Madrid 3, Paris 2 – Fourth-line center Brandon Prust cashed in on a pair of goals to help Madrid top visiting Paris. Chris Kreider and Lee Stempniak earned assists on both goals. Prust has 5 goals this season. Paris got a goal from arguably the best and most underrated forward line in the EURO League. Justin…
St. Petersburg 5, London 2 – In a game against London and all-star goalie Martin Jones, Jonathan Huberdeau hit the 20-goal mark for the first time in his career and he scored a hat trick in St. Petersburg’s 5-2 win. Huberdeau is one of three Red Stars with 21 goals or more. Brad Richards (23)…
After reviewing the details involving a match penalty that Drew Shore of Copenhagen received in a Feb. 2 game, Sepp Blatter decided not to suspend the Trident forward. “Shore recklessly swung his stick with two hands, holding it like a baseball bat,” explained the league’s director of player discipline. “Normally, we would suspend players for…
Athens 3, Edinburgh 2 – The Greeks had to pull one out in the third period at home against the Capitals. David Backes scored his 28th of the season late and that was the winner. The captain who had 10 shots on goal is shooting for his fifth straight season of 30 goals or more.…
Tyler Myers, the league’s top goal scorer among defensemen, will sit a game following a spearing incident in a game in Paris on Tuesday. About halfway through the first period, Myers and Paris center Sergei Zinovjev pushed and shoved each other in front of the Bratislava net and Myers used the tip of his stick to…
Bern 3, Milan 2 – Bern should get more players with “berg” in their name. Henrik Zetterberg scored twice to give the Bears a 2-0 lead and Dennis Seidenberg blasted in a shot to break a tie and give Bern a lead they were able to hold onto. Mike Babcock’s guys gave Milan every chance…
Belfast 2, Berlin 1 – The top teams from both conferences clashed Wednesday with Belfast beating Berlin by a goal. The game featured good goaltending and relatively clean play. Only three penalties were called in the game and Berlin capitalized on one of them when Ryan Callahan took a pass from behind the net by Logan Couture…
Jimmy Howard of the Berlin Smurfs is having a great season, in fact one of the best ever by a EURO goalie, and he’s a big reason why the Smurfs lead the Southern Conference with 30 games to play. His 2.20 goals against average is even better than the league record 2.24 average that Jonathan Quick posted for Munich…
Minsk 6, Helsinki 3 – Nicklas Backstrom got the Hussars off to a good start against Helsinki and he and his mates kept the pressure up until the final buzzer. Backstrom scored one of three Minsk powerplay goals and he assisted on 3 other goals. Linemate Milan Lucic scored twice and the Hussars outshot the…
Madrid 5, Bratislava 3 – The Madrid Royals bounced back nicely from a shutout loss to Belfast the night before by beating visiting Bratislava 5-3. The home team was down 3-1 after one period, but scored three unanswered goals and an empty-netter with 4 seconds left. Andrej Meszaros, who grew up in Slovakia just about 1:40…
