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21 Jan 2013, 23:35 | HIFK fires Pasi Sormunen

HIFK in Finnish SM-Liiga fired head coach Pasi Sormunen and assistant coach Antti Pennanen. They will be replaced with Raimo Summanen and the junior coach Joonas Tanska as his assistant. Jan Lundell will continue as goalie coach.

20 Jan 2013, 18:50 | Patriot Budapest towards withdrawal from MHL

Patriot Budapest, due to financial problems can't show up to the match against MHK Khimik Voskresensk. Do not rule out the possibility the Hungarian team comes off the league.

"Our sponsor owes the insurance company for the past years. So currently we have no insurance for the players, no medical personnel. In this situation, we have decided not to go to Voskresensk. Almost all of our players are EU citizens, so they need an insurance. Can you imagine what would happen if something happens in Russia!", said team manager Alexander Khrapak.
"Our players didn't receive salary for four months. Anyway we play. But if in the near future the situation will not change, probably have to be withdrawn from the league" - Khrapak added.

20 Jan 2013, 17:41 | Season’s second switch of coaches in Pardubice

Miloš Říha replaced Mojmír Trličík in position of Pardubice's head coach. Together with Trličík also Ladislav Lubina, his assistant, leaves currently the eleventh team of the Czech Extraliga peloton. The function of Říha's assitant will be held by David Pospíšil, former assitant coach of Hradec Králové. Pardubice started the season with Pavel Hynek as the head coach so Miloš Říha is the club's third bench leader of currently running season. Trličík after being kicked out from Vítkovice in early November now gets his second walking papers in the season.

20 Jan 2013, 10:55 | Marco Bührer sets a new record

SC Bern goalie Marco Bührer breaks the record of goalkeeper invincibility in the Swiss National League suffering a goal after 269 minutes and 09 seconds by Kloten Flyers' Samuel Walser. The previous record - 248 minutes and 10 seconds - belongs to Cristobal Huet, set in 1999 when he played for Lugano.

20 Jan 2013, 10:40 | Zauralie coach resigned

Zauralie Kurgan coach Vladimir Shikhanov and assistant Yuri Mordvintsev wrote a letter of resignation accepted by the club, currently 25th in VHL. Igor Velcker, coaxch of Zauralie Junior in MHL, was appointed as interim coach. Shikhanov worked at Zauralie in last four years

19 Jan 2013, 16:57 | Tärnström retired

AIK's defender Dick Tärnström has been forced retired after problems with his back. Tärnström has played 14 seasons with AIK and also had a long career in the NHL.

19 Jan 2013, 09:50 | France lost Guttig

Team France won't count on Anthony Guttig on Olympic Qualifications tournament in Riga. Tranas forward suffered a knee ligament injury and will be out for about four weeks

18 Jan 2013, 22:46 | Islanders suspend Lubomir Visnovsky

New York Islanders announced that club has officially suspended defenseman Lubomir Visnovsky after he has not arrived for training camp. Visnovsky has tried to remain with his European club, Slovan Bratislava, despite a rule prohibiting that. The NHL and KHL have an agreement that any player with an NHL contract must return to his club once the lockout is lifted. The KHL is complying and won't let Visnovsky play in Russia now that the lockout has ended.

18 Jan 2013, 19:47 | Czech Extraliga shows up two hattricks

Lukáš Klimek scored three goals during today's game of the 35th Czech Extraliga round between Zlín and Vítkovice. Thanks to its 26-year forward HC Vítkovice Steel fed its tie hopes until the game's very ending. However in time 59.05 Čajánek scored an empty net goal to make the final score a 5-3 victory for Zlín. In another game of the day Lukáš Krenželok scored three Slavia's goals to win surprisingly 2-4 at home of the fearless Czech Extraliga standings leader Plzeň. Accidentaly both hattrick scorers of the round grew up in the team of Vítkovice.

18 Jan 2013, 19:07 | Slipčenko to share a net with recent rival

Robert Slipčenko moves across Slovak Extraliga clubs. A former goalie of Bánská Bystrica goes to play for Poprad. Now Slipčenko is about to share a net with Dušan Sidor with whom he had a fight during recent Poprad game at Bánská Bystrica. The incident cost Slipčenko a 6-games long disciplinary penalty for starting the fight and a €340 fare from his former club.

17 Jan 2013, 23:54 | Belarusian Federation bans Brest Ice Palace

HK Brest lost the right to play in the Brest ice palace and was fined by Belarusian Federation due the poor quality of ice with a rough surface, the insufficient marking of the lines on ice - in some cases non-existent - the levels of air pollution by exhaust gases. Furthermore, referees and staff of visiting teams have repeatedly drawn attention to the leaders of the Ice Palace on the above drawbacks.
However, despite assurances from the leaders of HK Brest to eliminate the drawbacks to January 10, the further games show the failure to properly prepare the ice arena for the championship matches.
Thus, the Disciplinary Committee decided to fine the club and to postpone the next two home games of Open League and to transfer the following ones to other arenas.

16 Jan 2013, 23:37 | SAry Arka record ends

Loosing 4-3 at SO against Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, VHL leader Sary Arka Karaganda stops a record of 23 winning streak games

16 Jan 2013, 18:44 | Geleen Eaters averted bankruptcy

Geleen Eaters has a victory on the road to a financially stable future.
The attempt by the Tax Foundation to file for insolvency by was rejected by the court.
As reported in a press release, the club itself calls it "a first small success" in the fight against the tax and for survival. "The board is behind the scenes working on finding a permanent solution and, supported by this success, confident that they come out of this situation." said the release

16 Jan 2013, 16:12 | Paul Gardner on Clan bench

Braehead Clan announces Canadian Paul Gardner as new head coach. He replaced resigned Jordan Krestanovich. Gardner, 56, was assistant coach at the Nashville Predators, as well as being head coach in the AHL, CHL, Hamburg Freezers in the DEL and Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in KHL.

16 Jan 2013, 11:53 | Roger Rönnberg - Robert Ohlsson will coach Frölunda next season

Sweden U20 coaching duo Roger Rönnberg and Robert Ohlsson will lead Frolunda in next Elitserien as headcoach and assistant respectively
Current assistant coach Christian Lechtaler will be the new Sport Director. Rönnberg and Ohlsson worked in Sweden U20 in last three season winning a gold and a silver medal at WJC