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21 Apr 2013, 02:28 | Belarus Cup renamed

Belarus Federation announces National Cup will be renamed "Ruslan Salei Cup" to honour former national team died in Yaroslav plane crash. The 2013 final will be played in brand new Chizhovka Arena, built in Minsk for 2014 World Championship

20 Apr 2013, 18:15 | Sweden won big in Germany

Sweden defeated Germany 8-0 in a friendly game in Krefeld. Sweden had 6-0 already after the first period and had eight different goal scorers. DEL top scorer Calle Ridderwall scored a goal in his first international game for Sweden.

17 Apr 2013, 10:45 | Cologne tie final series

In this year's DEL playoff final series Kölner Haie were able to tie the best-of-five series against Eisbären Berlin 1-1 with a 3-1 (2-1, 0-0, 1-0) win on the road. The series will continue with match #3 in Cologne on Friday.

16 Apr 2013, 15:47 | Vladimir Tsyplakov new Sports Director of Dinamo

Former player Vladimir Tsyplakov was named new Sports Director of Dinamo Minsk. After his player career, Tsyplakov leadled Belarus Junior team at the Universiade (silver medal in 2011). He worked as assistant coach in the national and youth team

16 Apr 2013, 15:31 | Martin Lacroix new coach at Bordeaux

Boredeaux Boxers announces the appointment of Canadian Martin Lacroix as new headcoach. Lacroix worked in last two seasons at Cergy.

15 Apr 2013, 15:29 | New coaches at Martigny and La Chaux-de-Fonds

Two NLB teams announces new coach for next season: Red Ice Martigny added a new Russian staff member besides former coach and now Sports Director Albert Malgin and Assistant Coach Igor Fedulov: new head coach is 53 years-old Petr Malkov, until January coach of Kuban Krasnodar in VHL.
La Chaux-de-Fonds hires Canadian Kevin Primeau as new Headcoach. He was fired in last October from Sapa Fehervar of EBEL

13 Apr 2013, 22:43 | Russia wins U19 tournament

The Russian U19 team won a 4-nations tournament in Trnava, Slovakia this week. They beat Czech Republic 3-1, Finland 5-3 and Slovakia 5-1.

12 Apr 2013, 17:59 | Mexican Federation has new Secretary

The Mexican Ice Hockey Federation has announced the appointment of Jorge Perez Alfaro as General Secretary, replacing Luis Olivares Torres. Alfaro was part of the Mexican Horse Riding Federation for many years and represented Mexico in international horse riding competitions. He owns a construction company and is part of a group that is building new ice hockey rinks in the country.

12 Apr 2013, 17:31 | Peteris Skudra is new Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod coach

Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod announces the appointment of Latvian Peteris Skudra as new head coach. Skudra was assistant coach last season at Sibir Novosibirsk

12 Apr 2013, 17:23 | New coaches at THK Tver

Alexei Zhdakhin is the new coach of VHL THK Tver. Vladimir Koltsov and Kiril Pafifov will be the assistants. Zhdakhin coached Yermak Angarsk in last 3 seasons. Koltsov was Tver head coach until last February when he was fired

11 Apr 2013, 16:09 | New leadership at the Ice Tigers

Nurnberg Ice Tigers will have a new management duo in the upcoming DEL season. Martin Jiranek is new sports director, while Christoph Sandner will assume the position of CEO.

As a Ice Tigers player, Jiranek still have the record of most games(493), goals (178) and assists (252) of the club where he played from 1996 to 2004 and in the 2006/07 season. Jiranek number 12 shirt was retired by Ice Tigers.

Christoph Sandner recently worked as Communication Manager for sports sponsoring company Thomas Sabo

10 Apr 2013, 17:31 | Baskent Yildizlari is Turkish League champion

Baskent Yildizlari from Ankara wins its third consecutive Turkish League title taking advantage of a strange play-offs format
For the playoffs, the top 4 teams in the league (Baskent, Izmir, Kocaeli, and Erzurum) keep the regular season points from the games between themselves. So Baskent had 18 points, Izmir had 12 points, and Kocaeli and Erzurum had 3 points each. Then every team plays each other twice, total of 6 games.
So Baskent only needed to win any 2 games and beat Izmir in one of the two games against them. If Baskent did and lost everything else, would be tied with Izmir, but win on the tie breaker of head to head total wins.
So on March 30th, Baskent played and beat Izmir 6-3 in Kocaeli. After that, none of the games actually mattered, including the last one, a kind of playoffs final, when Izmir beats Baskent 8-6

Baskent Slovakian forward Dennis Legersky was the League top scorer with 75 points (42 goals, 33 assists)

10 Apr 2013, 17:23 | Olimpija Ljubljana wins Slovenian title

By beating 4-1 and 3-2 Slavija, Olimpija Ljubljana wins its second consecutive Slovenian title.
check all Slovenian League stats here

10 Apr 2013, 14:45 | Langnau Tigers changes coaches

Down 2-1 in the promotion/relegation series against Lausanne, Langnau Tigers try a desperate move "freezing" coach Alex Reinhard and sending back to junior team assistant Konstantin Kurashev. Sport Director and former coach Jacob "Köbi" Kölliker will lead team in last games, assisted by Alfred Bohren.

10 Apr 2013, 14:41 | Aleksandr Godynyuk appointed Donbas junior team coach

Former Ukraine national team coach Aleksandr Godynyuk signed three-year contract with Donbas Donets'k to lead the new junior team that will compete in MHL next season. In last two seasons Godynyuk was on Sokil Kyiv bench.