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30 Mar 2014, 20:49 | Viiking Sport confirmed title in Estonia

With a spectacular comeback from 0-3 in game #3 of playoffs finals, Viiking Sport Tallinn won 4-3 at overtime and closed the series winning 3-0 over Kalev Valk Tartu, confirming the title won for the first time last season. it was a perfect season in Estonian Meistriliiga for Viiking that won all the games in regular season and playoffs.
"I suppose we were a bit better prepared physically," said forard Ragnar Hindrek Russ. "It is always good to win. Guys are very happy and we have a good feeling."

28 Mar 2014, 15:13 | Harijs Vitolins will coach Dynamo Moscow

Dynamo Moscow CEO Andrei Safronov announces during a press conference reported by RIA Novosti that Harijs Vitolins will be the new head coach of Dynamo, replacing Olegs Znarks, appointed as new head coach of Russia
Vitolins was Znaroks' assistant in last three seasons at Dynamo

27 Mar 2014, 14:28 | Andreas Johansson new head coach of HV71

Andreas Johansson was today named head coach of HV71. He signed a 2-year contract. The former NHL and Tre Kronor player was this season coach of Södertälje SK in HockeyAllsvenskan.

25 Mar 2014, 12:45 | Bipolo Vitoria win (also) Copa del Rey

Closing a dominating season, League champion Bipolo Vitoria captured Copa del Rey (Spanish National Cup) - the first ever in club history - last weekend by beating 4-1 CG Puigcerdà in the final, played in Barcelona in a repeat of recent League final series.

24 Mar 2014, 11:27 | Harold Kreis new coach of EV Zug

EV Zug announces German Harold Kreis as new head coach for two next seasons. Fired by Adler Mannheim in December, Kreis, 55, is back in Switzerland where he won two titles, with Lugano (2005-06) and ZSC Lions (2007-08).

23 Mar 2014, 20:53 | Austrian girls promoted

Austria won the World Women's U18 Championship Div. I Qualification in Krynica, Poland undefeated.

This means that Austria is promoted to the 2015 IIHF Ice Hockey U18 Womens World Championship Division I.

Outstanding scoring leader of the competition was Poland's Kamila Wieczorek who recorded nine goals and two assists in the four games.

20 Mar 2014, 22:14 | Polish finals

GKS Tychy beat Aksam Unia 1-0 tonight to win the semi final series 4-2 and qualify for the finals against Ciarko PBS Bank. Josef Vitek scored the goal early in the third period.

Ciarko PBS Bank from Sanok had earlier knocked out JKH GKS Jastrzębie 4-1.

19 Mar 2014, 15:10 | KHL increase number of foreigners per team to 7

According to Russian website rsport.ru the foreigner limit for the KHL teams which was 5 so far, has been extended to 7 players per team. In a meeting of the KHL clubs in Moscow on Wednesday all but 2 teams voted in favour of the foreigner increase. It was only decided to play the 2014-15 season with 7 foreigners as a compromise as most teams want no limit at all similar to the NHL where a team could consists of 100% foreign players in theory.

The change in the foreigner limit has to be allowed by the KHL until 15 April 2014 to be valid for next season.

There are different regulations for non-Russian expansion teams who can sign a larger number of foreigners to be competitive with the Russian teams.

17 Mar 2014, 10:57 | Bipolo Vitoria wins Spanish League

Bipolo Vitoria/Gasteiz confirms its dominion over the Spanish hockey scene winning the second consecutive title after beating 5-2 in playoffs finals game #4 CG Puigcerdà. With just 5 games lost in last two regular seasons and a 4-lines roster (not common in Spain where usually teams play with two lines), Bipolo swept opponents allowing Puigcerdà a victory in the series. Catalan team submitted a protest after the first two games of finals alleging three Bipolo imports - Evan Mackintosh, Vitaly Kulikov and Dmitry Gnitko - were alligned unevenly, but Federation rejected the requestNow Bipolo can seal another perfect season grabbing also Copa del Rey that will be played in Barcelona next week, with Bipolo as favourite

17 Mar 2014, 03:59 | Fan brawl in Geleen

The final round robin match in the Larry van Wieren Cup had to be abandoned at the 45 minute mark after a brawl in the stands had broken out. According to IJshockey the atmosphere inside the arena had been unpleasent for some time and a hit finally set things off. The father of ref Ramon Sterkens and Eindhoven back-up goalkeeper Michael Sterkens was hit that set both of them off, Ramon tried to get off the ice to help his father, while Michael climbed up onto the glass. The NIJB gave the victory to Eindhoven who was leading 5:1 at the time. Both Eindhoven and Geleen will see each other in the Finals next weekend.

Video of the fight can be seen here

16 Mar 2014, 19:39 | Donetsk-Riga series relocated to Bratislava

The KHL today announced that game 7 of the Western Conference quarterfinals series between Donbass Donetsk and Dinamo Riga has been moved from Donetsk, Ukraine, to Bratislava, Slovakia. This comes after the security risk in the unstable East of Ukraine which is highly affected by the Crimea crisis, is too high to organize such an event without any risks. Slovan won't need their home arena after losing round one of Nadezhda Cup against Dinamo Minsk. The game is played on Monday, 17 March 2014, at 19.00 CET.

15 Mar 2014, 09:57 | Fiery Crusaders Tbilisi continues on top of Georgian League after spring stage

Fiery Crusaders Tbilisi stay at the top of Georgian League after the end of spring stage, played in the city of Batumi, where is located one of two regular size rink of the country. Last December the icerink roof collapsed due to the abundant snowfall endangering the activities, but local government repair it in some weeks.
Before the last stage, helding in May, Fiery Crusaders is one point ahead of Mimino Bakuriani and Grey Wolves Tbilisi, while champion Ice Knights is last, 10 points behind Fiery Crusaders

14 Mar 2014, 17:42 | Taticek suspended after attacking linesman in game 2 of 1/4 final series against Kloten

According to the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation, Reto Steinmann, judge for the National League decided to hand out a 7 game suspension and a fine of CHF 1'500 to HC Davos player Petr Taticek after his attack on the linesman before starting a brawl with Micki Dupont of the Kloten Flyers. He points
out that Taticeks behaviour saw the linesman as an object in his way and pushed him away. As a consequence, the linesman fell to the ice but wasn't injured.

As attacks on officials are recognised as a crass offence, the judge saw his decision justified. Taticek will be available to
play for his team in the semifinals at the earliest.

Both teams meet again on Saturday in Kloten for the 3rd game, Davos leads 2:0.

14 Mar 2014, 11:42 | HC Lada to have 7 imports

Hockey club Lada is on the way to return to KHL. "We have an agreement with KHL president Alexander Medvedev that we will have 7 imports and will have a re-draft procedure" said the press-officer of Sport Minister of Samara Pavel Seshchenko on Twitter.

14 Mar 2014, 10:50 | Chinese women win in Harbin

China won the 2014 Women's Challenge Cup of Asia after beating North Korea 2-1 at home in Harbin.

South Korea captured the third place after a 2-1 overtime win over Australia.

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