London 5, Zurich 2 – After Brandon Saad put London up 2-1, Zurich came onto the ice for the third period trying to tie the contest. But London forwards Devin Setoguchi and Jeff Skinner sabotaged that plan with two goals 1 minute and 22 seconds apart. London’s points were divvied up between 12 different players.…

Edinburgh 6, Bratislava 2 – Bratislava took a lot of penalties and paid for it as Edinburgh scored 3 powerplay goals in 9 chances. Martin Thornberg scored the first two PP goals and when Jamie Benn followed those up with his 9th goal 11 minutes into the second period, it became 3-0 Capitals. Brandon Dubinsky was the…

Bratislava 4, Athens 1 – Bratislava had to play their best hockey in order to get points from a tough three-game stretch against three EURO powerhouses, and they came through with flying colors. On Wednesday of last week, the Eagles got a point against Paris, losing 3-2 in a shootout, and they were then able to beat…

Geneva 3, Gothenburg 2 (shootout) – Geneva veteran Nick Foligno has been extra cantankerous this week. On Tuesday, he got a roughing penalty and then got into a fight in St. Petersburg, and on Thursday, in front of the home crowd, he got into another tussle, this time with Devil tough guy Frazier McLaren. Those…

Lisbon 6, Athens 1 – With an ailing John Tavares limited to 5 minutes of ice time, Lisbon HC put a hurting on Athens in Portugal. With centers Joe Thornton and Alexei Kalyuzhny available to fill in for Tavares, Lisbon steamrolled the Greeks, scoring 4 times in the second period. Tavares actually scored to stake the…

St. Petersburg 4, Geneva 3 (shootout) – Three out of the five games played Tuesday went to a shootout, and in all three shootouts, the team with the most shots in regulation time came out on top. In St. Petersburg, Dmitri Kalinin and rookie Jan Kovar provided the sparks near the end of the game…

Oslo 7, Paris 4 – Alex Pietrangelo is picking up right where he left off after winning Player of the Year honors in the EURO League’s Season 4. The Paris Rouge Eiffels star scored points at just under one per game last year (81 points in 82 games) and this year he has 16 points…

Madrid 4, Prague 3 – Andrej Meszaros had to be exhausted and dehydrated Thursday night after the work he put in in Madrid’s win over Prague. The 30-year-old Slovakian assisted on the opening goal and scored the game-tying goal in the second period. He also had 4 hits, 2 blocked shots and ended up working 35 minutes.…

Wednesday’s games Dublin 4, Minsk 3 (shootout) – The Fighting Irish were outshot 45-22 in Minsk, but they came away with the 2 points after a four-round shootout. In a battle of backup goalies, it was Jonathan Bernier out-dueling Russian Anton Khudobin. Bernier made 42 saves and stopped Gustav Nyquist on the final shot of…