A daring rescue engineered by a Slovakian beauty pageant winner has saved the life of a kidnapped dog that was thought to have been killed, according to a press release issued Friday by the Danish State Security Office. Authorities said the pug dog Gustl, owned by Slovenian forward Anze Kopitar, had been held by Russian…
Copenhagen 2, Moscow 1 – Copenhagen wins series 4-0 Brian Elliott has pulled off one of the most amazing goalie performances in EURO history, limiting the defending champion Moscow Spartak to just 1 goal per game and allowing his Trident teammates to skate away with a series sweep. On Thursday, Elliott made 36 saves and…
The home teams all won their Game 3s in the EURO Playoffs, leaving defending champion Moscow and Berlin on the brink of elimination. Belfast and Paris saw their 2-0 leads shrink to 2-1 leads. Minsk 3, Belfast 2 – Belfast leads series 2-1 Milan Lucic, who has been quiet for most of the playoffs, came…
Athens 6, Berlin 1 – Athens leads series 2-0 The Athens Greeks seem to be in the process of mashing the Smurfs into Smurfberry juice. For the second straight game on Berlin ice, the Greeks laid a 6-1 beatdown on Berlin. Maybe the Frankfurt series took too much out of the Smurfs, but Jimmy Howard has not been…
Copenhagen 3, Moscow 1 – Copenhagen leads series 2-0 The loss of Dustin Brown could be part of the reason Moscow is trailing Copenhagen after losing twice on home ice. The good play of several Tridents is another reason. Shea Weber has scored two big goals in the two games from the point position, Nathan…
Rose seems determined to make up for her 2-6 record of first-round predictions. She spent the day reading newspapers and rifling through her box of holiday cards. Then she pulled out a crystal ball. An actual crystal ball. Where did she come from? Northern Conference Moscow (No.1 seed, defeated Stockholm 4-0) vs. Copenhagen (No. 6…
The Smurfs looked dominant in winning a series that looked so close before Game 7 started. On Tuesday, Berlin outshot Frankfurt 40-16 and they seemed to clamp down harder on the Inferno’s forwards as the game went on. The combination of Ryan Callahan and Loui Eriksson worked well for Berlin and each player scored and…
Copenhagen 4, Edinburgh 3 – Copenhagen wins series 4-3 It was a glorious upset win for Copenhagen and a brutal disappointment for Edinburgh. Thanks to injured Stephen Weiss, playing with what is believed to be strained knee tendons and/or ligaments, the Tridents are through to the second round of the EURO playoffs. The whole series…
UPDATE: The guide has been sent to your e-mail account. The commissioner went off the deep end long ago, and while he was down there, he produced the Season 5 EURO League Draft Guide. Now teams out of the playoffs can fantasize about draft day while the league heavyweights slug it out for the Season…
Frankfurt 2, Berlin 2 – Series tied 3-3 The Berlin Smurfs might be too nervous to get angry after the Frankfurt Inferno burned them on Sunday to force a Game 7 in their series. The home team has won each game of the series so far and Berlin will have home ice advantage on Tuesday…
