TODAY'S GAMES (ALL TIMES EASTERN U.S./CANADA)
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KHL at Noon:
Ruslan Fedotenko and HC Donbass Donetsk have a tough home game against a team from the other conference, Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The Metallurg club featured Evgeni Malkin and the league's fourth-leading scorer, Sergei Mozyakin. A
free webcast is available.
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OHL at 7:00 P.M.: Coming off a drubbing on Sunday at the hands of the Plymouth Whalers,
Scott Laughton,
Colin Suellentrop and Oshawa Generals are on the road tonight to take on the Ottawa 67s. A free
radio stream is available or you can
purchase a live webcast for $6.99.
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RESULTS ROUNDUP: TUESDAY
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European Trophy: As expected, Eisbären Berlin found the going much tougher offensively against Elitserien club Luleå HF (arguably the best defensive team in Europe right now) than against its DEL opponents in Germany. The game was scoreless until the 15:51 mark of the second period when
Claude Giroux set up Constanin Braun to break the deadlock. Julian Talbot added an empty net goal late in regulation to make it a 2-0 final. Giroux was given one-star honors (which is actually third star honors under the way it's selected in North America).
Although
Danny Briere participated in the pre-game press conference with Giroux upon their arrival in Luleå on Monday, Briere was a late scratch for yesterday's game. He reportedly came down with a cold/flu, and there was no real need to push it, especially with his team only needing one point to qualify for the tournament playoffs. Luleå played the game without four of its top nine forwards in the lineup (Chris Abbott, Cam Abbott, Toni Koivisto and Joonas Vihko).
Both Luleå (7-1-0 in round-robin play) and Eisbären (6-1-1) qualify for the playoff round, which will be played in Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia from December 13 to 16. Hopefully, there will be NHL hockey by then, and Giroux and Briere will be back with the Flyers.
Eisbären returns to DEL action on Friday, taking on the Straubing Tigers.
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Czech Extraliga: After signing with HC Bili Tygri Liberec (the Liberec White Tigers) on Monday and having one practice with the club,
Wayne Simmonds and Chris Stewart were both in the lineup for the struggling team yesterday. Liberec, which is in 13th place in the 14-team league, was on the road to play cellar-dwelling Sparta Prague.
Liberec still managed to lose, 3-1.
Neither Simmonds nor Stewart figured in the scoring. Former Flyers center Petr Nedved, who is still Liberec's leading scorer and a top Extraliga player at age 40, set up the team's lone goal.
The White Tigers return to action on Friday, hosting HC Mountfield Ceske Budejovice.
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Allsvenskan: There was mostly positive news for
Matt Read and Södertälje SK in their home meeting with Anze Kopitar and Mora IK. On the positive side, SSK won the game by a 3-1 score. Read's line accounted for two of the three goals, as New York Rangers forward Carl Hagelin scoring a dazzling late first period goal with a burst of explosive speed and a good finish and then later added an empty net goal. Read outplayed and frustrated Kopitar, helping to keep him off the scoresheet. Kopitar broke his stick in frustration at the the final buzzer.
The only negative: Read's streak of recording points in every game thus far came to an end. He appeared to touch the puck in the sequence that led up to Hagelin's empty-netter but two other teammates (Michael Bergin and Viktor Lööv) were offically the last two to touch the puck before Hagelin scored into the vacated cage.
Södertälje returns to action tomorrow with a road game against IK Oskarshamn.
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KHL:
Ilya Bryzgalov was scratched again as the third goaltender in CSKA Moscow's 3-2 road win in Slovakia over Slovan Bratislava. Ex-Washington Capital netminder Rastislav Stana started in goal and made 22 of 24 saves, getting beaten only by Miroslav Satan and Lubomir Visnovsky.
CSKA is in the Czech Republic on Friday to take on Lev Prague.
Jakub Voracek will remain out of the lineup while continuing to rehab a knee injury, but is getting close to practicing with the team. He has reportedly already resumed skating.
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