Early Game – #2 Slovenia vs #3 Ireland The early match featured a Slovenian squad trying to catch up with 1st place Italy against an Irish squad who could move up to 2nd place with a win. Slovenian sniper Paul Riopelle ricocheted one off the post for the lone 1st period goal. Ireland’s Tim Randa […]

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Early Game – #1 Slovenia versus #2 Italy The early game featured a Slovenian squad looking to hold on to 1st place against an Italian squad behind them by only one point. Winner of this one gets their own seat at the top of the standings. Italy came out firing in the first period, going […]

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Early Game – #3 Ireland vs #4 Portugal Portugal missing a bunch of guys in this one, but absolutely battled against a full Ireland squad to the final buzzer, peppering Ireland’s goalie and giving 100% even though the bounces never seemed to go their way. What an absolute bunch of beauties this Portugal squad is. […]

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Early Game – #3 Ireland vs #5 Scotland British hockey at its finest in the early show. Jim Maguire led off the scoring, answered quickly by Tim Randa to finish the first period 1-1. Scotland went ahead 3-2 after the second period off goals from Maguire and Alan Robb to counter a single from Ireland’s […]

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Early Game – #1 Slovenia vs. #4 Portugal A great early matchup with Team Portugal looking to get their 4th win in a row against the first place Slovenians. A tight-checking first period saw the two teams trade singles from their respective point leaders Riopelle and Platt. Then the game burst open with 6 goals […]

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Early Game – #3 Italy vs #5 Scotland Scotland was looking to break a 2-game skid versus 3rd place Italy but had their hands full from the beginning. Scotland has three Rocket Richard winners on their squad and all three were on the ice Friday night, but the Finnish fence, Tomi Nieminen, kept out all […]

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Early Game – #4 Scotland vs #5 Portugal On the surface game 1 looked like a contest for last place, but Scotland won 3 games in Round 2 and Portugal has recent wins against 1st and 2nd place opponents. Both squads looking to move up in the standings. Jim Maguire opened the scoring for Scotland […]

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