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Interest for Russian Junior League dramatically increased

(26 May 2011, 15:23) | After second year of its existence, attendance results for MHL are very positive Read more»

SM-Liiga awards 2011

(22 May 2011, 08:46) | The Finnish SM-Liiga season 2010-11 ended on Saturday evening with a traditional league gala. The celebrations were held in Vierumäki. Read more»

Euro Ice Hockey Challenge Tournaments 2011/2012

(20 May 2011, 12:23) | The EIHC countries have announced the groups and dates for the upcoming season. Hungary, Belarus and Poland will host the first tournaments Read more»

Vote for the European Player of the Month

(19 May 2011, 22:37) | In a joint vote for April and May, Viktor Fasth, Mikael Granlund, Jarkko Immonen, André Rankel and Jaromir Jagr are nominated. Join us at Facebook and vote for your favourite. Read more»

Ottawa to host the 2013 IIHF World Women’s Championship

(18 May 2011, 21:57) | Hockey Canada announced Wednesday that Ottawa will host the 2013 IIHF World Women’s Championship. Read more»

2012 IIHF World Championship groups announced

(18 May 2011, 15:36) | IIHF announced the groups for the World Championship in Helsinki (Finland) and Stockholm (Sweden) that will be played May 4-20 2012. Read more»

European Trophy welcomes 10 new teams

(17 May 2011, 12:28) | The tournament that started in 2006 as a pre-season tournament with four Finnish and four Swedish teams continues to expand and now includes 24 teams from six countries. Read more»

2011 IIHF World Ranking

(16 May 2011, 14:52) | After winning the gold medals Finland moved from 5th to 2nd place on the World ranking. Russia is still in the lead. Read more»

World Championship awards

(16 May 2011, 14:33) | The individual awards of the 2011 IIHF World Championship have been handed out. Swedish goalie Viktor Fasth got three of them. Read more»

Finland 2011 World Champion

(15 May 2011, 22:35) | Finland beat Sweden 6-1 in the World Championship final in Bratislava to win its second World Championship in history. Read more»

Goals galore as Czechs take bronze

(15 May 2011, 19:07) | The Czech Republic bounced back after a disappointing semifinal loss and scored seven goals to beat Russia 7-4 in a highly entertaining game and claim bronze medals at this year’s World Championship in Slovakia. Roman Cervenka became the star of the show, scoring a hat-trick. Read more»

IIHF announces the 2012 World Championship Program

(14 May 2011, 15:59) | The 2011 IIHF Annual Congress decided about the allocations of the 27 tournaments in the IIHF World Championship Program next year. As known earlier Sweden and Finland, the 2011 finalists, will co-host the World Championship. Slovenia (Group A) and Poland (Group B) will host the World Championship Division 1. Read more»

Kyrgyzstan becomes the 70th IIHF member

(14 May 2011, 15:22) | Kyrgyzstan from Central Asia was granted an IIHF membership by the International Ice Hockey Federation on its Annual Congress in Bratislava. Read more»

Granlund scores a fantastic goal and sends Finland to the finals!

(13 May 2011, 23:11) | Mikael Granlund scored an incredible goal at 25:03 and Russians were unable to tie the game until the end. Finland finally prevailed 3-0 and will play inthe World championship finals for the first time since 2007. They will meet their arch-rivals from Sweden for the fourth time in history. Read more»

Sweden sends reigning champions out

(13 May 2011, 19:04) | Team Sweden wins the first semifinal of World Championships against Team Czech Republic 5-2 and puts an end to the winning run of reigning champions. Tre Kronor scored four unanswered goals during second and third period to gain a deciding advantage. Read more»