Athens 5, Bratislava 3 – The new-look Athens franchise got off on the right foot by scoring five goals against the man who was their starting goalie the year the league began. Corey Crawford, 33, has appaered in three games this season for Bratislava and has stopped only 78.3 percent of the shots against him. On…

  In Moscow’s last game, Chris Stewart delivered a high hit against the boards on Stockholm defenseman John Klingberg.  The Eagle player went to ice hard and had to be helped off the ice. Now Klinberg is injured and out of Stockholm’s lineup and Stewart has been issued a one-game suspension. “We have to make…

Lisbon 6, Paris 1 – Sacre bleu! Les Rouges Eiffels have lost two home games in a row. That basically never happens. Lisbon HC rolled over Paris after getting an early tally from Steven Stamkos and then two more goals before the end of period one. Paris was their own worst enemy in this one,…

Munich 4, Belfast 3 – It took nine games, but Daniel and Henrik Sedin finally combined for a Munich goal and that seemed to wake up the slumping Dire Wolf and catapult the team to a win over visiting Belfast. Munich got two big goals in the second period from Nikita Zadorov and Talgat Zhailauov…

Madrid 4, Paris 3 – It’s not easy to win a game in Paris if you’re the visitors, but the Royals left with 2 points Wednesday. After Patrik Berglund tied the game 3-3 in the second period, the unlikely hero for Madrid was quiet Swiss rookie Reto Suri, who beat Phillipp Grubauer after taking a…

Athens 5, Munich 1 – When Tomas Fleischmann found out his Munich Dire Wolf had acquired Daniel Sedin, planned to pair him with his twin Henrik and give Fleischmann the right wing on that line, he probably said, “Oh great! I get to play with the Sedin twins!” Now he’s probably saying sarcastically, “Oh great. I…