Game Results

Andreas Holmqvist was scoreless as Froluna was smoked 6-2 by Linkopings.

Johan Harju was scoreless in Lulea's 4-3 win over Sodertalje. Former Lightning player Martin Cibak had a goal in the match for SSK.

Anton But had an assist and 2 penalty minutes in St. Petersburg's 4-3 win over Omsk. Denis Kazionov was scoreless for Avangard.

Albert Vishnyakov did not play in Spartak's 5-4 OT win over Khimik.

Crank up the speculation. Robert Esche made his debut for Ak Bars Kazan shutting out Tver 3-0. Dimitri Kazionov had an assist in the match for Kazan. Where does this leave Vasily Koshechkin? Stay tuned.

Alexei Glukhov was scoreless in Cherepovets' 3-1 loss to Novgorod.

Friday night's highlights:

• Fadden explodes offensively for Lethbridge
• Prince George's losing streak hits 7
• Justin Courtnall and Victoria crushed by Courtnall's 2006-2007 squad

Sloppy game, but the Lightning still issued a beat down.

WAS-2
TB-5

Johan Holmqvist was outstanding stopping 28 of 30 shots faced for the win.

First Period
Tampa Bay 1:31, Vincent Lecavalier 13 (power play) (Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards)
Washington 12:46, Brooks Laich 3 (Shaone Morrisonn, Boyd Gordon)
Washington 13:30, Alexander Ovechkin 13 (Chris Clark, Nicklas Backstrom)
Tampa Bay 15:19, Jan Hlavac 3 (unassisted)

Second Period
Tampa Bay 10:22, Brad Richards 7 (power play) (Vincent Lecavalier)
Tampa Bay 19:32, Paul Ranger 4 (Martin St. Louis)

Third Period
Tampa Bay 19:36, Martin St. Louis 7 (empty net) (Brad Richards, Vincent Lecavalier)

Exciting comeback, but the Ads could've really used the W.

NOR-4
SPR-5 (SO)

Jonathan Boutin stopped 30 of 34 shots faced in regulation and overtime before losing the shootout session 2-1 on six shooters faced.

First Period
SPR Spurgeon, (1) (Kemp, Berry), 3:10
NOR Darche, (1) (Campbell, Lampman), 19:34

Second Period
SPR Thoresen, (6) (Spurgeon), 5:08 (SH)
SPR Trukhno, (3) (Spurgeon, Pouliot), 9:29 (PP)
NOR Lampman, (3) (Darche), 15:37
SPR Thoresen, (7) , 17:08 (SH)
NOR Wanvig, (7) (Schneider, Darche), 17:56 (PP)

Third Period
NOR Wanvig, (8) (MacDonald, Darche), 16:25 (PP)

Overtime
NO SCORING

Shootout
NOR- Campbell
SPR- Thoreson, Thoreson