northern Conference series. Chances are…
The Munich Fox had the better of play throughout the game and outshot Bern 30-18 but lost 5-2. The box score looked a lot like the Bern box scores we were seeing early in the season. Ray Whitney opened the scoring, Jason Spezza had a pair of goals and Mike Smith was busy making 28…
Goalie Tim Thomas kept the Dublin Fighting Irish in the game long enough for the line of Olli Jokinen, Milan Michalek and Thomas Fleischmann to come up with some heroics and give the underdogs a 2-1 series lead. After St. Petersburg quieted the Dublin crowd with two first-period goals – Willie Mitchell and David Legwand…
Dion Phaneuf broke a 1-1 tie in the second and Munich marched on to a convincing win in Bern to even their playoff series on Friday. Despite a 7-3 advantage in powerplay chances, the Bears couldn’t catch the Foxes after Phaneuf’s long slapper beat Mike Smith with 15:55 to go in the second period. Josh…
