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28 Feb 2013, 19:38 | Donbass fire Supler

Ukrainian KHL newcomers Donbass Donetsk today fired their head coach Julius Supler as consequence of missing the playoffs. As interims coach his Supler's assistant Miroslav Miklosovic will serve for the rest of KHL's Cup of Hope.

28 Feb 2013, 00:41 | Bietigheim Steelers win DEB-Pokal

Last year's cup winners Bietigheim Steelers have defended their title with a 2-1 (0-0, 2-0, 0-1) on home ice in front of 3,500 fans against the Starbulls Rosenheim. Since 2009 the German cup competition is played with participants from 2. Bundesliga and Oberliga only due to lack of interest by the DEL teams.

28 Feb 2013, 00:40 | Hannover Indians file for insolvency

German 2. Bundesliga team Hannover Indians filed for insolvency. This was announced today by their manager Dirk Wroblewski. This means that the team is relegated to Oberliga, the third tier in German ice hockey. If the Indians finnish their league schedule is still not known and has to bedecided by the liquidator.

27 Feb 2013, 19:13 | MHL cancelled play-outs

The Board of MHL decided to cancel the play outs and made appropriate amendments to the regulations of the League.

Teams finished the regular season from 9th to last place in their conferences simply end season

27 Feb 2013, 00:27 | Pontebba relegated

By loosing 4-2 playouts game #4 against Fassa, Aquile Pontebba lost the series 4-0 and is relegated in Serie A2 after seven consecutive seasons in Serie A

25 Feb 2013, 16:01 | Finland’s young guns triumph

BRASOV - A robust team effort and inspiring goaltending prevailed over Russian skill at the final of the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOWF).

Stopping 47 of 49 shots, Finland relied on a quality performance from netminder Kaapo Kähkönen after a two-goal lead in the first period set them on the winning path against their neighbours to the east.

"It was our best game so far this season," said Rauli Urama, head coach of a Finland team born 1996 and later. "Having previously lost all our games against Russia this season, we now beat them in our fourth attempt because we played our own game and were all in this together as a team."

Thanks to double digit scorelines against hosts Romania and Czech Republic, Finland had enjoyed a relatively comfortable passage to the final of the ice hockey tournament during the eleventh European Youth Olympic Winter festival, held in Brasov at the foot of the Southern Carpathians in Romania.

Despite being outshot by Russia 20-7 in the opening period it was the Finns who twice got on the scoresheet going into the first intermission. Having been pulled down whilst through on goal, Antti Kalapudas scored Finland's first on a penalty shot 4:39 into the game before a Jere Huuhka pass from the blueline found Joona Jääskeläinen who steered the puck past Maksim Tretyak in the Russian net to double the lead at 11:11.

Russia, seeking revenge for last year's shootout defeat against the same opponents during the 2012 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck, got back into the game only 20 seconds in to the middle frame when captain Ivan Nikolishin, son of former Russia left winger Andrei, found Daniil Vovchenko on the powerplay to pull withing a goal in front of a full house of 2,000 spectators inside the Patinoarul Olimpic.

But the joy was shortlived as Finland's two goal lead was soon restored with Antti Kauppinen firing home a one-timer from the slot after fine work by Ville Vainola on the power play. Soon after a determined Sebastian Aho fought for a loose puck into the Russian net after 31:52 to make it 4-1, capping off a eventful week for the 15-year old Kärpat Oulu prospect who had been called in as a quick replacement following Manu Honkanen's concussion sustained during Finland's opening game of the tournament.

"I was just about going to bed at home when the coach called me from Romania to ask if I was ready to play. I packed my bags, got some rest on the plane down and then got ready to play," said Aho who grabbed the opportunity with both hands scoring four goals against Romania only hours following his arrival to Brasov.

Trailing with four goals to one, Russia came out to the third period with an all-out attack approach, peppering the Finnish goal with shots from every angle. Käkhönen capped an excellent game with a string of magnificent saves during a final frame which also saw Nikolishin hit the crossbar and an Eduard Nasybullin shot hit the post as Russia searched desperately for goals. In the end all they could muster up was a Alexander Protapovich power-play goal with less than two minutes remaining as Finland held on to lift the EYOWF-trophy at the end of the game.

"It was the end result of us having spent three week together. We were together for two weeks in Finland ahead of coming here and as we are building up the team one game at a time, winning this tournament is a good experience for the team," said Urama.

Final standings:
1. Finland
2. Russia
3. Switzerland
4. Czech Republic
5. Latvia
6. Romania

Best Players Selected by the Directorate
Goaltender: Attila Adorjan (Romania)
Defenseman: Miro Keskitalo (Finland)
Forward: Ivan Nikolishin (Russia)

24 Feb 2013, 19:36 | AIK missed chance to gain on playoff spot

AIK had the chance to close the gap to Brynäs who has the last playoff spot, but in today's only Elitserien game Frölunda won 5-3. The game was decided in the first period when Frölunda took a 3-0 lead.

23 Feb 2013, 22:56 | Nagano champions meet in Prague

Today, seventeen of twenty-two 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics gold medalist meet in Prague, Czech Republic, to remind the fifteen-years anniversary of the biggest Czech ice hockey success in history. The players went to the Olšany Cemetery to put down a wreath of flowers to the tomb of the 1998 Team Czech head coach Ivan Hlinka. Then they moved to the Veletržní Palác to see the exhibtion of the 1998 Nagano photographies. They also received replicas of their Nagano jerseys in gold colour and commemorative medals. The exhibition in the Veletržní Palác will be open to public on February 24. Then it will move to the Kinský Palace on the Prague's Old-Town Square to stay there until March 17, 2013.

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22 Feb 2013, 23:22 | EBEL playoffs pairs

After the last game of the intermediate round has been played, the top three seeded teams were able to choose their respective opponents in the playoffs. Vienna Capitals who were first picked Orli Znojmo as their opponent. Second seed Linz chose to play against Villach while Klagenfurt will play their rivals from Steyr, Graz 99ers. Medvescak was left with Red Bulls Salzburg. The playoffs begin Sunday at 17:30 all games at the same time.

22 Feb 2013, 18:56 | Vladivostok will have a team in KHL

Vyacheslav Fetisov assured that in the near future in Vladivostok will be the team of the Kontinental Hockey League.
"The decision to create a KHL team in Vladivostok was already taken, I hope it will be announced officially. I would set up a Far Eastern Division League, which would include teams from Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, as well as Japan, China and Korea.

22 Feb 2013, 17:14 | HK Astana changes coach

Vladimir Belyaev resigned as head coach of HK Astana, the new head coach of the Kazakh team will be former assistant Vladimir Strelchuk.

22 Feb 2013, 15:47 | KHL pays LEV Poprad debts

The Kontinental Hockey League and the KHL Players' Union have ensured that the players, coaches and staff of HC Lev Poprad have received the money owed to them for their work during the 2011/2012 season, when the now-extinct club had a team competing in the KHL Championship.
"The financial difficulties at Lev Poprad have been under the closest possible scrutiny by the League," - said KHL President Alexander Medvedev. "When it became clear that the club's owners were unable to meet their financial obligations to their players and staff, the League got together with the Players' Union to tackle the problems. After the formalities had been attended to, all outstanding payments owed to the players, coaches and staff of the club were paid in full. Despite the fact that the responsibility for making these payments rests with Lev Poprad's owners, we felt that we could not just stand aside, and we were guided by our concern that justice should prevail and these people must receive their hard-earned wages."

20 Feb 2013, 21:59 | Sabres fire coach Lindy Ruff

The Buffalo Sabres have fired coach Lindy Ruff. The announcement was made on the team's Twitter account and confirmed by Sabres spokesman Michael Gilbert.

20 Feb 2013, 20:29 | Kloten Flyers change their head coach

Swiss NLA club Kloten Flyers today fired their head coach Tomas Tamfal after the 2-4 derby loss against the ZSC Lions a day earlier. His substitute is already known - Kloten legend Felix Hollenstein. The change comes only four days after a huge 12-0 win against Rapperswil. Kloten has only two points more than 9th placed EHC Biel and Hollenstein has the task to make the playoffs with the team.

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