Cam Ward spent Friday in a hotel near Edinburgh listening to local media rave about the shutout Ilya Bryzgalov posted against Stockholm the night before. On Saturday, in his best Brooklyn accent, he said “Yeah, I got your shutout right here.” Ward slammed the door shut on the Capitals to lead the Spartans to a…
The two Swiss teams in the playoffs each won and took a 3 games to none lead in their series on Friday. In the case of Bern, the win was shocking, given the fact that Madrid attacked like ferocious bulls, pouring 59 shots on the Bear net and goalie Mike Smith. The contest had to…
Dublin collapsed in the third period, allowing Oslo to score five times to take the game and the lead in the series. Danny Briere’s second of period and the game turned out to be the most important Oslo goal ever thus far. It swung the pendulum the Devils’ way to the point they are up…
Three of the four playoff series played Wednesday went to 2-0, while one was evened at a game a piece. All across Slovakia tonight, young children are afraid to go to sleep because of the big mean monster who wears a Prague Sparta sweater with a horrible number 15 on his back and sleeves. Ryan…
The Oslo Devils poured it on Tuesday in front of the home fans to tie their first-round playoff series with Dublin. Daniel Sedin put the Devils in front twice – once in the first period and once in the second – but Dublin was able to answer both goals on shots from defensemen Zbynek Michaek…
Southern Conference powers Geneva and Bern steamrolled their opponents on Monday to set tones in their first playoff series, while Prague did the same to Bratislava. But in the conference’s other game, Milan stunned Munich in Germany as Steve Ott’s overtime goal ended a wild shootout that featured 54 shots by each team. The triple…
Fans attending the first-ever EURO playoff game in Copenhagen Sunday were hoping Swiss-born goalie Jonas Hiller would be able to get the job done in net while Roberto Luongo nurses a finger injury he sustained in the final game of the regular season. But it was apparent by the end of the first period, Hiller…
In the midst of the Helsinki Jokerit’s fight to retain the eighth and final playoff spot in the Northern Conference, they acquired a bit more reinforcement by plucking Ryan White off the waiver wire this week. The 23-year-old center was waived by Minsk and comes to Helsinki with OK numbers for someone who has seen…
Tonight’s game in Edinburgh was as pivotal a game as there has been in the EURO thus far. It pitted two teams that are fighting tooth-and-nail for the final playoff spot in the Northern Conference. The lead-up Helsinki traveled to Scotland on Tuesday with a 2-point lead over the Capitals for that coveted eighth-place spot.…
The Bern Bears and the Geneva Generals, two Swiss rivals, have become the first EURO League teams to clinch playoff berths. With less than 20 games remaining in each team’s regular season schedule. Bern has 97 points, which is 41 more than Paris, the ninth-place team in the Southern Conference. Geneva is a point behind…
