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16 Jan 2014, 14:12 | DESTIL Trappers Tilburg Dutch Cup Champions

The Dutch Cup will be staying in Tilburg for another season as the club defeated UNIS Flyers Heerenveen 2:1 in Eindhoven infront of 2000 fans. A pair of powerplay goals from Bob Teunissen and Diederick Hagemeijer mid-way through the first period was enough for the Trappers, Tony Demelinne made things interesting mid-way through the third but it wasnt enough. Tilburg has earned their 13th Dutch Cup.

16 Jan 2014, 09:02 | Piestany received money to build a new arena

Prime Minister of Slovakia donated one million euros to build a new training hall of the National Hockey Center in Piestany. In exchange for it, the City will rent 10 years for free the arena for Slovakia national teams

13 Jan 2014, 08:37 | Indian national championships underway

The 5th National Indian Ice Hockey championships - Men and Women tournaments - is underway until 16th January at Karzoo Ice rink in Leh. Teams participating J& (Red), J&K (Blue), Kargil. LWSC, Army. HAWS, Maharashtra, Ex Servicemen and ITBP Haryana

11 Jan 2014, 09:54 | Vityaz fires coach Leonov

Vityaz Podolsk fires coach Yuri Leonov. Assistant Oleg Orekhovski will act as interim head coach

10 Jan 2014, 13:41 | Mario Richer is the new coach of Val Pusteria

Canadian Mario Richer, 48, is the new coach of Val Pusteria Wolves. He replaced temporary coach Oly Hicks after the firing of Mike Busniuk. Richer started season at Graz 99ers of EBEL, but was fired in the late October

10 Jan 2014, 12:43 | Government helps Banska Bystrica to renovate arena

The city of Banska Bystrica received one million euros by the end of last year from the budgetary reserve of the Prime Minister for the reconstruction of the north grandstand of ice rink is intended grant. As is clear from the contract between the Office of the Government and Banska Bystrica, the city must grant to use money exclusively for this purpose and reconciled by the end of 2015.

09 Jan 2014, 16:37 | Vehanen declined invite to play KHL All Star game

Invited to play KHL All Star Game to replace injured Alexander Yeryomenko, Lev Prague goalie Petri Vehanen declined the proposal, explaining that he "did not feel ready at 100%."

08 Jan 2014, 08:49 | Petri Vehanen joins Team West

Lev Praha goalie Petri Vehanen will join Team West for this coming weekend's All-Star Weekend in Bratislava. The fans' first chioce, Dynamo Moscow's Alexander Yeryomenko, is injured and therefore was forced to withdraw from the event.

07 Jan 2014, 10:35 | Rouen wins Coupe de la Ligue

By winning 6-4 against underdog Chamonix in Meribel in front of 2500 spectators, the Rouen Dragons won 2013-14 French Coupe de la Ligue. It is the fourth cup for the club, and the second consecutive. Rouen forward Anthony Rech was named MVP of the final game.

06 Jan 2014, 09:35 | Groups for 2015 World Junior Championship

The 2015 IIHF World Junior Championship will be played in Toronto and Mointreal from 26 December 2014 to 5 January 2015. Based on the final rankings of the 2014 championship the groups are now decided:
Group A in Montreal
Finland (1), Canada (4), USA (5), Slovakia (8), Germany (9)
Group B in Toronto
Sweden (2), Russia (3), Czech Republic (6), Switzerland (7), Denmark (10)

05 Jan 2014, 12:06 | Pettersson suspended - will miss gold medal game

Sweden's Jesper Pettersson is suspended for leaving the penalty box to engage a Russian player after the final whistle of yesterday's World Juniors semi final where Sweden beat Russia 2-1.

02 Jan 2014, 23:23 | Important win for HV71

HV71 took two important points after a 4-3 OT win away at AIK. A hard blow for AIK who was the better team and had the lead 3-1 and also got a 4-3 goal disallowed. AIK is last (12th) in SHL, now five points behind HV71 who are in 10th place.

30 Dec 2013, 14:41 | Draisaitl suspended

Germany's captain Leon Draisaitl will be suspended for today's WJC game against the Czech Republic. He got a match penalty for a check in the back of American player Andrew Copp yesterday.

29 Dec 2013, 23:21 | Brandon Bochenski Finishes the Year as KHL’s Leading Goal Scorer

First-team KHL All-star and Barys Astana forward Brandon Bochenski will enter 2014 with the league lead in goals. He scored a hat trick against Admiral on 26 December, only to top that effort two days later with two goals and three assists against Amur. His 23 goals is a league best and 47 points is tied for second.

He was Eurohockey.com's November Player of the Month for similar performances. Our interview with Brandon Bochenski can be seen here (full audio/text summary).

29 Dec 2013, 19:10 | Plutnar under review

The IIHF Disciplinary Panel is conducting an official review of an incident in the Canada-Czech Republic game at the World Junior Championship in Malmö involving Czech defenceman Michal Plutnar who brought down linesman Eduard Metalnikov.

Update: Plutnar will be suspended for one game.