EuroVision: Highlights, notes, tweets and photos from across the pond — where the lockout doesn’t quite translate
Alex Ovechkin pots the overtime game-winning goal on Sunday to give the KHL-leading Dynamo Moscow a 3-2 victory over Dinamo Minsk – the team that recently dropped Winnipeg Jets forward Evander Kane because “he could not adapt to hockey in the KHL,” the team’s athletic director, Igor Matushkin announced on Minsk’s website.
Philadelphia Flyers star Claude Giroux suffered an injury in Germany.
According to a USA Today report, Giroux was to miss Sunday’s game against Kölner Haie but could return to practice as early as Tuesday after being hit in the head during Friday’s loss to the Krefeld Penguins. The star left the ice on his own power and was sent to the hospital for evaluation.
Giroux’s agent, Pat Brisson, told the New Jersey-based Courier-Post it is a “very minor upper-body injury.”
German hockey writer Oliver Koch told Broadstreet Hockey that Giroux’s team, Eisbären Berlin, sent video of the hit to the Deutsche Eishockey Liga for review.
Goaltender David Aebischer — who last appeared in the NHL for the Phoenix Coyotes in 2007-08, when he played a grand total of one game – may have made the most spectacular save of this season.
Now playing for the Rapperswil Lakers of his native Switzerland (the same club Jason Spezza now plays for), a rejuvenated Aebischer is playing his sharpest hockey since he left North America five years ago.
Watch this pair of stick stops, the second one particularly dazzling.
“Best 2 Saves in Hockey History?” – as the YouTube poster suggests — might raise your expectations to unreasonable heights, but the stickwork is still damn impressive:
Spezza can relate to the Zug shooter, as Aebischer stoned the Ottawa Senator back when the two weren’t teammates in the NHL, way back in ’07:
Another game, another three points for Evgeni Malkin, who pushes his Magnitogorsk team to a 5-3 victory over Barys Sunday. Best line from the commentary: “Malkin scores from his knees while giving a piggyback. How do you defend against that?”
There’s a reason we ranked this guy No. 1 overseas:
Boston Bruins defenceman Johnny Boychuk is off to Austria:
Johnny Boychuk confirmed to @csnne he’s signed with the Salzburg Red Bulls in Austria and will be “leaving right away” #BruinsTalk
— Joe Haggerty (@HackswithHaggs) November 16, 2012
Los Angeles Kings defenceman Alec Martinez tweets from the hospital as he recovers from a puck to the face.
Surgery went really well and now just chillin in the recovery room #pillsaregoooood
— Alec Martinez (@amartinez_27) November 18, 2012
Absolutely zero recollection of my last tweet haha, but if x-rays go well I’ll probably be able to go home tomorrow! Thx for the kind words!
— Alec Martinez (@amartinez_27) November 18, 2012
Great hands on KHL veteran Vladimir Antipov, who scores this beauty for Chelyabinsk Traktor:
Antipov was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs way back in 1996 (fourth round) but never graduated from the AHL.
A huge Toronto Blue Jays fan, San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture is impressed by his home team’s wheeling and dealing. He sends kisses from Switzerland:
Dear Alex Anthopoulos, you are the man. And I love you. That is all, carry on.
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) November 16, 2012