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29 Nov 2020, 11:50 | Fastest Liiga goal

Markus Nurmi of TPS needed only four seconds to score on Ässät's young goalie Rasmus Korhonen for the fastest goal ever in the Finnish top league.

The game was the Liiga debut for the 18-year-old goalie.

Fastest Liiga goals:

4 seconds: Markus Nurmi, TPS / TPS-Ässät November 28 2020
5 seconds: Jari Laiho, Lukko / Lukko-Jokerit December 6 1979
5 seconds: Esa Välioja, Tappara / Tappara-Jokerit January 31 1982
5 seconds: Seppo Ahokainen, Tappara / Ilves-Tappara December 6 1983

Source: Iitalehti

11 Nov 2020, 21:50 | Swedish junior leagues are paused

The Swedish Ice Hockey Federation´s executive committee decided yesterday to pause league games for J20 National and J18 Regional due to increased spread of covid-19.

The decision applies from November 11 and at least until the turn of the year.

05 Nov 2020, 19:03 | Finland-Sweden games cancelled

Three U20 games between Finland and Sweden that were supposed to be played this week in Vierumäki have been cancelled after two Swedish players tested positive for Covid-19.

21 Oct 2020, 22:15 | Sergei Viter resigned as head coach of Ukraine

Sergei Viter resigned from the post of head coach of the Ukrainian national team following his appointment as HC Donbass Sport Director
Viter headed the national team from June 2019 when he replaced Andrei Sryubko.

20 Oct 2020, 21:38 | Kremenchuk win Ukranian League

Ukraine has finally a champion for 2019-2020 season: HC Kremenchuk win its first title by beating in a thrilling final series reigning champion Donbass Donets'k after seven games. A deflection by captain Nikolai Kiselev on Egor Seranov shot at 66:70 in the overtime gives Kremenchuk the decisive 3-2 victory. After two silver medals (2015 and 2017) and two bronze (2016 and 2019) finally the team from Poltava region can celebrate the title.
Ukranian league stopped during the playoffs last March due to the Covid-19 outbreak, to resume in September and stop again for several cases among players, before the final series.

12 Oct 2020, 22:56 | Kazakhstan and Bulgaria set new dates for leagues

Kazakhstan Federation set the begininng of the season for October 19, playing in six different cities without spectators.
Bulgaria postponed the start of League, originally scheduled for October 15, to October 29

03 Oct 2020, 19:48 | DEL postpones start of season

The start of the new season in the German top league DEL, scheduled for November, has been postponed again. It can start in the second half of December at the earliest.
The players' union is disappointed.

29 Sep 2020, 13:47 | Spengler Cup cancelled

As rumored in the last weeks, the 2020 Edition of Spengler Cup is cancelled. Travel restrictions and government decrees making the tournament unlikely.
This will be the 5th time - after 1939, 1940, 1949 and 1956 - that the traditional tournament in Davos, Switzerland will not take place.

20 Sep 2020, 13:44 | CG Puigcerdà win Spanish League

CG Puigcerda is Spanish champion, by beating in the playoffs finals reigning champion Txuri Urdin.
Federation suspended the playoffs after semifinals last March due to Covid outbreak but decided to complete the 2019-2020 season before the begin of new season.
Puigcerda won 5-2 game #1 last week and game #2 6-4 in San Sebastian winning a title that had been missing for 12 years. Txuri abdicate the crown after three consecutive triumphs. The Basque team suffered some key losses during the summer, when iconic goalie Ander Alcaine retired and Ander Arraras and Josh Gimenez signed for rival Puigcerdà.
The new Liga Nacional season will start next Saturday

17 Sep 2020, 21:23 | Kazakhstan League start postponed indefinitely

Due to the outbreak of coronavirus among the players of Barys Nur-Sultan the start of the championship of Kazakhstan has been postponed indefinitely. All clubs have been ordered to cancel all their trips.

This decision was made by the Ministry of Culture and Sports.
After the announcement of the new start date, an updated championship calendar will be presented.

17 Sep 2020, 16:08 | Coronavirus outbreak in Barys Nur-Sultan

The KHL regular championship match between Barys and Dinamo Riga, scheduled for September 18, will be postponed due to the outbreak of coronavirus in the Kazakh team.
The team was quarantined, and the KHL postponed six matches involving the team to a later date.

The press secretary of the club Yevgeny Akmanov told all the team members are asymptomatic, therefore, during the quarantine, everyone was sent home, but at the same time are under constant supervision of the medical headquarters.

The club hopes that everyone will soon get better, the team will continue to play in the KHL and this situation will not happen again, and the postponed matches, in agreement with the rivals, will be able to be held at a later date.

Relocation of the club to Russia is not currently being discussed, although it was considered before the start of the season.

14 Sep 2020, 13:07 | Arlan was saved and will compete in next Kazakhstan League

A couple of weeks ago, the club announced the dismantle of the team due to financial difficulties, but some days after the Department of Physical Culture and Sports of Akmola region made an official statement on the situation around Arlan.

"On September 4, a competition for the provision of services for the participation of a hockey team in republican and international competitions on behalf of the Akmola region ended. The winner of the competition was the ChU" Sports and Hockey Club "Astana-Baiterek". As a result of the competition, there was a saving of money.
At the same time, we would like to inform you that the hockey team will take part in the championship of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the name "Arlan". This condition is spelled out in the technical documentation of the competition."

07 Sep 2020, 19:35 | UPDATE: playoffs suspended in Ukraine

The Ukrainian Hockey League informs that the semi-final and final play-off series of the 2019/20 season has been suspended for at least two weeks due to the detection of COVID-19 in 19 Donbass hockey players and 2 players of Bilyỹ Bars Bila Tserkva. Also, tests for coronavirus were passed by Dnipro and Kremenchuk. Previously the League rescheduled the date for September 9-10

After retesting the playoff semi-finalist teams, the League will decide on the dates for the playoffs continuation

07 Sep 2020, 12:05 | Covid-19 stopped the semifinal series of the Ukrainian Hockey League

The playoff series of the Ukrainian Hockey League championship has been suspended due to the possible detection of COVID-19 in some hockey players after game #2 of the semifinals. between Donbas Donets'k and Dnipro Kherson and HC Kremenchuk and Bily Bars Bila Tserkva

All players have already been tested for coronavirus before the start of the playoff semi-finals in order to protect all participants in the process before the restart of the championship.

Players of all teams participating in the playoff semi-finals were retested and the new dates for the games are September 9 and 10

04 Sep 2020, 11:01 | South Africa withdraws U20 team

The South African Ice Hockey Federation has withdrawn its men's U20 national team from the 2021 IIHF Ice Hockey U20 World Championship Division III scheduled to take place in January in Mexico City due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The tournament will be played with five teams.