All-Star 6 Voting: The Centres

Vote for 3 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner. …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position: Center Northern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3 pts.) – 3rd (1 pt.) – Southern Conference 1st (5 points) – 2nd (3…

All-Star 6 Voting: The Defensemen

Vote for 5 players from each conference. Do not vote for players on your own team. Write-in votes will count. Goalies and forwards will be posted later. Here’s a message to cut and paste to send to the commissioner, either in a Websim message or regular e-mail to buffalolean@gmail.com: …………………………………………………………………… Commissioner,  here are my votes. Position:…

Season 6 All-Star Game planned

General Managers in the EURO League have been asked to vote on the host city for this year’s all-star game. The host GM doesn’t have to do anything for the event other than provide drinks (ale, Sangria, vodka, etc.) and designated drivers for visiting GMs. The Northern Conference won the first four all-star games that were…

Luongo, 37, throws another shutout

Saturday games Copenhagen 1, Athens 0 – Roberto Luongo, who was a big reason the Copenhagen Tridents were highly successful during the first three years of the EURO League, is back in Denmark these days after a two-year stint in Zurich, and as the Tridents’ number one goalie, he is proving he still has a…

Stockholm beats fellow Swedes again

Thursday games Stockholm 2, Gothenberg 1 (OT) – Bobby Ryan was the hero in this battle between the league’s two Swedish teams. The 29-year-old who held the league record for most goals in a season (56) until Steven Stamkos of Lisbon scored 59 last season, scored his 15th of this season to give Stockholm a…

Soderberg goal the difference for Edinburgh

Edinburgh 3, Geneva 2 – A close game in Geneva went to the visitors, who were just a little bit better. Edinburgh had 29 shots on goal to Geneva’s 23 and they were able to hold onto the 3-0 lead they had when Carl Soderberg sniped his 6th of the season very early in the second…

Sepp Blatter under investigation

A rash of suspensions in the EURO League this week has turned a suspicious eye toward Sepp Blatter, the league’s director of player safety and discipline. On Tuesday, two players drew suspensions: Roman Horak, Athens, 2 games for a slash to Prague defenseman Robin Grossman’s ankle Justin Faulk, Belfast, 1 game for an elbow that…

Coburn shorthanded goal deflates Bears

Zurich 3, Bern 2 – The first period was a deflating one for the Bears and they never really recovered against their fellow Swiss. Bern came out strong in the beginning, outshooting the Lions 13-5 in the first period while Zurich seemed to be busy digging themselves a hole to climb out of. While killing…

Quiet little goal ends up as the big one

St. Petersburg 1, London 0 – Halfway through a quiet and frankly, flat first period, Danis Zaripov took a Devante Smith-Pelly pass from the side boards and snapped a shot toward the London net … and it snuck past goalie Martin Jones and crossed the line. Not a highlight reel goal by any stretch of the…

Blatter announces two more suspensions

Sepp Blatter has two more player suspensions to announce. On Friday, 23-year-old Stefan Ulmer, an Austrian playing for the Smurfs, received a match penalty for spearing at the same time Bern’s Olli Malmivaara sustained a hernia injury. We’ll let you connect the dots and draw your own picture of what happened on the play. Berlin…