For the first weeks of the first EURO Hockey League season, Jason Spezza and his Bern Bear teammates seemed to be dominating the stats sheets. Two-thirds of the way into the season, however, the landscape looks different. Among the top 32 scorers in the league, 18 teams are represented. Prague has four skaters in the…
Helsinki 4, Madrid 2 With Alex Tanguay out of commission for three weeks or more with a back injury, the Madrid Royals had trouble generating enough offense in Helsinki on Wednesday. Jordan Staal scored two goals to pull them into a 2-2 tie with the Jokerit, but Dainus Zubrus came up with a big third-period…
GMs, sorry about not keeping up with the blog on a daily basis. I have a few things going on now – mainly a college hockey season that I help with as assistant coach – that I didn’t have going on earlier in the year. Here’s a reminder that the trade deadline is approaching. The…
The Guerriero made a long journey from Milan to Minsk, (Rochelle, Rochelle), and left with a point. They would have had two points if not for third period goals by Minsk defensemen Nicklas Grossman and Nick Leddy, which led to overtime and a shootout that Patrik Hornquist and Niclas Backstrom won for the Hussars. Minsk…
The Edinburgh Capitals’ agenda for Sunday and Monday looked daunting: Play host to the third best team in the league, then hop on a plane and travel to St. Petersburg to tangle with the league-leading Lynx. How many would have bet the Caps would be 4 points richer by Monday night? No one, probably, but…
The Geneva Generals won twice in the last three days and have solidified themselves as the third best team in the EURO thus far. For a long while, Bern was the class of the league, only to passed by hard skating St. Petersburg squad. Then there was the rest of the league. But Geneva is…
Belfast 5, Berlin 3 Rick Nash scored twice in the first period and Cory Schneider stayed busy all game, making 49 stops en route to a win over the tired Berlin Smurfs and goalie Mika Kiprusoff. The Smurfs were one of 6 teams in action Tuesday that played the night before. Berlin hosted Munich in…
Copenhagen 4, London 0 Roberto Luongo was on his game Monday shutting out the Knights. Lou stopped close-in shots like some of the 12 Tyler Bozak and Jeff Skinner took, and long shots like the 5 that Derek Morris fired at him, and everything in between. In all, Luongo stopped 31 London shots. It was…
Milan 7, Minsk 2 Milan treated its fans to one of its best games of the season on Sunday, hammering Minsk 7-2, scoring three times in the first period and three more times in the second period. Leading the way was Dustin Brown, who had accounted for 2 goals and an assist before the game…
Minsk 5, Madrid 2 Sergei Kostitsyn went wild for 5 points on Saturday to lead Minsk to a 5-2 victory over Madrid. He scored twice in the game and now has 11 this season. The Hussars played well in all aspects of the game, with Carey Price making 33 saves and the powerplay going 3…
