Articles archive

Slovenian ice hockey farce

(30 Jul 2011, 21:47) | The control board of the Hockey Union of Slovenia (HZS) decided that the President of HZS Mr. Matjaz Rakovec can no longer stay in his position. Read more»

Mike Danton signs with IFK Ore

(30 Jul 2011, 00:51) | From an NHL career to five years in prision, then two years in Canadian university hockey. Now the former New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues center has signed with Swedish club IFK Ore in Division 1, the third highest league in Sweden. Read more»

Economic trouble for Frisk Asker - sacks players

(28 Jul 2011, 18:12) | Norwegian elite club Frisk Asker Tigers takes action to clean up their economy after some seasons with deficits and has decided to sack three of their best payed players and some of the administrative staff. Read more»

Thirty days in jail for Khabibulin

(28 Jul 2011, 08:32) | Edmonton Oilers veteran goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin is going to serve a 30-day prison sentence for driving under the influence of alcohol and speeding. Read more»

Eurohockey takes a look at the KHL coaches

(27 Jul 2011, 18:08) | Thirteen Russians, four Czechs, three Finns and one from Slovakia, Canada, Latvia and Sweden. Here are the 2011/12 KHL head coaches. Read more»

New agreement between DEB and DEL

(22 Jul 2011, 18:19) | The German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB) and the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) have signed a new cooperation agreement. The main focus of the agreement is a new administration for the German national team. However no agreement has been reached on promotion to, and relegation from, the DEL. Read more»

New format for Women’s WC

(18 Jul 2011, 22:47) | The IIHF and USA Hockey today announced the schedule of the 2012 Womens' World Championship. The tournament will be played April 7-14 in Burlington, Vermont, USA and will be the first time that the tournament will be played with a new format that also will be used in the 2014 Olympics. Read more»

Groups for EWCC announced

(18 Jul 2011, 16:52) | The IIHF has announced the groups for the 2011/2012 edition of the European Women's Championship Cup. Just like last year, the tournament will be played with three rounds of group stages. Read more»

Hockeyarchives ranks Europe’s top 250 clubs

(14 Jul 2011, 20:28) | KHL and Russia dominates the list with six clubs in top ten and for the second year in a row Salavat Yulaev Ufa tops the list. Best non Russian clubs are Davos in fourth and Färjestad in fifth. Read more»

Our main problem is the lack of ice rinks

(14 Jul 2011, 18:17) | Serbian junior coach Dusan Rudan describes the situation for hockey youngsters in his country and is critical of the World U20 Championship that was held in Mexico last season, where he won promotion to Division 2 with Serbia U20. Read more»

Great people of hockey history: Best left winger of the 80s burned out in NHL

(13 Jul 2011, 21:11) | "The best left winger ever". "The Tank". But also "Vladimir Crouton" or "Vlad the Inhaler". These all were nicknames of a famous hockey player from the 80s. Vladimir Krutov was a goalkeeper’s nightmare on the ice and, together with Igor Larionov and Sergei Makarov, formed the most famous line of the Soviet Red Army. But he didn’t cope well with moving across the Atlantic Ocean for a chance to live in a capitalist society and play in the NHL. Read more»

First Czech NHLer dies

(11 Jul 2011, 23:43) | Jaroslav Jiřík, the first Czech player and the first player trained in an Eastern Bloc country to play in the NHL, died in a plane crash on Sunday at the age of 71. Read more»

AHL Roundup

(08 Jul 2011, 23:29) | Since Swedish rookie goalie Robin Lehner won the Jack Butterfield playoff MVP as he and his Binghamton Senator teammates captured the Calder Cup trophy in Houston the AHL it has been a merry-go-round of activity since throughout the AHL. Read more»

How did Jágr end up in Philadelphia?

(06 Jul 2011, 17:52) | Many people were really surprised by Jaromír Jágr’s recent decision to sign with the Philadelphia Flyers. There seemed to several more likely destinations for arguably the world’s greatest hockey player over the past 20 years, but in retrospect it makes sense. Let's take a look at how Jágr's signature ended up under the Flyers’ letterhead. Read more»

All DEL clubs receive licenses

(06 Jul 2011, 16:25) | This is the result of the license review process for the DEL 2011/2012 season, in which the Deutsche Eishockey Liga Betriebsgesellschaft mbH today confirmed the licenses. Read more»