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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.

20 Feb 2013, 17:07 | Togliatti Arena ready in May

Finally Togliatti Arena should be inaugurated in late May: "the major works has been completed, it is expected that the facility will be completed by the end of May this year", said Director General of Stroykontrol Renal Myazitov. "We have adopted a hard schedule of works"
The project "Lada-Arena" is included in the comprehensive investment Togliatti modernization plan for 2010-2020.
Early last year, the contractor - the company "Avtozavodstroy" which began its work in February 2011 - stated that the facility will be put into operation in December 2012. However, in June, the date was postponed to March 2013.

20 Feb 2013, 17:00 | Belarus announces national team games

Belarus Hockey Federation announces the National Team games in preparation for World Championship: Andrei Skabelka troop will face Germany on 05 and 06 April in Minsk and Molodechno, Slovakia on 12 and 13 April in Minsk and Soligorsk (venue not yet confirmed) and then will play twice against Latvia on still unknown dates. Finally Belarus will compete in Skoda Cup

18 Feb 2013, 20:40 | MOL Liga Monday Night Recap - Miskolc Locks in 2nd Seed

All three teams with something to play for won tonight in MOL Liga action.  In the first game, ASC Corona Brasov shutout Ujpest TE 6-0.  Josh Bonar continued his strong season with a goal and three assists.  Levente Zsok added two goals and an assist, and Kevin Wehrs also scored one goal and added two assists.  Brasov remains three points out of a playoff spot with three games to play.

Miskolc Jegesmedvek easily handled Ferencvaros 7-2 and locked up the second seed for the playoffs.  This guaranttes them home-ice advantage in the first round.  Vladimir Dubek and Szabolcs Fodor each had two goals, and Martin Saluga added to his league leading scoring total with three assists.

Nove Zamky won a lopsided 6-1 victory over Dunaujvaros Acelbikak, one of the few in DAB Docler's amazing run his season.  Lubos Dobry had a goal and three assists on the evening and Miroslav Stefanka added two assists.  Nove Zamky holds the final spot of the playoffs by three points and is only two points away from moving into the third seed over HSC Csikszereda.

HSC Csikszereda did not play tonight, but lost the most ground with Nove Zamky and Brasov both winning.  On Friday, the two Romanian sides will play what is a must win game for both teams as Csikszereda, Brasov and Nove Zamky are all looking to clinch the final two playoff spots with three games left to play.

18 Feb 2013, 17:47 | Briançon wins Coupe de France

In a great atmosphere as usual at Paris Bercy, in front of 13.000 spectators, Briançon wins its second Coupe de France beating 2-1 Angers with two power play goals by Marc Andrè Bernier at 14:43 and Toby Lafrance at 23:13. Brian Henderson scored the only Angers goal at 26:49. Briançon goalie Ronan Quemener was elected MVP of the game.

18 Feb 2013, 16:13 | Silver Lions St. Petersburg scored 60 goals in a game

Russian team Silver Lions St. Petersburg set a memorable score crushing United Arab Emirates U17 team 60-0 during the Cup of the President of Turkmenistan, a junior tournament helding in Ashgabat.
UAE team previously suffered two other tough defeats against Belarusian Raubichi (0-22) and Turkmenstani team Oguzkhan (4-31). In the same tournament also Turkey U17 team suffered severe losses against Turkmenistani Galkan (21-0) and Russian Neftyanik Almetyevsk (32-0)

Khimik Voskresensk won the tournament beating 3-1 Oguzkhan

17 Feb 2013, 00:39 | Renon wins Italian Master Round

SV Renon wins Italian Master round and will play quarter finals against SG Cortina, finished 3rd in Relegation Round. Regular Season winner Val Pusteria will face Milano Rossoblu, while Alleghe - Valpellice and Bolzano - Asiago are the other quarter Finals. All aseries are best-of-seven.
Fassa and Aquile FVG Pontebba will play a relegation playout, also best of seven.
First game is scheduled for February 19.

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16 Feb 2013, 00:48 | Erik Karlsson finishes season

Ottawa Senators defenseman Erik Karlsson had season-ending injury and a surgery to repair his left Achilles after the tendon was cut by a skate blade during a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins

15 Feb 2013, 00:15 | PHL faces more problems

As the Second Phase of the PHL draws near (top 6 advance), Berkut who have already been crowned regular season Champions can't confirme their participation in the play-offs. Even with all reports of Kharkiv money problems and Levy L'viv, both clubs have confirmed to the league they will see this season to the end. Berkut however, who was just recently in the news for backed player wages up to 3 months has yet to get back to the league. Should Berkut fail to take part, Bila Tserkva will take the spot (they have been eliminated for weeks) and whoever wins will be named Champions of Ukraine.

13 Feb 2013, 00:06 | Gdansk has applied to join the KHL

As previously reported, today the Polish club Gdansk officially applied to join KHL. Representatives of the club provided a presentation of the project at KHL Commission, talking about the budget, the existing infrastructure in the city, the plans to implement a "vertical" system, including youth and junior teams (respectively in VHL and MHL), and the intention to form a team with the best Polish players playing home games not only in Gdansk - in the 11.000 spectators arena - but also in several other cities.
In the near future a special KHL Commission visit Gdansk and examine the existing infrastructure in the city, ice arena, sports and economic aspects of the project.
Within 30 April the club will provide the full set of documents and guarantees for the entry in the KHL.

12 Feb 2013, 15:57 | NLB All-Star team

The first NLB All-Star Team was elected this week.
The players were initially selected by an online vote, then the Sports Directors, the head coaches, the captain and a media determined by the club could choose their favorite players except players from their own club.

The winners in the five categories are:

Best goalkeeper: Marc Eichmann, SC Langenthal
Best Defender: Sami El Assaoui, HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
Best Forward: Marco Truttmann, HC Olten
Best coach: January Tlacil, HC Ajoie
MVP: James Desmarais, HC Ajoie

12 Feb 2013, 09:57 | Lightning-Bruins game rescheduled in April

The snowed-out game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins, originally to be played on Saturday, has been rescheduled for Thursday, April 25.

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