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29 Aug 2014, 12:23 | Angers won Jacques Lacarrière trophy

after losing the playoffs finals last season, Angers took its revenge on Briançon winning the Match of Champions (Jacques Lacarrière Trophy), the trophy which opens the season in France between the Ligue Magnus champion and the winner of Cup of France. Angers won 4-1 (1-0, 0-0,3-1) at home in front of 1100 spectators. Goals were scored by Yannick Tifu,Tim Crowder, Guillaume Lefebvre and Brian Henderson for Angers and Marc-Andre Bernier for Briançon.
Angers goalie Alexis Neau was named MVP.

28 Aug 2014, 15:50 | Creation of Polish-Slovak team postponed

According to portal hokej.net, the Polish-Slovak project to enter a joint team called HC Jackals Poland into Russian Junior League MHL, has been postponed to next year.

26 Aug 2014, 12:08 | Kazakhstan and French Cup de la Ligue started

Last wekend other two 2014-15 season competitions started: Kazakhstan Cup and Coupe de la Ligue in France. Follow them with complete eurohockey.com coverage!

26 Aug 2014, 00:24 | Jeff Pyle named new coach of Valpellice

American Jeff Pyle, 55, is the new headcoach of Valpellice. Pyle comes back to Europe where he closed player's career and began coaching in Germany. Last season he missed playoffs with Evansville Icemen in ECHL

25 Aug 2014, 00:30 | SønderjyskE player suspended

Kristoffer Mohr of the Danish team SønderjyskE has been suspended for four games of Champions Hockey League after a knee check against Skellefteå's Mikko Lehtonen on Saturday.

22 Aug 2014, 10:35 | All Extraliga teams’ licenses approved by the federation

Slovakian Federation announced all ten clubs partecipating in 2014-2015 had licenses approved. Also SKP Poprad received license after having fulfilled their obligations to coaches and players for past season, one of the conditions for granting the license

21 Aug 2014, 21:50 | Arizona Sundogs and Denver Cutthroats suspend operations

In few hours the Central Hockey League announced that the Denver Cutthroats and the arizona sundogs have suspended operations, effective immediately, and will not compete in the 2014-15 season. Both teams will look to secure additional investors with the hope of returning for the 2015-16 campaign. With the latter defections, following that of St. Charles Chill announced in June, the CHL remains with seven teams, the smallest number since the league's re-birth in 1992.

21 Aug 2014, 15:52 | Belarus Cup started

The 2014 edition of Belarus Cup, dedicated to the memory of Ruslan Salei, started yesterday with the two groups first round. Cup holder Yunost minsk defeated 5-2 HK Lida, while Irek Khafizov scored the first official goal for Dinamo Maladzyechna, in team's 3-1 defeat against Shakhtar Soligorsk. Check all results, stats and boxscores on eurohockey.com page

21 Aug 2014, 11:19 | Slavutich can join Belarus League

Russian team Slavutich Smolensk can join Belarus League in the next season according to Belarussian tribuna.com. Slavutich won Russian Hockey League - Russian third division - last season.

21 Aug 2014, 09:45 | Hamburg forward Madsen out for up to 8 weeks

Danish international Morten Madsen who plays for German elite team Hamburg Freezers will miss between 6 and 8 weeks with the team and thus the start of Champions Hockey League and Deutsche Eishockey Liga. On Sunday, Madsen suffered a torn muscle fibre in right thigh while playing in a test game against DEL2 side Fischtown Penguins. With 41 points in a total of 62 games he was one of Hamburgs top scorers in the last DEL season.

19 Aug 2014, 13:24 | Don MacAdam new coach at Caldaro

Caldaro announces the appointment of Canadian Don MacAdam as new coach for upcoming season. MacAdam has a long coaching career in Canada and Japan. his last job was in 2009-10 season at Lewiston MAINEiacs, where he was also Club president. In 2006 MacAdam was inducted in native Prince edward Island Hall of Fame

19 Aug 2014, 12:23 | World Championship press conference

The official game schedule of the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship in Prague and Ostrava was presented today at the official press conference in Prague as well as a complete overview of ticket information. Read the coverage from this press conference here.

19 Aug 2014, 12:03 | World Championship schedule

The schedule of the 2015 IIHF World Championship has been released today. Find all games here.

19 Aug 2014, 10:39 | Erwin Kostner to coach Italy U20

SHC Fassa coach Erwin Kostner was appointed as new coach of Italy U20, replacing Robert Ghizzali, resigned for personal reasons. After being promoted last year, Italy will play WJC U20 Division Ia at home, in Asiago, 14 to 20 December 2014 against Norway, Latvia, Belarus, Austria and Slovenia.

15 Aug 2014, 21:32 | Canada and Czech Republic to Ivan Hlinka final

Canada and Czech Republic won today's semi finals of Ivan Hlinka Memorial Cup for U18 national teams and are qualified for the final tomorrow in Breclav.

Canada beat USA 11-5 and the Czech Republic eliminated Sweden 4-3. Russia beat Slovakia 5-2 in the 7th place game and Finland ended 5th thanks to a 9-3 win over Switzerland.