Minsk and Paris were the only lower-seeded teams to advance into the second round of the EURO playoffs. Here’s a brief look at each first-round series. Belfast 4, Stockholm 2 Stockholm didn’t get its act together until they were down 3-0 in the series. Giants sent the Eagles packing with 3 powerplay goals in Game…
Northern Conference Stockholm (77 points) at Belfast (114 points) ROSE: The Eagles will pull the upset thanks to big Zach Bogosian and the right wingers on the team: T.J. Oshie, Blake Wheeler and Brayden Schenn. Bogosian scored 18 goals during the season and it’s not because he was lucky. And while Stockholm’s defensemen scored just…
It seems like a simple question: Who were the best defensive forwards in the EURO League? But it’s difficult to quantify the answer. You can tell just by watching Adam Henrique of Gothenburg play that he really knows his way around the defensive zone, but how do you attach numbers to what Henrique does so…
Will somebody please make sense of the Minsk Hussars? They won the Season 8 Cup, lost Carey Price and Nicklas Backstrom to free agency, plummeted in the standings and were much clsoer to missing the playoffs than defending their crown, but now suddenly … they are on the best run of results in the league.…
With the score 3-0 in favor of Belfast early in the Giants’ final regular season game Friday, Belfast was killing a penalty when Erik Karlsson poked the puck away from Gothenburg’s Adam Henrique and moved it up to captain Claude Giroux along the right boards. Their teammate Gabriel Landeskog sensed and opportunity and took off…
Who has a chance to set league records this season? Already There Lisbon superstar John Tavares has 10 shorthanded goals, which ties him with what Jonathan Toews of Bratislava did in Season 3. One more Tavares shorty and Toews’ name comes off the list. Close London forward Jeff Skinner wants to be more careful with…
With the season winding down, we’ll take a glance at the team and individual races that remain. The playoff race, in bullet form: North Belfast will be the No. 1 seed Three out of the next four team will have home ice advantage in the first round, so one of St. Petersburg, Helsinki, London and…
Brian Elliott was once the goalie who fans in Dublin hoped would pick up where Tim Thomas left off and bring the Irish close to the top of the heap. But he never capitalized on his opportunity to shine and this week, the 34-year-old Elliott passed through waivers and it appears he will play the…
If EURO general managers could go back in time to the Season 5 draft knowing what they know now, the proceedings would have gone a lot differently. For example, Munich GM Chad Legge would not have picked Roland McKeown 13th overall. The defenseman who was drafted into the NHL by the LA Kings, has 10…
Euro League officials might want to ask Berlin General Manager Guybrush Threepwood a question or two. They definitely want to have a word with Vadim Shipachyov, the Smurfs’ second-leading scorer this season. Always on the lookout for the welfare of the league, Sepp Blatter, director of discipline and player safety, took in a game last…
