EuroVision: Goalie Bobrovsky sets up a gem

EuroVision: Highlights, notes, tweets and photos from across the pond – where the lockout doesn’t quite translate

If Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky can keep up his current two-points-per-game pace, he could give Alexander Radulov a run for the KHL scoring title. In his debut for Ilya Kovalchuk-captianed SKA St. Petersburg on Monday, Bobrovsky notched two assists in a 5-2 victory over Ak Bars Kazan.

Watch his long-bomb pass that sets up St. Louis Blues draftee Vladimir Tarasenko (three goals in two games, Blues fans!) for a dangling top-shelf beauty at the 4:00 mark of the following highlight package:

For hockey-starved North Americans, the KHL is getting an upgrade from YouTube. The league announced Tuesday morning that it will begin broadcasting select games on U.S. live-streaming service ESPN3. The schedule, set to feature five games over the next 10 days, begins Wednesday with Alex Ovechkin’s Dynamo Moscow vs. Ak Bars.

Sometime puck magician Alexei Kovalev, the 39-year-old who was vocal about making a bid to return to the National Hockey League this summer, has taken his unsigned talents elsewhere:

Boston Bruins behemoth Zdeno Chara will also be very tall and shoot very hard in Europe:

Dallas Stars offensive force Jamie Benn, who has scored a minimum of 22 goals in all three of his NHL seasons, is off to join the Hamburg Freezers, which sounds like a new microwavable product from Jimmy Dean but is actually an average club in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).

Alex Semin doesn’t usually play soccer, but when he does, he prefers the finest pitches in Krasnojarsk:

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