Two shutouts for Stockholm’s Holtby

Friday games Stockholm 3, Gothenburg 0 – The Eagles dominated at home, out-shooting Gothenburg 43-16 and shutting out Frolunda. Gothenburg goalie Anders Lindback, who ended up making 40 saves, kept his team in the game by holding off Stockholm’s shooters until Derick Brassard stole the puck from Dan Girardi right in front of the net and slammed…

Downie scores two more for Helsinki

Helsinki 5, Copenhagen 1 – Steve Downie is Helsinki’s leading goal scorer. What? Yes, it’s true and he added two goals to his total Thursday when the Jokerit invaded Copenhagen and dismantled the Tridents. Downie, know more for making people really mad at him, now has 13 goals, which equals the total that teammates Thomas…

Minsk, Backstrom blitz London early

Minsk 5, London 4 – In a fast and furious game featuring two Northern Conference heavyweights, one team did well in the first half of the game, the other did well in the second half, and Colin Wilson’s 6th goal of the season was the difference. The third-line left wing, took a pass from center…

Edinburgh’s Kovar earns first EURO shutout

Edinburgh 1, Gothenberg 0 – Jakub Kovar stopped all 30 Gothenburg shots, Fedor Tyutin blocked four more, and the fourth line of Alex Killorn, Alexnder Kerfoot and Carl Soderberg combined on the game’s only goal as Edinburgh won in Sweden. It was the 22-year-old Kovar’s first shutout in the league, and the Caps’ second shutout…

Top goalies duel in 1-0 game

Bratislava 1, Geneva 0 – If the season had ended Monday, Frederik Andersen of Geneva and Corey Crawford of Bratislava would both be carrying around trophies today – Andersen for having the league’s best save percentage (93.3 percent) and Crawford for lowest goals against average (1.91 per game). One would think a game involving those…

Irish come back to beat Moscow

Dublin 5, Moscow 3 – The Fighting Irish fought hard enough Sunday to claim two points in the standings and send Moscow home with none. Dublin got into penalty trouble early in the game but battled back to tie and eventually overtake the invaders from Moscow. David Backes put Moscow in front with a pair of goals in the…

Munich, Bratislava gain upset road wins

Munich 5, London 4 – Craig Smith isn’t the only one benefitting from an increase in his ice time. His Munich Dire Wolf teammates and fans get something out of it too. Like on Saturday, when the Madison, Wisconsin native scored twice – including the game-winner – to help Munich surprise London in England. Playing…

Oslo tops Athens in a shootout

Oslo 3, Athens 2 (OT – SO) – The Oslo Outlaws kept Athens’ big guns off the scoreboard and emerged from Greece with a win.  Anze Kopitar, T.J. Oshie, Andrew Ladd and Jason Pominville were able to fire a combined 22 shots at the Oslo net, but Semyon Varlamov was on his game and stopped…

Malkin looks like man on a mission

Paris 6, Milan 4 – Evgeny Malkin looks like he’s a man on a mission this season. The 30-year-old whose worst season thus far in the league was when he produced “only” 99 points in Paris’ Cup-winning season, is on pace for a personal best 138 points and he is the league’s leading scorer right now.…

Brother vs. brother in Russia

St. Petersburg 5, Edinburgh 3 – The Red Stars fired 53 shots on Edinburgh goalie  Jakub Kovar on Wednesday. One of the players Jakub was facing was his older brother Jan, the reigning Rookie of the Year. Jan scored once and had a game-high 8 shots on his brother and when the game’s 3 stars were…