Hannover and Nürnberg out of DEL playoff race

Jean Perron backs on Israel bench

Montreal Canadiens' 1998 Stanley Cup winning coach Jean Perron has agreed to return on Israel national team bench for upcoming IHWC Division II.
Perron, 66, led Israel in 2005 and 2006 when team won II Division and was promoted in Division I, the best ever result for Israeli hockey.
Perron will be at National Team training camp scheduled for February 3-4.

(28 Jan 2012)

New problems for Serbian League

With just one game played and start postponed from November to January, Serbian League continues to face difficulties: game number 2 between Crvena Zvedza and Vitez, scheduled for yesterday, was cancelled. It seems Crvena Zvezda wants to withdraw from the league

(28 Jan 2012)

Lausanne takes a 0-5 by forfeit

Swiss Nationalliga B disciplinary commission decided to assign a 5-0 loss to Lausanne in the last January 24 game against HC Thurgau, originally won 3-0 by Lausanne. Team alligned defender Tim Bucher despite he received a major penalty, and so an automatic one-game suspension, in January 21 game against EHC Visp

(27 Jan 2012)

After 213 consecutive games played Lidström wasn’t on ice

A flu stopped the Detroit Red Wings captain Nicklas Lidström after 213 consecutive games. The Swedish defender missed the last Red Wings game against Montreal. His last game watched from the stands was on April 2009 against Chicago.
Lidström also leads the team with 23:43 of ice time per game.

(26 Jan 2012)

Jan Latvala makes Finnish ice hockey history

Jan Latvala, Pelicans Lahti, will play his 1000th SM-liiga game on Saturday, Feb 4th at home against TPS. Latvala, 39, is only the 2nd player in Finnish SM-liiga who reaches this milestone. Current record holder is Rauma native Erik Hämäläinen who played 1001 games for Lukko, KalPa and Jokerit during seasons 1982-2008. Latvala is going to break also this record couple of games later. Besides Pelicans Latvala has played for JYP and Jokerit.

When Latvala some day retires his record will most likely stand for years. At the moment next active player with most played games is HPK's Marko Tuulola, soon 41 years, with 826 games (by the 24th of Jan).

(25 Jan 2012)

Ovechkin won’t play All Star Game

Upcoming January 29 All-Star Game won't count with Aleksandr Ovechkin. After the three games suspension taken for a charging incident with Pittsburgh Penguins defenseman Zbynek Michalek last Sunday, Ovechkin said he dosn't deserve to partecipate in All-Star Game as a suspended player. In a statement NHL said it had "no intention of pursuing this matter further."

(25 Jan 2012)

Game number 1000 for Vitaly Proshkin

Salavat Yulayev Ufa defender Vitaly Proshkin played career game n° 1.000 in Russian elite leagues today in Salavat 3-0 victory against Vityaz. He debuted in 1994-95 season with Kristall Elektrostal, playing also for Dynamo moscow and Ak Bars Kazan where he spent most of his career (407 games. Proshkin, 36, played also in six World Championship with Russian national team. He celebrated the milestone serving one assist in Salavat 2nd goal scored by Igor Grigorenko

(24 Jan 2012)

Sokol Krasnoyarsk changes coach

Six consecutive defeats cost the job for Aleksandr Glazkov, replaced on Sokol Krasnoyarsk (VHL) bench by Byelorussian Vyacheslav Dolishnya

(24 Jan 2012)