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SHL - monthly review, February 2018

(13 Feb 2018, 11:02) | The Olympic Games doesn’t mean an end to fantastic matches to watch, but it does means a short pause in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) season which give us a chance to reflect on the last month’s action. Read more»

Olympic Games: Sweden vs Korea, Women’s Group Match

(13 Feb 2018, 10:50) | Sweden's medal hopefuls take on host nation, Korea, in the second match of the group stages. Read more»

No NHLers, No Problem: Preparing For an Unmatched Olympic Tournament

(13 Feb 2018, 07:05) | No NHLers? No Problem. Get prepared for one of the best Olympic tournaments you have ever seen. Read more»

Canada Finishes Olympic Pre-Tournament With Rough Win Over Sweden

(12 Feb 2018, 06:34) | Canada has finished their pre-Olympic tournament schedule with a 4-1 victory over Sweden in Incheon, South Korea on Monday afternoon. Read more»

Liam Kirk: NHL bound?

(11 Feb 2018, 20:28) | Liam Kirk, one of Sheffield Steelers youngsters has attracted interest from the NHL. Read more»

Olympic Games: Sweden vs Japan, Women’s Group Match

(10 Feb 2018, 14:23) | A close game, with one goal in each period and a few names on the score sheet that might be familiar to NHL fans. Read more»

Russia Controls South Korea in Final Pre-Olympic Contest

(10 Feb 2018, 06:27) | Russia has finished their pre-Olympic tournament schedule with a massive 8-1 victory over the hosts of the 2018 Olympics, South Korea. Read more»

JYP win thriller in Champions Hockey League final

(07 Feb 2018, 07:56) | JYP Jyväskylä of Finland travelled to meet Växjö Lakers of Sweden as underdogs in the Champions Hockey League final on 6 February 2018. In this fourth year of the competition it was again a Swedish team versus a Finnish team in the final where the Swedes had always won against their Nordic rivals. Would history repeat itself? Read more»

South Africa Wins Division III World Junior Qualification Tournament

(06 Feb 2018, 21:21) | South Africa will return to the Division III World Juniors in 2019 after beating Chinese Taipei in a best of three series 2-0. Read more»

Want to know about the players in their Olympic team?

(31 Jan 2018, 12:10) | In this article I want to have a look at some of the players from Norway, Finland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Czech Republic and Germany who will be playing in the Olympics who have worked in one of Europe's best hockey leagues, the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Read more»

Norwegian international, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen, retires at 33

(31 Jan 2018, 12:05) | On 30 January 2018, Ole-Kristian Tollefsen officially retired as a professional hockey player in a long and moving interview published on the website of his last club, Sweden’s Färjestad BK. The Norwegian has played for Syracuse Crunch in the AHL, Columbus Blue Jackets in the NHL and MODO Hockey and Färjestad BK in the SHL. Read more»

Russia Shuts Out Belarus in Pre-Olympic Tournament Match

(30 Jan 2018, 19:39) | The Olympic Athletes of Russia met up with Belarus in a pre-Olympic tournament match, defeating their opponents by a shutout score of 3-0. Read more»

Hockey tries to rise again in Uzbekistan

(27 Jan 2018, 12:29) | The newly created Uzbekistan Hockey Federation has ambitious plans to develope icehockey in the country Read more»

Want to know about the players in the Sweden Olympic team?

(24 Jan 2018, 00:04) | It is not just the North American teams that are affected by the NHL players not coming to the Olympics, but also Sweden. This team contains no one who played a game when Sweden won a Silver Medal in Sochi 2014 and only four players who played when Sweden won the World Championships in 2017. Read more»

Nineteen year old makes history.

(22 Jan 2018, 19:49) | Young apprentice Cole Shudra scored a hat trick which made him the youngest person to do this in Elite League history. Read more»