Derek Roy seeing stars for Copenhagen

Copenhagen 7, Oslo 4 Oh sure. The league announces there is going to be an all-star game and Derek Roy goes ballistic, coming up with a five-point, plus 4 performance in 14 minutes of playing time while going 14-6 on faceoffs. We’re surprised Royzie didn’t change his jersey number from “9” to “Vote for Me.”…

Crawford’s first shutout comes against Bern

Athens 1, Bern 0 The best team in the league got more bite than they bargained for Sunday when one of  the league’s cellar dwellers came to Bern for a visit. The Bears found out Corey Crawford was unbeatable on this day after trying 24 times to get a puck past him. It was Crawford’s…

Oslo limps out of Petrograd with 2 points

Oslo 3, St. Petersburg 2 (shootout) The Oslo Devils didn’t let their 4 injuries bother them, nor the fact they gave up 54 shots on goal. And 18,500 screaming St. Petersburg fans? Pshaw! They just asked Jimmy Howard to stand on his head, scored a couple of goals in the first two periods, and won…

Paris fights fatigue to take win from Munich

Paris 4, Munich 3 (shootout) Shut out the night before and trailing 3-1 with a little more than 2 minutes to go, the Paris Rouges Eiffels found something inside them and pulled out 2 points. Kyle Turris scored his 5th of the season on a 2-on-1 with David Perron with 2:14 to play, and then…

Pavelec stops everything Minsk has to offer

Frankfurt 2, Minsk 0 Ondrej Pavelec shut out the Minsk Hussars, making 23 saves, while Steven Stamkos scored his 16th and Bryan Allen his 3rd for Frankfurt. Stamkos had 7 shots on goal, while Allen had 3. The only other player to have more than 2 shots was Jakub Voracek of Minsk, who had 5.…

St. Petersburg scores 2 in third to win

St. Petersburg 2, Copenhagen 1 Two third period goals decided a matchup of two of the league’s best goalies, as Pekka Rinne’s St. Petersburg Lynx beat Robert Luongo’s Copenhagen Tridents. Andrew Ladd put Copenhagen in front with a first period goal that held up until Jeff Petry and Daniel Alfredsson scored for St. Petersburg. Luongo…

Neal scores twice for Edinburgh

Edinburgh 3, Belfast 0 The line of James Neal, Derek Stepan and Jamie Benn connected for two first period goals and Henrik Lundquist all 19 Belfast shots on Thursday. Neal later added his 10th of the season on the powerplay to help his Capitals distance themselves from the Giants.  Chris Campoli had 5 shot blocks…

O’Shie has 5 points in Athens win

Athens 6, Milan 3 T.J. Oshie racked up 5 points on Wednesday as the Greeks won convincingly in Milan. Oshie scored the Greeks’ fourth goal and assisted on 4 other goals, including two by David Backes. The two former St. Louis Blues teammates are by far the top two scorers on the Athens squad this…

Frankfurt’s Pavelec shuts out Belfast

Frankfurt 5, Belfast 0 Claude Giroux scored 2 for the Inferno and Ondrej Pavelec shut out the Giants in front of a crowd of 14,312 German fans.  Giroux now has 10 goals this season. The 2 points in the standings pushed Frankfurt ahead of Athens and into 23rd place, just 2 points behind 4 other…

Henrik Sedin swapped for Jordan Staal, more

Henrik Sedin is packing his bags tonight to move from central Spain to northern Italy. For the second time in four days, the Madrid Royals have made a defense-oriented trade. (To be read in Gary Bettman’s voice) Madrid trades Henrik Sedin to Milan for Jordan Staal, prospect Chris Kreider, Milan’s second round pick next season…